Web links
Updated 2024 November 6
Astrobiology
Coursera https://www.coursera.org/
– Astrobiology and the search for extra-terrestrial life
Coursera Astrobiology: Exploring other worlds
Coursera Emergence of life
European Astrobiology Institute http://europeanastrobiology.eu/
Heidelberg Initiative for the Origins of Life (HIFOL)
IAU online courses in astrobiology http://astrobiovideo.com/en/search#en
NASA https://www.nasa.gov/
– Astrobiology at NASA https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/
– NASA Astrobiology Institute https://nai.nasa.gov/
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory
UK Centre For Astrobiology https://www.astrobiology.ac.uk/
Citizen science and Amateur Astronomy projects
Exoplanet Explorers https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ianc2/exoplanet-explorers
Planet Hunters TESS https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/nora-dot-eisner/planet-hunters-tess
The Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project
Zooniverse project – Are we alone in the universe?
Data
AAVSO https://www.aavso.org/
– AAVSO Exoplanet Section https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-section
– AAVSO to archive amateur astronomer exoplanet data https://www.aavso.org/exoplanet-data
– AAVSO Target Tool https://filtergraph.com/aavso/default/index?exo=on&settype=true
BAA Photometry Database https://britastro.org/photdb/
Catalogue of Circumstellar Disks
Catalogue of exoplanets in binary star systems https://www.univie.ac.at/adg/schwarz/multiple.html
Catalogue of known transiting exoplanets http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/~jkt/tepcat/html-catalogue.html
Czech Astronomical Society https://www.astro.cz/
– Variable Star and Exoplanet Section http://var2.astro.cz/EN/index.php
– Transiting Exoplanets and Candidates (TRESCA) http://var2.astro.cz/tresca/?lang=en
Exo-Mercat http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/systems/?filters=multistar
Exoplanets.org http://exoplanets.org/
Exoplanet Exploration – Planets Beyond Our Solar System
Exoplanet Transit Database (ETD) http://var2.astro.cz/ETD/archive.php
Find Exoplanet Transits https://astro.swarthmore.edu/transits.cgi
Habitable Zone Gallery http://www.hzgallery.org/
NASA Exoplanet Archive https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html
NASA Exoplanet Science Institute
Planetary Habitability Laboratory http://phl.upr.edu/home
– Habitable Exoplanets Catalogue http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia http://exoplanet.eu/
Education
AAVSO – Carolyn Hurless Online Institute for Continuing Education (CHOICE) https://www.aavso.org/carolyn-hurless-online-institute-continuing-education-choice
Coursera https://www.coursera.org/
– Imagining other Earths https://www.coursera.org/learn/life-on-other-planets
– Astrophysics: Exploring Exoplanets https://www.edx.org/course/astrophysics-exploring-exoplanets-anux-anu-astro2x-1
Future Learn https://www.futurelearn.com/
– How to survive on Mars https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/survive-mars
IAU online courses in astrobiology http://astrobiovideo.com/en/search#en
Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/
– Astronomy with an online telescope
– Exoplanets and planetary physics
– Exoplanet research at the Open University
– S382 Astrophysics
Part 1, Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
Part 2, Astrophysical Data Analysis
Part 3, Transiting Exoplanets (Based around the book ‘Transiting Exoplanets’ by Carole Haswell)
Swinburne University of Technology
Planet Formation:Disk Formation and Evolution (Presentation)
University of California, Berkeley
Protoplanetary Disks: Updates from Observations (Presentation)
Gravitational microlensing
ASASSN – All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae
BHTOM
‘Detecting Exoplanets by Gravitational Microlensing using a Small Telescope’ by Grant Christie
Gravitational Microlensing (Wikipedia)
Institute of Astrometry University of Cambridge Gaia Photometric Science Alerts
Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMT)
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE)
Las Cumbres Observatory Microlensing Observing Platform
MicroFun – http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~microfun/
Microlensing Searches for ExoplanetsMicrolensing Searches for Exoplanets
Microlensing Source
The Use of High-Magnification Microlensing Events in Discovering Extrasolar Planets
Transient Name Server
Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)
Meeting reports and videos
BAA Summer Meeting held at the University of Warwick 2018 July 7
The following videos can be viewed at https://britastro.org/video
– Chemical composition of planets in our galaxy; Prof. Giovanna Tinetti
– Exploring Mars; Prof. John Bridges
– The final fate of planetary systems: Prof. Boris Gaensicke
CNET – Welcome to Mars series
A series exploring the red planet
EuroPlanet Science Conference 2020 Sep 21 – Oct 9
Citizen Scientist Participation in Transiting Exoplanet Science; Mark Salisbury
– Access Session ODAA scroll down and click on video link
Amateur Participation in the ExoClock Project; Martin Crow (starts at 61 mins)
Transit Timing Variations http://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2012/talks/TTV_Fabrycky.pdf
Adventures with a robotic telescope – from supernovae to exoplanets; Martin J. F. Fowler at the BAA meeting held on 2019 March 27th https://britastro.org/video/14934/17688
Observers/Observatories/Projects/Surveys
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/home/
Christian Buil http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/index.html
Dennis Conti http://astrodennis.com/
HATNet Exoplanet Survey https://hatnet.org/
KELT North http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/keltnorth/Method.html
KELT South https://my.vanderbilt.edu/keltsouth/telescope/
LOFAR Transients Key Project https://www.transientskp.org/science/planets/
Montcabrer Observatory MPC 213 http://cometas.sytes.net/
– Exoplanets http://cometas.sytes.net/extrasolares/extrasolares.htm
