General Astronomy/References

The Modern View of the Cosmos

• Bauer, H.H. (1992). Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
• Cox, A.N., ed. (1999). Allen's Astrophysical Quantities. (4th ed.). New York: Springer.
• Dones, L. et al. (2004). Oort Cloud Formation and Dynamics. In Festou et al., ed., Comets II (pg. 153). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Kuhn, T.S. (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• National Research Council of the National Academies. (2003). Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.
• Popper, K.R. (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. New York: Harper.
• Rumerman, J.A. (2005 Feb. 8). Human Space Flight: A Record of Human Achievement 1961 - 1998. Monographs in Aerospace History, #9. Retrieved 29 Jan. 2006 from http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/40thann/humanspf.htm

Observational Astronomy

• Allen, R.H. (1963). Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning. New York: Dover Publications.
• Kaler, J.B. (1996). The Ever Changing Sky. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Motion and Gravity

• Aveni, A.F. (1993). Ancient Astronomers. Montreal: Saint Remy Press.
• Heath, T.L. (1991). Greek Astronomy. New York: Dover Publications. (Reprint. Originally published: London: Dent, 1932.)
• Neugebauer, O. (1983). Astronomy and History: Selected Essays. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• North, J. (1995). The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.
• Taton, R., ed. (1963). History of Science: Ancient and Medieval Science from the Beginnings to 1450. New York: Basic Books, Inc.

Planetary science/Extrasolar Planets

• Isaac Newton, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, trans. Andrew Motte (London, 1729), pp. 387-93.
• Jacob, W. S. "On certain Anomalies presented by the Binary Star 70 Ophiuchi." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 15 (1855): 288-89. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1855MNRAS..15..228J
• Thomas Jefferson Jackson (1896). "Researches on the Orbit of F.70 Ophiuchi, and on a Periodic Perturbation in the Motion of the System Arising from the Action of an Unseen Body". The Astronomical Journal 16: 17. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?1896AJ.....16...17S
• Sherrill, Thomas J. (1999). "A Career of controversy: the anomaly OF T. J. J. See" (PDF). Journal for the history of astronomy 30, http://www.shpltd.co.uk/jha.pdf. Retrieved on 27 August 2007.
• Bell, George H. "The Search for the Extrasolar Planets: A Brief History of the Search, the Findings and the Future Implications." 5 Apr. 2001. Arizona State University. Nov. 2008 <http://www.public.asu.edu/~sciref/exoplnt.htm#preface>.
• van de Kamp, Peter (August 1969). "Alternate dynamical analysis of Barnard's star". The Astronomical Journal 74: 757–759. doi:10.1086/110852, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1969AJ.....74..757V. Retrieved on 27 August 2007
• Campbell, B.; Walker, G. A. H.; Yang, S. (1988). "A search for substellar companions to solar-type stars". Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 331: 902 – 921. doi:10.1086/166608, http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1988ApJ...331..902C.
• Hatzes et al. (2003). "A Planetary Companion to Gamma Cephei A". The Astrophysical Journal 599 (2): 1383 – 1394. doi:10.1086/379281, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/379281.
• Wolszczan, A.; Frail, D. A. (1992). "A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257+12". Nature 355: 145 – 147. doi:10.1038/355145a0, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v355/n6356/abs/355145a0.html.
• Mayor, Michel; Queloz, Didier (1995). "A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star". Nature 378: 355 – 359. doi:10.1038/378355a0, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v378/n6555/abs/378355a0.html.
• Mayor et al. (1995). "A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star". Nature 378: 355–359. doi:10.1038/378355a0
• Schneider, Jean (2008-06-16). "Interactive Extra-solar Planets Catalog". The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2008-06-29
• Gary, B. "Amateur Exoplanet Archive." 29 Nov. 2008. 29 Nov. 2008 <http://brucegary.net/axa/x.htm>.
• "Many, perhaps most, nearby sun-like stars may form rocky planets." Innovations-report. 19 Feb. 2002. <http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/physik_astronomie/bericht-103754.html>.
• Dr Guyon, Olivier "A brief history of the search for extrasolar planets." 11 June 2006. Scitizen. Nov.2008 http://www.scitizen.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=7&idContribution=18
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• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. 2008. <http://exoplanet.eu/catalog.php>.

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• Raine, Steven C. "70 Ophiuchi - Realm of Orange Suns." Sept. 1996. Star of Month. Nov. 2008 <http://web.archive.org/web/20110216135109/http://www.assa.org.au/bulletin/ophiuchi.pdf>.
• Robert, Robert, and Rob Gutro. "White Dwarf Pulses Like a Pulsar." 1 Feb. 08. NASA. <http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/whitedwarf_pulsar.html>.
• Sackett, Dr. Penny D. "Microlensing exoplanets." 5 Aug. 2008. Http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Microlensing_exoplanets.com
• Wright, Jason T. "Detecting Exoplanets with Precise Radial Velocities."
• 70 Ophiuchi 2? Sol Company. <http://www.solstation.com/stars/70ophiu2.htm>.
• "What is an Extrasolar Planet?" Extrasolar Planet. Nov. 2008 <http://www.users.muohio.edu/weaksjt/>.
• William, Lynne. "Out of this World: Extrasolar Planets." 28 Aug. 2008. Nov. 2008 <http://www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/5847.aspx>.
• Henry, Gregory, Eric Ford, Chris McCarthy, Kevin Apps, Greg Laughlin, and Bernie Walp. California & Carnegie Planet Search. Anglo-Australian. <http://exoplanets.org/>.
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• Hillenbrand, Lynne A., John M. Carpenter, Kim Jinyoung Serena, Michael R. Meyer, Dana E. Backman, Moro-Martín, Amaya, David J. Hollenbach, Ilaria Pascucci, Dean C. Hines, and Jeroen Bouwman. "The Complete Census of 70 μm-bright Debris Disks within ``the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems Spitzer Legacy Survey of Sun-like Stars." The Astrophysical Journal 677 (2008): 630-56. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ...677..630H
• Valencia, Diana, Dimitar D. Sasselov, and Richard J. O'Connell. "Radius and Structure Models of the First Super-Earth Planet." The Astrophysical Journal 656 (2007): 545-51. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...656..545V

Exemplars

The modern astronomy textbook has been the product of years of development, through which textbooks have evolved and improved to become effective tools for instruction. The Astronomy contributors gratefully acknowledge the work of the writers of the following textbooks, which have brought the astronomy curriculum into the twenty-first century. The design and pedagogical structure of these books have influenced the development of this work.

• Arny: Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy.
• Bennett, Donahue, Schneider, and Voit: The Cosmic Perspective.
• Kaufmann and Comins: Discovering the Universe.
• Seeds: Foundations of Astronomy.

Stars

• George Forbes (1909). History of Astronomy. London: Watts & Co.. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8172.  - information on the observational history of the stars (used in Astronomy/Stars/Introduction)
• Tøndering, Claus. "Other ancient calendars". WebExhibits. http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-ancient.html.  - information regarding human use of the stars. (used in Astronomy/Stars/Introduction)

Black Holes

• Blinnikov, S., et al. (1984). "Exploding Neutron Stars in Close Binaries". Soviet Astronomy Letters 10: 177. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984SvAL...10..177B&db_key=AST&link_type=ABSTRACT&high=4322390bbe18728. 
• Black Hole formation