Astro README.md
===============

-  This is a collection of very good intro-level notes/lectures/manuals
   that cover a broad range of topics. Although it is not possible to
   read all of them before you do research, but it is helpful to know
   they exist.

Online or Free Textbook
-----------------------

-  `AstroBaki <https://casper.ssl.berkeley.edu/astrobaki/index.php/Main_Page>`__

   -  AstroBaki is a wiki for current and aspiring scientists to
      collaboratively build pedagogical materials such as videos,
      lecture notes, and textbooks.

-  `Open Astrophysics
   Bookshelf <https://open-astrophysics-bookshelf.github.io/>`__

   -  Open Licensed Astrophysics Texts; Open for Contributions. Now
      includes:
   -  `Computational Hydrodynamics for
      Astrophysics <https://github.com/Open-Astrophysics-Bookshelf/numerical_exercises>`__
   -  `Notes on Star Formation by Mark
      Krumholz <https://github.com/Open-Astrophysics-Bookshelf/star_formation_notes>`__
   -  `Astrophysical Processes
      Notes <https://github.com/Open-Astrophysics-Bookshelf/astrophysical_processes_notes>`__
   -  `Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics for
      Undergraduate <https://github.com/Open-Astrophysics-Bookshelf/intro-stellar-physics>`__
   -  `Stellar Astrophysics for Graduate
      Student <https://github.com/Open-Astrophysics-Bookshelf/stellar-physics-notes>`__

-  `ISM and Star Formation based on Harvard Astronomy
   201B <https://ay201b.wordpress.com/>`__

   -  Jointly-Edited Online “Book”, first created in 2011 by
      Prof. Alyssa Goodman, Teaching Fellow Chris Beaumont, and the 21
      Harvard graduate students who took the course at that time.

User Manual for Astronomer
--------------------------

-  Below is a list of (relative short) manual, guide, tutorial on some
   specific but important topics in astrophysical research. You don’t
   need to read all of them (although you are encouraged to do so…), but
   you should know they are available.

Math, Oh Math…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  `The Matrix
   Cookbook <https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf>`__

   -  Quick desktop reference on everything related to matrix.

-  `Fisher Matrices and Confidence Ellipses: A Quick-Start Guide and
   Software <https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.4123>`__

   -  Also see `Fisher Matrix for
      Beginners <http://wittman.physics.ucdavis.edu/Fisher-matrix-guide.pdf>`__
   -  And `A Tutorial on Fisher
      Information <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.01064.pdf>`__

-  `Statistical uncertainty and error
   propagation <https://users.aalto.fi/~mvermeer/uncertainty.pdf>`__

   -  Quick summary of statistical error propagation.

-  `Dimensionality Reduction A Short
   Tutorial <https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~aghodsib/courses/f06stat890/readings/tutorial_stat890.pdf>`__

Data Analysis
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  `A Beginner’s Guide to Working with Astronomical
   Data <https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13189>`__

   -  Basics about astronomical data analysis using **Python**.

-  `Astronomical
   Spectroscopy <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013pss2.book...35M>`__

   -  by Philp Massey and Margaret Hanson. Very good introduction about
      the spectroscopic instrument and data reduction.

-  `Dos and don’ts of reduced
   chi-squared <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.3754.pdf>`__

   -  By Rene Andrae, Tim Schulze-Hartung, & Peter Melchior.

-  `On Model Selection in
   Cosmology <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.07726.pdf>`__

Data Analysis Recipes by David Hogg
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-  The GitHub repo for this book is
   `here <https://github.com/davidwhogg/DataAnalysisRecipes>`__
-  `Data analysis recipes: Choosing the binning for a
   histogram <https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4820>`__
-  `Data analysis recipes: Fitting a model to
   data <https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4686>`__

   -  **This is really worth reading**

-  `Data analysis recipes: Probability calculus for
   inference <https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4446>`__
-  `Data analysis recipes: Using Markov Chain Monte
   Carlo <https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06068>`__

Cosmology
~~~~~~~~~

-  `Distance measures in cosmology by David
   Hogg <https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905116>`__

-  `Exploring the Expansion History of the Universe by Eirc
   Linder <https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0208512.pdf>`__

-  `Damn You, Little h! by Darren
   Croton <https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4150>`__

   -  The published version is
      `here <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/damn-you-little-h-or-realworld-applications-of-the-hubble-constant-using-observed-and-simulated-data/EB4B786F4500F897A589C3ED980C17F5>`__
   -  This is a really useful note. **little-h** can be really tricky!
   -  Also see `this conversion table by Ivan
      Baldry <http://www.astro.ljmu.ac.uk/~ikb/research/>`__

-  `Dark Matter Halo Mass Profiles <https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0411>`__

   -  Notes on basic NFW and Einasto profiles.