Papers of interest

Interesting papers on emission line gas physics

Author Title Journal Comments
Baldwin J.A., Phillips M.M., Terlevich R. "Classification parameters for the emission-line spectra of extragalactic objects" 1981 PASP 93 5
1981 PASP 93 817
BPT diagrams
And a short Erratum
Veilleux & Osterbrock "Spectral classification of emission-line galaxies" 1987 ApJS 63 295
Kewley L. J., Dopita M.A., Sutherland R.S., Heisler C.A. & Trevena J.
"Theoretical Modeling of Starburst Galaxies" 2001 ApJ 556 121 Alternate classification  diagrams
Kewley L.J., Geller M.J., Jansen R.A.
"[O II] as a Star Formation Rate Indicator"
2004 AJ 127 2002
Shull, J. M.; McKee, C. F. "Theoretical models of interstellar shocks. I - Radiative transfer and UV precursors" 1979 ApJ 227 131S One of the staples of it's field
Kewley & Dopita "Using Strong Lines to Estimate Abundances in Extragalactic H II Regions and Starburst Galaxies" 2002 ApJS 142 35 Abundance measurse from common optical emission lines
Mathis

Reynolds, Hausen, Tufte and Haffner



Field & Steigman


"Ionization correction factors for low-excitation gaseous nebulae"

"Detection of [O i] lambda 6300 Emission from the Diffuse Interstellar Medium"

"Charge Transfer and Ionization Equilibrium in the Interstellar Medium"
1985 ApJ 291 247


1998 ApJ 494L 99



1971 ApJ 166 59
Oi and Ha charge exchange, among other things...

"Charge Transfer and Ionization Equilibrium in the Interstellar Medium"
1971 ApJ 166 59

Interesting papers on astronomical calcualtions

Author Title Journal Comments
Hogg D.W.
"Distance measures in cosmology" arXiv:astro-ph/9905116v4 see also Ned Wrights CosmoCalc page :
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html
Hogg. D.W, Baldry I.K., Blanton M.R. and Eisenstien D.J.
"The K correction" arXiv:astro-ph/0210394v1
Danese L., de Zotti G. and di Tullio G. "On velocity dispersions of galaxies in rich clusters" 1980 A&A 82 322 Correcting the velocity dispersion estimate for a sample of galaxies where each galaxy has a known experimental error in it's velocity meaasure. 

Interesting papers on Astronomical data processing and Astronomical techniques

Author Title Journal Comments
Moffat A.F.J. "A Theoretical Investigation of Focal Stellar Images in the Photographic Emulsion and Application to Photographic Photometry" 1969 A&A 3 455 Moffat profiles...
Fruchter A.S. and Hook R.N. "Drizzle: A Method for the Linear Reconstruction of Undersampled Images" 2002 PASP 114 144 Drizzling
Fixsen D.J, Offenber J.D & Hanisch R.J. et al. "Cosmic-Ray Rejection and Readout Efficiency for Large-Area Arrays" 2000 PASP 112 1350 Good description of the trade offs between Fowler sampling and Up-the-Ramp
van Dokkum P.G. "Cosmic-Ray Rejection by Laplacian Edge Detection" 2001 PASP 113 1420



Newman P.R. "Positioning Errors and Efficiency in Fiber Spectrographs" 2002 PASP 114 918 Excellent discussion of the effects of putting your fibres in the wrong place, and just how serious the errors can be.
Donnelly R.H., Brodie J.P., Bixler J.V. and Hailey C.J. "The implications of atmospheric effects for fibre-fed spectroscopy" 1989 PASP 101 1046
Vaduvescu O. & McCall M.L.

"Strategies for Imaging Faint Extended Sources in the Near-Infrared" 2004 PASP 116 640 A very accessible introduction to IR imaging.  Much of it seems a little obvious, but it's good to see it presented in a coherent document.
Rector T.A., Levay Z.G., Frattare L.M., English J. and Pu'uohau-Pummill K. "Image-processing Techniques for the creation of presentation-auality astronomical images" AJ 133 598
Davis R.I "A method to remove residual OH emission from near-infrared spectra" 2007 MNRAS 375 1099
Anderson J. and King I.R. "Toward High-Precision Astrometry with WFPC2. I. Deriving an Accurate Point-Spread Function" 2000 PASP 112 1360
Trujillo I., Aguerri A., Cepa  J. and Gutierrez C.M. The effects of seeing on Sersic profiles. II. The Moffat PSF astro-ph/0109067,
2001MNRAS.328..977T
2001MNRAS.321..269T
Chiarella C. and Reichel A. On the evaluation of Voigt spectral line functions 1996 MNRAS 134 83 Early paper
Zaghloul M.R. On the calculation of the Voigt ilne profile 2007 MNRAS
Garcia T.T. Voigt profile fitting to quasar absorption lines 2006 MNRAS 369 2025
2007 MNRAS 382 1375
Note - error and errata
Horne K. An optimal extraction algorithm for CCD spectroscopy PASP 1986 98 609 An excelent discussion of optimal extraction of CCD spectroscopy
Wild V. & Hewett P.C Peering through the OH forest: a new technique to remove residual sky features from Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra 2005 MNRAS 358 1083 PCA sky subtraction for SDSS data

Interesting papers on high resolution imaging

Author Title Journal Comments
Renzini A. "The Stellar Populations of Pixels and Frames" 1998 AJ 115 2459
Olsen K.A.G., Blum R.D., Stephens A.W et al.
"The Star Formation Histories of the Bulge and Disk of M31 from Resolved Stars in the Near-Infrared" 2006AJ....132..271O