Links Page

Often Used

Google

Hotmail

BBC

CNN

ADS

Nasa's Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service Query Form
The essential astronomy literature research link

ASTRO-PH

This electronic print archive is a great place to look for current papers.

Alma Maters/Almae Matres

Brandeis University: Waltham, MA

Brandeis University Radio Astronomy Group

University of Manchester: Manchester, UK

Jodrell Bank Observatory

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Department of Astronomy

Classes At UVA

Astronomical Techniques (ASTR 511)

Radioastronomy Instrumentation (ASTR 535)

High Energy Astrophysics (ASTR 545)

Interstellar Medium (ASTR 542)

Galactic Structure & Stellar Populations (ASTR 551)

Extragalactic (ASTR 553)

Computing

The IDL Astronomy User's Library

A central repository for low-level astronomy software written in the commercial language IDL

Numerical Recipes Home Page

A standard in scientific programming

Perldoc.com - Perl Documentation

PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library

My favorite programmable plotting package

Infrared

IRSA: The Infrared Science Archives

Scientific Data Archives of NASA in infrared and sub-millimeter

2MASS at IPAC

The Two Micron All Sky Survey
470,992,970 point sources, 1,647,599 resolved sources, & 4,121,439 J, H and Ks FITS images covering the sky

DIRBE/IRAS Dust Maps

Maps of Dust IR Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and CMBR Foregrounds

Radio

0800+608

An atypical quasar I worked on

NED Search Results

Results from a standard extragalactic object database

VizieR Catalog 158 Detailed Page

Results from a catalog of quasars

Difmap: An Interactive Program for Synthesis Imaging

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)

A research facility of the U.S. National Science Foundation that runs some of the world's most important radio telescopes.

The VLA Calibrator Manual

Essential information about calibration sources for NRAO's Very Large Aray

VLA Documentation

Essential documentation for the NRAO's Very Large Aray

Jodrell Bank Observatory

Home to the Lovell Telescope and operations center for PPARC's MERLIN/VLBI National Facility and one of my former host institutions

Merlin User Guide

A necessity when reducing MERLIN data

X-Ray

Chandra

Nasa's Great X-ray Observatory

Chandra Science

Technical website for Chandra

CIAO 2.3

The standard software used to analyze Chandra data with out major bugs

Dictionary - CIAO 2.3

Dictionary of Chandra and CIAO terms

All Threads - CIAO 2.3

Analysis threads for use with CIAO

CIAO 3.0

The standard software used to analyze Chandra data with major bugs

Dictionary - CIAO 3.0

Dictionary of Chandra and CIAO terms

All Threads - CIAO 3.0

Analysis threads for use with CIAO

NGC 4365

An elliptical galaxy I am currently working on

NED Search Results

Results from a standard extragalactic database

SIMBAD Search Results

Results from a standard astronomical object database

NGC 4382

Another elliptical galaxy I am currently working on

NED Search Results

Results from a standard extragalactic database

SIMBAD Search Results

Results from a standard astronomical object database

Software

HEAsoft

A package combining

FTOOLS

A general package of software to manipulate FITS files

XANADU

A package for x-ray analysis

XSPEC

AN X-ray spectral fitting package

PLT Command Summary

A plotting package used in Heasoft

CIAO 2.3

The standard software used to analyze Chandra data without major bugs

CIAO 3.0

The standard software used to analyze Chandra data with major bugs

MARX

A simulation program for Chandra observations

The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey

A Hubble Space Telescope Survey of galaxies in the Virgo cluster by some collaborators

XAssist

An automated X-ray reduction program

X-RAY Galaxy Clusters DataBase

Writing

Merriam-Webster OnLine - Dictionary - Thesaurus

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Miscellaneous

The University of Virginia Library

Aladin Service

An interactive software sky atlas

Simbad Astronomical Database

A great astronomical database

VizieR Service

Collection of astronomical catalogs

NED

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database is another great astronomical database.

The Astrophysical Journal

The premiere journal in the field