Paper Related
Academic Papers make up a fundamental part of a researcher’s life. Keeping up with the day to day new publications can be difficult but not impossible. Two great resources to help with this are Cornell University’s Open Source Papers Website and NASA’s Astrophysics Data Archive of papers. To investigate more on a certain topic, you can use these two websites Paper Scape and Connected Papers to find similar papers. If you wish to find more works by or information regarding a specific scientist, the website ORCID is used by many such researchers.
When you begin writing a paper, a great place to write it is in an open source, online latex environment such as Over Leaf. If you are submitting to an AAS Journal, you can use their template to get you started!
Telescope Facilities and Observing
Did you hear of an observatory or want to know of telescopes in a certain place? This List of USA Observatories can be a helpful start. Did you see a celestial object or want to get an idea of what you are observing is supposed to look like? SIMBAD: Object Lookup is a useful site to help with this as well as this Interactive Night Sky website for a more basic approach. Whether you are observing Disks, Exoplanets, or Comets there are archives of data to help.
Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy
Clemson University shares time, with researchers from other institutions, on the SARA 0.9-meter telescope located at Kitt Peak, Arizona. Faculty and students at Clemson University conduct remote observing runs from the Kinard Laboratory of Physics.
Clemson Atmospheric Research Laboratory
CARL is the Clemson Atmospheric Research Laboratory and is in the Fants Grove experimental forest. There are several radio frequency experiments that are being conducted, including ongoing data collection of HF signals to understand the bottomside ionosphere and a coherent scatter radar to look at plasma structuring associated with sporadic E. The site is an ideal radio quiet site.
Electron Beam Ion Transport
The Clemson University Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) laboratory is housed in the basement of Kinard Laboratory and was funded through an NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant in 2010. The laboratory is built around a superconducting electron beam ion source (EBIS-SC) and bending/analyzing magnet capable of producing, trapping, and creating energetic beams of multiply charged ions of injected elements. As a trap, the EBIT source represents a plasma containing a distribution of multiple charge states which interact with neutrals, ions and electrons to produce x-rays similar to those found in fusion reactors or stellar environments. As an energetic beam source, the EBIT can accelerate multiply charged ions to velocities relevant for laboratory-based solar wind studies on gaseous or solid targets. Projects in the laboratory therefore encompass multiple disciplines, including atomic physics, laboratory astrophysics, biophysics and condensed matter physics.
Coding
Palmetto:
- Palmetto Documentation: https://docs.rcd.clemson.edu/palmetto/
- Self-Paced Workshops: https://docs.rcd.clemson.edu/training/category/workshop-catalog/
- Live Workshop Schedule: https://docs.rcd.clemson.edu/training/schedule/
- Palmetto On-Demand (Online GUI Palmetto Interface): https://ondemand.rcd.clemson.edu
Textbooks/Text Resources:
- Numerics in Python: https://pythonnumericalmethods.studentorg.berkeley.edu
- Numerics in C/C++/Fortran: https://numerical.recipes/
- The C Programming Language. 2nd Edition, Kernighan and Ritchie: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0131103628
- CUDA By Example: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-example
- Absolute C++, Savtich and Mock: https://www.amazon.com/Absolute-C-6th-Walter-Savitch/dp/0133970787
Lecture Videos:
- Introduction to Python (MIT OCW): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-0001-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-in-python-fall-2016/
- Algorithms/Data Structures (MIT OCW): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-spring-2020/
- Rutgers Computational Physics Lecture Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXb_O_4JA7w&list=PLXmUYdQdC9IGv61Y1lhGBH0NsDQRdwcJE
- Stanford CS 107(C/C++ and Other Advanced Topics): https://see.stanford.edu/course/cs107