Core List of Astronomy Books
Compiled by~
Liz Bryson, (Project Coordinator), Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
Corp., Kamuela, HI.
Diane Fortner, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley,
CA.
Randall Halverson, Purdue University, Indiana University
Indianapolis (IUPUI), IN
Barbara Kern,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Victoria Mitchell, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Madeleine Needles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Haystack Observatory,
Westford, MA.
Amy Saxton, Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, HI.
Judie Triplehorn, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK.
Copyright© 2000 CFHT – Canada
France Hawaii Telescope
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Brief
Explanation of the Project
Seal and Martin's A bibliography of astronomy, 1970-1979 is the last known major undertaking of this kind. These Core Lists of books in astronomy are intended to assist librarians and collection development librarians in building astrophysics collections. Our list also attempts to serve as a resource for researchers and as a guide to teaching faculty in selecting available course readings. The focus of the list is comprised of seven major categories: Abstracts and Indexes, Atlases and Catalogs, Bibliographies, Directories and Encyclopedias, Handbooks and Yearbooks, Texts and Textbooks. Each category consists of several book titles, and in some instances we have provided internet links to non-profit sites. This year we have removed books that were listed as out-of-print; however, Liz Bryson will maintain a separate list that you may request from her via email. We plan on updating this list every two years and ask that any feedback or comments be submitted on the attached survey or forwarded to Liz Bryson, bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu
Astronomy – General and Introductory
Practical and Spherical Astronomy
Theoretical Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics
Non-optical Methods of Astronomy
Descriptive Astronomy – Solar System
Descriptive Astronomy – Planets
Descriptive Astronomy – Galaxies
Radiation Physics – Cosmic Rays
ABSTRACTS AND INDEXES
ARIBIB: ARI Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References. Heidelberg, Germany:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut. Retrieved July 9,2003 from:
http://www.ari.uni-heid e lberg.de/aribib/ .
For the literature from 1969-2000, the ARIBIB is based on the information in
Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts. For the older literature from 1899 until 1968, it is based on
Astronomischer Jahresbericht. For the old literature from ancient epochs until about 1880, it is
based on bibliographies published by J. C. Houzeau & A. Lancaster (1882) and by J. J. de Lalande (1803).
arXiv.org e-Print archive. (1991-). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University . Retrieved July 9, 2003,
from: http://www.arxiv.org/ .
Includes, among numerous disciplines, astronomical preprints submitted to the astro-ph archive
since April 1992. Daily postings of new papers e-mailed upon request. The database is searchable
by author, title and abstract keyword and full-text is available.
Astronomischer Jahresbericht (AJB). (1899-1968). Berlin: G. Reimer. Retrieved July 9, 2003,
from: htt p://www.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/publikationen/ajb/ .
Contains GIF images of AJB 1(1899)- 68(1968). The author index and
chapter titles of all the AJB volumes can be searched online in ARIBIB database.
Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts. (1969-2001). Berlin: Springer. Retrieved July 9, 2003,
from: http://www.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/publikationen/aaa/ .
INSPEC. (1968-). [s. l.]: The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE).
Citations and abstracts for physics, computer science, and electronics literature.
Available through a variety
of commercial interfaces, e.g. the Institute of Physics’ Axiom.
The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics. Retrieved July 9, 2003 from: ht tp://adswww. har vard.edu/ .
ADS maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 2.5 million
records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics,
and preprints in Astronomy. It also provides access and pointers to a wealth of external
resources, including full-text journal articles, data catalogs and archives.
University of Chicago Press AAS Yellow Pages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved
July 9, 2003 from: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AAS/ypages/yp.html
Advance title
list of articles submitted to the journals of the American Astronomical
Society.
ATLASES AND CATALOGS
Abell, G. O., Corwin, H. G., & Olowin, R. P. (1989). A catalog of rich clusters of galaxies .
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 70 (1), 1-138.
