Getting Started

Background Reading: Supernovae, Gamma-ray Bursts, Transients

Introductory reviews:

• Chapter 1 of this book on gamma-ray bursts (2018)—available through Cornell library
• Decadal Survey 2021
• Nature Astronomy Focus Issue, including articles on Extreme Supernovae and Core-collapse Supernovae
• Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of Gamma-ray Bursts Review (2018)—available through Cornell library
• Supernova Lecture from 2017
• Transients Review from 2012
• Review of the GRB-SN Connection (2006)

Optical afterglow searches:

• Ask Prof. Ho for recent proposals
• PTF11agg (Cenko et al. 2013)
• iPTF14yb (Cenko et al. 2015)

Supernova Spectra:

• Primer

ZTF:

• Intro to ZTF (2017)
• ZTF Science (2019)
• ZTF Science Data System Explanatory Supplement
• Latest Data Release (DR5)
• ZTF data documentation
• Tutorials for working with ZTF data

DESI:

• Website
• Experiment Paper
• Wiki
• DESI Github

Essentials for Astronomy Research

• NoMachine, for connecting to a remote desktop. Tutorial for NERSC here.
• Python. Here is a tutorial to get started, and here is a guide to Python at NERSC. And here is an overview of Jupyter at NERSC.
• Github, for keeping track of code and collaborating on projects. Here is a tutorial to get started.
• ADS, for finding and reading publications.
• The Transient Name Server, for finding information on cosmic explosions.
• NED, for looking up your favorite extragalactic object.