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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 | ||
| 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 | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |