Resources

Handy links & papers.

Asymptotic giant branch stars

• The Dawes Review 2: Nucleosynthesis and Stellar Yields of Low- and Intermediate-Mass Single Stars (Karakas & Lattanzio, 2014)
• Mass loss of stars on the asymptotic giant branch. Mechanisms, models and measurements (Höfner & Olofsson, 2018)

Variable stars

• The International Variable Star Index (VSX)

Some light curve databases for variable stars.

• AAVSO Light curve generator
• ASAS
• ASAS-SN Sky Patrol V1.0 (V-band)
• ASAS-SN Sky Patrol V2.0 (V- & g-band)
• Fink Science Portal (ZTF & LSST)
• Kamogata/Kiso/Kyoto Wise-field Survey (KWS)
• OGLE III
• OGLE IV (Miras)

Astrophysical time series

• Understanding the Lomb-Scargle Periodogram (VanderPlas, 2018)
• celerite2 docs, original celerite paper (Foreman-Mackey et al., 2017)
• A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes (Görtler et al.)

Miscellaneous

• AAT Skycam
• Colourful Nuclide Chart by Dr. Ed Simpson
• John Lattanzio’s Stellar Evolution Website
• nested