AST 552, Galactic Dynamics

When: MW 1:00-2:15

Where: B+L 480, Chart Room

Professor: Alice Quillen

Useful websites

• Abstract server: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
• Preprint server: (astro-ph) http://xxx.lanl.gov/
• NED -Nasa/IPAC extragalactic database, http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
• SIMBAD, Astronomical database, mostly galactic, http://simbad.harvard.edu/Simbad

• IRSA, infrared data archive, http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu has 2MASS data, MSX, IRAS etc.
• SDSS, Sloan digital sky survey, http://archive.stsci.edu/sdss
• BIMA SONG, 44 nearby galaxies CO interferometry, soon: http://astron.berkeley.edu/~thelfer/
• Ohio-State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey, B+H images, Bright galaxies in RC3 catalog, http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu:/~survey/EDR/Data
• Space Telescope and MAST, UV and HST archive, http://archive.stsci.edu
• Canadian Galactic HI survey, among other things http://cadcwww.hia.nrc.ca/cgps/
• Chandra archive, http://chandra.harvard.edu/
• HESEARC, high energy archive, http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/db-perl/W3Browse/w3browse.pl
• Regional planetary image facilities, http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/library/RPIF/RPIF.html
• Planetary data system, http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov, http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/, http://ringmaster.arc.nasa.gov/
• National space science data center, including gateways to planetary, space and solar physics archives, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

• SIM, Space Interferometry Mission, http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_index.html
• GAIA Galactic Census project, http://astro.estec.esa.nl/GAIA
• SIRTF: http://sirtf.caltech.edu/SSC/ call for GO proposals will be in Nov

• NOAO: http://www.noao.edu/obs_info.html, due Sept 30
• IRTF: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/, due Oct 1
• VLA: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/vla/html/VLAusing.shtml, due dates: February 1, June 1, October 1
• HST cycle 12, due Jan 2003, http://www.stsci.edu/hst/localCalendar?display_type=all#Cycle12ProposalSubmission

• Linux stuff: IRAF, ds9, pgplot, other stuff, http://caliente.mmto.arizona.edu/~tim/RPMS/
• FITSIO library, http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fitsio.html