Astrophysics and me

In my previous life I used to be an astrophysicist, until I decided that the odds of getting a decent job in academia were only slightly better than being hit by a meteor. However, I did make a few contributions to the field while I was there, and a couple of my papers are available on the web:

The Deutsch Field Gamma Ray Pulsar I - The Model Basics
The Deutsch Field Gamma Ray Pulsar II - Application of the Model

My thesis is kicking around on disk somewhere, and eventually I'll put a link to it here. God knows why anyone would want to read it (except for me, of course).

Astro links

The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). This has on-line versions of pretty much every astrophysics journal article published in the last ten or fifteen years. This quality of information is what the Internet should be about.

The e-print archives. No one waits for the published journal articles anymore (though the peer review process is still critical) - they read the preprints of the journal articles here.

The Queen's University physics department. I spent many happy years there. In particular, the astro group is where I hung my hat.