Note: Swinburne Astronomy Online does not supply textbooks.

Required Textbook:

The textbook for HET602 is:

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The textbook for HET603 is:

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The textbook for HET624 is:

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The textbook for HET606 is:

• Observational Astronomy, Birney, D. S., Gonzalez, G. and Oesper, D., 2nd edition, 2006 (Cambridge University Press), ISBN 0521853702.

  We recommend that participants in HET606 obtain a copy of this text. It provides a thorough introduction to observational astronomy. While the text specifically focuses on optical telescopes, it discusses observational techniques across a range of wavelengths. Links to appropriate websites for other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum will also be provided.

  Some of the early sections of the course will include reading from the Universe textbook, which is the required text for HET602, HET603 and HET624.

Required Textbook:

The textbook for HET607 is:

• Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology, North, J., 2008 (University of Chicago Press), ISBN: 9780226594415

  We strongly recommend that participants in HET607 obtain a copy of the text which is very interesting and gives lively overviews of the history of astronomy and complements our course material well.

Recommended Reading:

Optional reference for further reading:

• Minding the Heavens, Leila Belkora, 2003, (London, UK: Institute of Physics Publishing), ISBN 0750307307 (pb).
• The Cambridge Concise History Of Astronomy, editor Hoskin, M., 1999 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), ISBN 0521572916 (hc), 0521576008 (pb)

Belkora's book is a useful reference for students who want more detailed information about the astronomers and scientists (Wright, Herschel, Struve, Huggins, Kapteyn, Shapley and Hubble) who first mapped the stellar content of our Galaxy and estimated the scale of the Galaxy, ending with the discovery of external galaxies by Hubble and others.

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The textbook for HET608 is:

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The textbooks for HET609 are:

• Digital SLR Astrophotography, Covington, M., 2007, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), ISBN 9780521700818 (pb).

• Handbook of CCD Astronomy, Howell, S., 2nd edition, 2006, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), ISBN 9780521617628.

  We strongly recommend that participants in HET609 obtain a copy of both of these texts unless they are already familiar with much of the subject matter and own broadly equivalent books. These two textbooks are somewhat expensive, but cover the course material well.

Required Textbook:

The textbook for HET610 is:

• Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics, Sellers, J., 3rd edition, 2007 (New York: McGraw-Hill), ISBN 0077230302.
  NOTE: There is also a 2003 revised second edition (ISBN 0072943645). Either version is fine.

  We strongly recommend that participants in HET610 obtain a copy of this text. It covers the basics of astronautics well. Parts of the unit that are not covered by this textbook will use NASA & other website material as a prime reference.

Recommended Reading:

Optional reference for further reading:

• Into the Final Frontier - the Human Exploration of Space, McNamara, B., 2001, (Harcourt College Publishers Philadelphia), ISBN 003032016X.

  McNamara's book includes a discussion on the early history of rocketry, the USSR-USA space race, and covers individual space missions in a detail.

Required Textbook:

The textbook for HET611 is:

• Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics, Ostlie, B. W. & Carroll, D. A., 2nd edition, 2007 (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing), ISBN 0805304029.

  We strongly recommend that participants in HET611 obtain a copy of this text. While it goes into more detail that the course material in sections and can be quite mathematical in parts, it is an excellent graduate level text and compliments the course material well.

  You can also use the textbook Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, by Ostlie & Carroll, 2nd edition, 2007 [ISBN 0321442849], as sections I and II are the same as the Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics book.

There is no required textbook for HET612.

Recommended Reading:

However the following optional references can be useful:

• The Cambridge Concise History Of Astronomy, Hoskin, M. (ed.), 1999, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), ISBN 0521572916 (hc), 0521576008 (pb).
• Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology, North, J., 2008 (University of Chicago Press), ISBN: 9780226594415

These are the same textbooks that are used in HET607, a prerequisite for this Unit.

Required Textbook:

The textbook for HET614 is:

• The Particle Garden: Our Universe As Understood by Particle Physicists, Kane, G., 1996, (Reading, MA: Helix Books for Perseus Press), ISBN 0201407809 (hc), 0201408260 (pb).

  We strongly recommend that participants in HET614 obtain a copy of this inexpensive text.

Recommended Reading:

Optional reference for further reading:

• Exploring the X-Ray Universe, Charles & Seward (ed.), 2nd edition, 2010, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), ISBN 9780521884839 (hc).

• Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics, Veltman, M.G., 2003, (World Scientific Publishing ), ISBN 981238149X.

Charles & Seward's book is a useful reference for students who want to delve more deeply into high energy astrophysics than does the course material, and are happy to do so at a higher mathematical level. It is optional, however, as it is fairly expensive. Furthermore, the 1995 edition is now somewhat outdated in places and it does not cover all the areas of high energy astrophysics discussed in this unit, but it is a good textbook all the same. The HET614 course material plus resource material on the Internet are sufficient to cover the high energy astrophysics part of this unit.

The Veltman text was recommended by a HET614 student!

There is no required textbook for HET615.

Recommended Reading:

However the following optional references can be useful:

• Digital SLR Astrophotography, Covington, M., 2007, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), ISBN 9780521700818 (pb).

• Handbook of CCD Astronomy, Howell, S., 2006 2nd edition, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), ISBN 9780521617628.

These two books are the same textbooks that are used in HET609, a prerequisite for this Unit.

There is no required textbook for this Unit. Links to relevant websites will be provided.

Recommended Reading:

Optional reference books for further reading include:

• The Cambridge Concise History Of Astronomy, Hoskin, M. (ed.), 1999 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), ISBN 0521572916 (hc), 0521576008 (pb).
• Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology, North, J., 2008 (University of Chicago Press), ISBN 9780226594415
• Universe, Freedman, Geller & Kaufmann, 9th edition, 2010 (New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.), ISBN 142923153X.
• Minding the Heavens, Leila Belkora, 2003, (London, UK: Institute of Physics Publishing), ISBN 0 7503 0730 7 (pb).

These texts were all used in previous SAO units, including HET602, HET603, HET624 and HET607.

There is no required textbook for this Unit. Depending on which project you choose, relevant websites and scientific papers (all available online) will be provided.

There is no required textbook for this Unit. Reading materials will be relevant to the research topic.