Links and Etc.


Links
Current Collaborators
Scott Kenyon
George Rieke
Casey Lisse
Yoichi Itoh
Marc Kuchner
Zoltan Balog
Jesus Hernandez
Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar
Peter Plavchan
Jonathan Irwin


Institutions
NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center Astrophysics Division
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Harvard Astronomy Department
UCLA Astronomy Division
Steward Observatory/U. Arizona Astronomy Department


Telescopes/Observatories I Use
Spitzer (SSC)
Subaru Telescope
MMT Observatory
Fred. L. Whipple Observatory (Mt. Hopkins)


Resources
Digitized Sky Survey (where is your source)
2MASS Image Service (what does it look like in the IR)
Target Visibility (when can you see your source)
Simbad Astronomical Database (what do we know about your source)
Stellar Isochrones from Baraffe et al. (0.02-1.4 solar masses)
Stellar Isochrones from Siess et al. (wider mass range)
Grid of SED Models for Circumstellar Disks (T. Robitaille)
LaTeX cheat sheet

Etc.
Daily Reading
(research)
Astro-Ph
(blogs)
Cosmic Variance (Sean Carroll, etc.)
The Dynamics of Cats (Steinn Sigurdsson)
The Reference Frame (Lubos Motl)

Systemic (Greg Laughlin's planet blog)


Time Wasters

Random Post-Modernist Essay Generator
(my favorite so far)

The best prank EVER
Music!
(currently listening to ...)
Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport
...and
Classical
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa (Ulster Orchestra; T. Yuasa)
W. A. Mozart - Symphony 37 (The Academy of Ancient Music; C. Hogwood/J. Schroder)
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos (Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment)
If you like ambient/electronic music check out ...
Pete Namlook (ambient/electronic composer)
If you have some classical/electronic suggestions then pass then along!


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