toolkit

Useful links

Articles, Abstracts, Preprints
ADS (Astrophysics Data System) Article. URL: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/article_service.html.
ADS Abstracts. URL: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
ADS On-line proceedings. URL: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/proceedings_service.html
Los-Alamos e-Print archive. URL: http://arxiv.org/
Journals on-line
Astronomy&Astrophysics. URL: http://www.edpsciences.fr/aa/
Astrophysical Journal. URL: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ
Astronomical Journal. URL: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJ/journal
Astronomische Nachrichten. URL: http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/an/
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. URL: http://www.blacksci.co.uk/
Astrophysics and Space Science. URL: http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0004-640X
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. URL: http://astro.annualreviews.org/
Nature. URL: http://www.america.nature.com/
New Astronomy. URL: http://webhost1.cerf.net/journals/newast
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pasa/
Scientific American. URL: http://www.sciam.com/
Information Bulletin on Variable Stars. URL: http://www.konkoly.hu/IBVS/IBVS.html
Databases
CDS (Strasbourg astronomical Data Center ). URL: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/
Simbad Astronomical Database. URL: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/
AstroBrowse. URL: http://niit1.harvard.edu/AstroBrowse/
Astrophysics Data Facility. URL: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/adf/adf.html
Atomic Data for Astrophysics. URL: http://www.pa.uky.edu/~verner/atom.html
CfA High Energy Astrophysics Division - Data Bases. URL: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/data.html
HEASARC. URL: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Infrared Space Observatory Homepage. URL: http://isowww.estec.esa.nl/
Multimission Archive at STScI (MAST). URL: http://archive.stsci.edu/mast.html
W3Browse Advanced Interface. URL: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3browse.pl
Libraries of stellar spectra (late-type stars). URL: http://www.ucm.es/info/Astrof/spectra.html
The M Dwarf model & synthethic spectra collection. URL: http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~yeti/mdwarfs.html
Cataclysmic Variables Database. URL: http://www.cvcat.org/
Meeting announcements
International Astronomy Meetings. URL: http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/meetings/meetings.html
MCV Conference 2002. URL: http://mensa.ast.uct.ac.za/mcv.html

AGN, normal galaxies, cosmology

ADC DATA ON QUASARS & AGN. URL: http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/quick_ref/ref_quasars.html
Active Galaxies Newsletter. URL: http://www.ast.man.ac.uk/~rb/agn/
Level 5 Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology URL: http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/
Active Galaxies and Quasars. URL: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/active_galaxies.html

X-ray astrophysics

Chandra X-ray observatory center. URL: http://chandra.harvard.edu/
Chandra X-ray Astronomy web page. URL: http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_astro/index.html
MPE XMM_Newton web page. URL: http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/xmm/.
ESA XMM_Newton web page. URL: http://sci.esa.int/xmm/.

X-ray oriented software

Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO). URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download_ciao_reg.html.
XMM-Newton Science Analysis System.URL: http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/sas/.
HEASARC software: FTOOLS, XSpec, XStar. URL: ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

Other Astronomical software

IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility). URL: http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf-homepage.html.

IDL (Interactive Data Languag, Research Systems, Inc.). URL: http://www.rsinc.com

Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming. URL: http://www.dfanning.com/
LANL IDL Home Page. URL: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~uk2/idl/.
The IDL Astronomy User's Library. URL: http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/homepage.html.
The JHU-APL-S1R IDL Library. URL: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/s1r/idl/s1rlib/local_idl.html

Starlink. URL: http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/.
Munich Image Data Analysis System (ESO-MIDAS). URL: ftp://ftp.eso.org/midaspub/.

Data formats

FITS. URL: http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/
FITSIO, CFITSIO. URL: ftp://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/fitsio/

Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics

Smooth particle hydrodynamics. URL: http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~pja3/sph.html
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics. URL: http://www.science.gmu.edu/~jbrugion/sph_links.html
SPH -- Smoothed particle hydrodynamics. URL: http://www.icemcfd.com/cfd/sph.html
SPH Home Page. URL: http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/XHM/SPH/index.html
SPH Links. URL: http://www.science.gmu.edu/~jwallin/sph.html
SPH Resources. URL: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/sph.html
http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/sph.bib. URL: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/sph.bib
Piet Hut: Publication List. URL: http://apollo.sns.ias.edu/~piet/publ/index.html

Publishing-related links

LATEX. URL: http://www.latex-project.org/
HTML. URL: http://validator.w3.org/.
GSview, a PostScript and PDF previewer. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
AFPL Ghostscript. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/

Scientific graphics and GUI

PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library. URL: http://astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/.

PGXTAL Homepage. URL: http://www.isis.rl.ac.uk/dataanalysis/dsplot/.
PLOTDAT PAGE. URL: http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~vjacobs/PLOTDAT/plotdat.html.

Main Pixon page URL: http://pixon.sdsc.edu/.

Astronomy software documentation

Astronomical Documentation Service. URL: http://asds.stsci.edu/.
The Graphics Cookbook. URL: http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/~aa/pages/sc15.htx/sc15.html.
XMM-Newton Science Analysis System: Main Page. URL: http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/data_center/analysis/doc.

Programs for time series analysis

ISDA by Jaan Pelt. URL: http://jupiter.aai.ee/~pelt/.
PERIOD98 by Martin Sperl. URL: http://www.dsn.astro.univie.ac.at/
PERIOD (part of StarLink). URL: http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/
WWZ11. URL: http://www.aavso.org/wwz11.zip.

Programs for spectral analysis

DECH20. URL: http://www.sao.ru/~gala/dech.htm.
WIDTH-9. URL: http://cfaku5.harvard.edu/programs/WIDTH/.
ATLAS-9. URL: http://cfaku5.harvard.edu/programs/atlas9/.
Cloudy and Associates, Photoionization Simulations. URL: http://www.pa.uky.edu/~gary/cloudy/.

Programs for radioastronomy

AIPS++ (Astronomical image processing system). URL: http://www.nrao.edu/aips++/

Programming languages

Compaq Fortran. URL:http://www.compaq.com/fortran/.
LF95 Linux Fortran. URL:http://www.lahey.com/linux.htm.
Fortran Articles. URL:http://www.fortranlib.com/articles.htm.
FORTRAN Programming Language Resources around the World. URL:http://www.eeng.brad.ac.uk/help/.packlangtool/.langs/.fort/.resource.html.
Fortran Resources. URL:http://www.lahey.com/other.htm.
GCC. URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/.

Programming libraries

Numerical Recipes. URL: http://www.nr.com/.
Fortran Library. URL: http://www.fortranlib.com/.
Astrophysics Source Code Library Archive. URL: http://www.ascl.net/.

Linux

The Linux Home Page at Linux Online URL: http://www.linux.org/.
RedHat.com Your Online Linux Resource URL: http://www.redhat.com/.
Linux-Mandrake Home URL: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/.
Welcome to S.u.S.E. URL: http://www.suse.com/.
Caldera, Inc. URL: http://www.caldera.com/.

Linux software

Free Pascal - Home Page URL: http://www.freepascal.org/.
GNU ftp-server URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/.
GCC Home Page - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html.
GNOME Project URL: http://www.gnome.org/.
The K Desktop Environment URL: http://www.kde.org/.
PostgreSQL URL: http://www.postgresql.org/index.html.
The Apache Software Foundation URL: http://www.apache.org/.
The GIMP Homepage URL: http://www.gimp.org/.
OpenOffice URL: http://www.openoffice.org/.
Perl URL: http://www.perl.com/pub.
XFree86(TM) Home Page URL: http://www.xfree86.org/.