Elizabeth Wehner

Introduction to Astrophysics I - Fall 2006

Electronic Astronomy Resources

Images

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
Main page:  http://www.sdss.org/
Imaging query: http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/tools/search/IQS.asp
Spectroscopy query: http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/tools/search/SQS.asp
Aladin:
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/
SkyView:
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov

Databases

CADC (archives galore):
http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca 
CDS:
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/
SIMBAD:
http://simbad.harvard.edu/Simbad
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad
VizieR:        
Main page: http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/vizier/
Query page: http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR
NASA Extragalactic Database (NED):
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu
Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database (LEDA):
http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/

Articles

Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Main page: http://adswww.harvard.edu/
Query page: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
Astro-ph (preprint service):
http://arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph
Also – most individual journals have listings
ApJ: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/
AJ: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/
A&A: http://www.edpsciences.org/journal/index.cfm?edpsname=aa
ARAA: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/astro?cookieSet=1
MNRAS: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/mnr

Telescope Archives

For many (GEMINI, CFHT, HST, JCMT, DSS) see CADC:  http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca

MAST:
http://archive.stsci.edu/mast.html
VLA:
http://archive.nrao.edu/archive/e2earchive.jsp
Spitzer:
Main page:http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer/index.shtml
Query (leopard software tool): http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/propkit/spot/

Tools

HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center)
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Tools/Tools.html
Imagiware – Observing run prep tools:
http://www.imagiware.com/astro/

Other Resources

Meetings