Welcome to

KOEN KUIJKEN's

home page.

Warning: This home page is old: in 2002 I moved to the Leiden Astronomy Department where I try to keep my new page up to date.

OmegaCAM, a wide-field CCD camera for the Paranal VLT Survey Telescope.
Dark Matter Distributions in galaxies and clusters using gravitational lensing.
Observations of the stellar kinematics in nearby galaxies
The Planetary Nebulae Spectrograph, a novel instrument for measuring kinematics of large samples of such nebulae in other galaxies
Warps in Disk Galaxies (using our GalactICS software for N-body model building)
The BARS project, a consortium who study Barred And Ringed Spiral galaxies

Programmes for the colloquium series in Groningen (see also our more informal Wednesday lunch talks), and in Leiden, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Dwingeloo.)

PREPRINTS, REFERENCES, ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

Archive preprint searches: astro-ph ( today, past week, find), hep-ph, hep-th, gr-qc.
Same thing at Los Alamos and at Trieste, Augsburg , France.

ADS Astronomy+astrophysics abstract searches (or mirror in France).

AIP Online Journal Service.

Electronic ApJ, Astronomy and Astrophysics abstracts, New Astronomy, Nature, New Scientist , Sky & Telescope

SOME USEFUL ASTRONOMY SITES

Astronomy institutes in the Netherlands:

Groningen, Leiden, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Dwingeloo

A few sites in Europe:

Southampton, Cambridge, (with RGO and IoA), Oxford, Gent , ESO (with HST propaganda),
La Palma observatory , Keck Observatory, Naples Observatory, Theoretical Physics Dept at the University of the Basque Country .

And some further afield:

Direct links to CITA , Harvard-Smithsonian CfA , STScI, Lick Observatory, AAT .

There are many more astronomy sites in AstroWeb (at STScI)

Microlensing projects:

PLANET, OGLE and MACHO.

List of Astronomy meetings

Royal Astronomical Society, American Astronomical Society

USEFUL TOOLS:

LateX help , IRAF help pages , IRAF Home page , PGPLOT documentation, XV docs,
Skyview digitised sky pictures at Goddard , STScI , NASA Extragalactic Database (NED) , Astronomical Data Center (ADC)

TEACHING OF ASTRONOMY:

IAC GRAVITATIELENZEN 1999
RuG beta-wijzer
Galaxies, Quasars and Cosmology (M.R.Merrifield, Southampton)
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Modern Astrophysics (P.Schechter, M.I.T.)
MANY beautiful Solar System Images
Several physics and astronomy WWW'ed courses

GENERAL:

NOS teletekst (including Wisselkoersen and Weersverwachting vandaag, komende dagen)

IR cloud picture of W. Europe

SOFTWARE ARCHIVES

software archives , UK SunSite

SLATEC public domain math library

Guide to available mathematical software (GAMS),

Numerical Recipes with the Fortran Book in postscript

SEARCH ENGINES:

Lycos , Altavista, Excite

ON-LINE BOOKSHOPS

University Presses Book Catalogue, General book catalogue (Netscape only), On-line book shop. BookWorld bookshop , Wordsworth (Cambridge, Mass.), Blackwells (Oxford, UK), Heffers (Cambridge, UK), Amazon Books

NEWSPAPERS

De Standaard (a Belgian Newspaper), NRC Handelsblad (Dutch).
A long list of international papers

TRAVELLING

Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Another link on Dutch railways

ITN Airline reservations system

Other Transport links

Netherlands Board of Tourism

Want to know the weather all over the world? Check these clickable maps with live(-ish) camera locations!