Also available online with known errata corrected at
http://sp ider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/hgcjr/
Astrographic catalogue and AC 2000.2. Washington, DC: U.S. Naval Observatory.
Retrieved September 25, 2003, from: http://ad.usno.navy.mil/ac/ .
Astronomical Data Center: access to
astronomy data and catalogs. [s.
l.]: NASA.
Retrieved September 25, 2003, from: http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
CDS service for astronomical catalogues . Strasbourg: Astronomical Data Center (CDS).
Retrieved September 26, 2003, from: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cats/Cats.htx
As of May 2002, provides access to "4367 catalogues…of which 3692 are available online"
(as full ASCII or FITS files).”
Center for History of Physics. [s. l.]: American Institute of Physics. Retrieved September 26, 2003,
from: http://www.aip.org/history/
Online version of the International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences (ICOS).
Corwin, H. G., Vaucouleurs,
A. de, & Vaucouleurs, G. H. de. (1985). A
southern galaxy
catalogue: a catalogue of 5481 galaxies south of declination -17 degrees
found on 1.2-m
U.K. Schmidt IIIa-J plates. Austin: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin.
Also available online with known errata corrected at:
http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/hgcjr/
Dibon-Smith, R. (1992). StarList 2000: a quick reference star catalog for astronomers . New
York: Wiley.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1992QB65.D53.......
Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). (1996). [Washington, DC]: Association of Universities for Research
in Astronomy; San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Retrieved May 21,
2002, from: http://archive.stsci.edu/dss
Photographic archive of the National Geographic Society-Palomar Observatory
Sky Survey (a survey of the northern sky). The data are also available in CD-ROM
format: RealSky CD: The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey on 9 CD-ROMs.
Dreyer, J. L. E., & Sinnott, R. W. (1988). NGC 2000.0: complete new general catalogue and
index: catalogues of nebulae and star clusters. Cambridge, MA: Sky Publishing.
Greeley, R., &
Batson, R. M. (1997). The NASA atlas of the solar system. Cambridge:
Cambridge
University Press.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1997nass.book.....G
Hoffleit, D., & Jaschek, C. (1982).
The bright star catalogue (4th rev. ed.). New Haven: Yale
University. Department of Astronomy.
Hogner, W., & Richter, O. G. (1979). Isophotometric atlas of comets (Vols. 1-2). New York:
Springer.
Jones, K. G. (1991). Messier’s nebulae and star clusters (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge
University Press.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1991msns.book.....
Kepple, G. R., & Sanner, G. W. (1998). The night sky observer’s guide (Vols. 1-2). Richmond,
VA: Willmann-Bell.
Kholopov, P. N., & Samus, N. N. (Eds.). (1985-1995). General catalog of variable stars (4th ed.,
Vols. 1-5). Cambridge, MA: American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO).
As of May 2002, five volumes of this edition of the General catalogue of variable stars
have been published. The
AAVSO has volumes 3, 4, and 5 for sale.
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=II/214A
Moore, P., & Hunt, G. (1997). Atlas of the solar system
(Rev. ed.). London : Chancellor Press.
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
California Institute of Technology.
Retrieved September 26, 2003, from: http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/
As of September, access was provided to:
· 10.6 million names
· 7.4 million objects
· 2.2 million references to 53,500 papers
· 20.3 million photometric measurements
Norton, A. P., &
Ridpath, I. (Eds.). (1998). Norton's star atlas
and reference handbook (epoch
2000.0) (19 th ed.). Harlow,
England: Longman.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1998nsar.book......
RealSky South: The Digitized Southern Sky Survey on
11 CD-ROM. (1997).
[Washington, DC]: San Francisco, CA: Association
of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.;
Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
The data are also available in CD-ROM format: RealSky
CD Southern Sky on 10 CD-ROMs: http://www.astrosociety.org/
Sandage, A. & Bedke, J. (1994). Carnegie atlas of galaxies (Vols. 1-2). Washington, DC:
Carnegie Institution Press.