Microlensing Follow-Up Network (MicroFun) http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~microfun/
Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) https://www.ngtransits.org/
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl/
Extrasolar planet events can be accessed via Main OGLE results/Extrasolar planets
Project PANOPTES https://projectpanoptes.org/
Project Argus http://www.setileague.org/argus/index.html
Spectro Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research instrument (SPHERE) https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/vlt-instr/sphere/
SuperWASP https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/SuperWASPMission.html
University of Exeter – Extrasolar planets
Robin Leadbetter http://www.threehillsobservatory.co.uk/astro/astro.htm
– Exoplanet transit http://www.threehillsobservatory.co.uk/astro/TrES_1.htm
Organisations
Berkeley SETI Research Center https://seti.berkeley.edu/
– SETI@home https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
– Breakthrough Listen https://seti.berkeley.edu/listen/
– SERENDIP https://seti.berkeley.edu/SERENDIP.html
– Astropulse http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ap_info.php
Breakthrough Initiatives https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/
– Breakthrough Listen http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/1
– Breakthrough Message http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/2
– Breakthrough Watch http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/4
– Breakthrough Starshot http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3
British Interplanetary Society https://www.bis-space.com/
Cambridge Exoplanet Research Centre
Centre for Exoplanet Science https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/exoplanets/index.html
ETHzurich Exoplanets and Habitability Group
European Space Agency
– Terrae Novae 2030+ – ESA’s exploration roadmap
Hampshire Astronomical Group https://hantsastro.org.uk/
Icarus Interstellar http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/
Initiative for Interstellar Studies https://i4is.org/
Institute for Research on Exoplanets, University of Montreal
International Academy of Astronautics – SETI Permanent Committee
International Astronomical Union (IAU) https://www.iau.org/
– Division F Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/divisions/F/
– F2 – Commission F2 Exoplanets and the Solar System https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/F2/
– F3 – Commission F3 Astrobiology https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/F3/ http://www.scifac.hku.hk/kwok/iaucf3/
NASA https://www.nasa.gov/
– NASA Exoplanet Exploration https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/
– Astrobiology at NASA https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/
– NASA Astrobiology Institute https://nai.nasa.gov/
– Innovative Advanced Concepts Program
Planetary Society http://www.planetary.org/
– Exoplanets http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/exoplanets/
– SETI http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/seti/
– Optical SETI (OSETI) http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/seti/optical-seti.html
– Lightsail http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/lightsail-solar-sailing/
– SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/
– Planetary Radio
SETI League http://www.setileague.org/
Space Telescopes Advanced Research Group on the Atmospheres of Transiting Exoplanets – STARGATE
The Astronomer http://www.theastronomer.org/
The Tau Zero Foundation https://tauzero.aero/
UAI Exoplanet website http://exphem.uai.it/
UK Centre For Astrobiology https://www.astrobiology.ac.uk/
University of Central Lancashire
– Jerimiah Horrocks Institute
– Stellar Astrophysics
– Star Formation and Exoplanets
People
Charles Cockell https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/people/charles-cockell
Sarah Rugheimer https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-sarah-rugheimer
Sara Seager https://www.saraseager.com/
Giovanna Tinetti https://www.ucl.ac.uk/astrophysics/people/giovanna-tinetti
Paul Anthony Wilson https://www.paulanthonywilson.com/blog/
Privateers
SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/
Blue Origin https://www.blueorigin.com/
Mars One https://www.mars-one.com/
PTScientists https://ptscientists.com/
Stratolaunch https://www.stratolaunch.com/
Virgin Galactic https://www.virgingalactic.com/
Virgin Orbit https://virginorbit.com/
Remote/Robotic telescopes
MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope Network
telescope.org
Note that this is an Open University facility and use requires attendance on an Open University course
Software
AstroImageJ https://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astroimagej/
AIP4WIN http://www.willbell.com/aip/index.htm
Peranso Light curve and Period analysis software
Project Pluto, Guide https://www.projectpluto.com/
Stellarium http://stellarium.org/en_GB/
Space observatories and space missions
Ariel Space Mission
– Exoworldsspies https://exoworldsspies.com/
– ExoClock project
CHaracterising ExOplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) https://cheops.unibe.ch/
Chinese ‘Earth II’ Exoplanet Observatory
Gaia http://sci.esa.int/gaia/
– Exoplanets http://sci.esa.int/gaia/58784-exoplanets/
Great Observatory for Long Wavelengths (GO-LoW)
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Kepler and K2 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html
MEarth Project https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/MEarth/Welcome.html
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (previously known as WFIRST)
Next-Generation Transit Survey https://www.ngtransits.org/
Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) http://sci.esa.int/plato/
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) https://www.nasa.gov/tess-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite
– TESS Follow-Up Program (TFOP) https://tess.mit.edu/followup/
Blue Skies Space Ltd http://www.blueskiesspace.co.uk/
– Twinkle
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