Background Reading

• A Celebration of Ricardo Giacconi
  Giacconi is widely regarded as the founder of X-ray astronomy. It is well worth the time of an eager student to review the talks given at his memorial symposium.
• Sky Surveys
  • A brief history of all-sky X-ray surveys
  • Why use nu-fnu? (also definition of the Crab unit)
  • A review of All Sky Monitors (ASMs) by the PIs of various X-ray missions. Good summary of history and insightful.
• Basics of Timing & Fourier Analysis
  • Timing Radio Pulsars (Backer)
  • Timing Binary Pulsars (Taylor)
  • Fourier Techniques in X-ray Astronomy (van der Kliss, 1989)
• Polarization
  • History of Polarization
• Books & Packages
  • Timing Neutron Stars (NATO proceedings)
  • Stingray package (Huppenkothen+)