Links
(or the most useful, but unnoticed page)
Which information
Useful tools
Databases
Sky monitoring
Free software
Guides & Tutorials
Institutes & groups
People
Journals
Useful tools
Databases
Sky monitoring
Free software
Guides & Tutorials
Institutes & groups
People
Journals
During my work as a scientist I've realized that one can save a lot of time if you
know where to find which information. Often enough it seems impossible to find the
where until someone else tells you. That is why this page and the
which-information-box exists ;-)
As described on the legal-page I do not have
any influence on the contents of the linked webpages!
Useful tools
http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu - search engine for publicationshttp://www.wikisky.org - interactive map of the sky
http://www.calsky.com - calculation and forecast of several astronomical events
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html - interactive search for TeX-symbols
http://apod.nasa.gov - Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://isdc.unige.ch/heavens - ISDC HEAVENS - online analysis of data from recent high-energy missions
Databases
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov - data archive of high energy observationshttp://archive.eso.org/wdb/wdb/adp/phase3_spectral/form - data archive of UV- to IR-observations
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/Radar/ - advanced searches for IR-objects
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad - scientific catalog of stars
http://www.atomdb.org - database of atomic energy transitions
http://atom.kaeri.re.kr - detailed table of nuclides
Sky monitoring
http://integral.esac.esa.int/bexrbmonitor - BeXRB monitorhttp://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/transients - Swift-BAT Hard X-ray Transient Monitor
http://maxi.riken.jp/top/index.php?cid=1 - MAXI Soft X-ray Monitor
http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/integral/nine-years-galactic-survey - INTEGRAL 9-year Galactic Survey
http://www.sat24.com - live weather maps
Free software
http://space.mit.edu/cxc/isis - ISIS - analysis of X-ray spectra, very flexible because it's programmablehttp://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/isis - ISISscripts - collection of useful ISIS functions
http://www.cpan.org - database and search engine for Perl-libraries
http://www.imagemagick.org - create, edit, and convert images from the command line
http://www.ffmpeg.org - record, convert, and stream audio and video (ffmpeg/avconv?)
Guides & Tutorials
http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/wiki/doku.php?id=isis:start - ISIS Wikihttp://www.jedsoft.org/slang/docs.html - various S-Lang guides
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html - Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
Institutes & groups
http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de - Remeis observatory - compact objects, active galactic nuclei, hot starshttp://ecap.nat.uni-erlangen.de - ECAP - neutrino-, X-ray-, and gamma-ray astrophysics
http://www.srl.caltech.edu - Caltech Space Radiation Lab - cosmic rays, high energy astrophysics
http://space.mit.edu - MIT Kavli Institute - high energy astrophysics, cosmolgie, supernovae, exoplanets, ...
http://www.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de - Univ. Würzburg - multi-wavelength astronomy, AGN, astroparticle physics
http://cass.ucsd.edu - UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
http://www.aip.de/de/forschung - Leibniz-Institut for astrophysics Potsdam - X-ray astronomy, cosmologie, ...
http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de - Max-Planck-Institute for radio astronomy
People
http://pulsar.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/wilms - Jörn Wilms - my supervisorhttp://www.arc.hokkai-s-u.ac.jp/~okazaki/index-e.html - Atsuo Okazaki - simulations of Be-disks and winds
http://mason.gmu.edu/~pbecker - Peter A. Becker - theory behind accretion columns on neutron stars
http://space.mit.edu/~mnowak/ - Mike Nowak - useful stuff about Chandra and ISIS
http://www.green-education.eu - Kerstin Bissinger - eLearning about "tropical rainforest and climate change"
http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/~dauser - Thomas Dauser - relativistic reflection at ionized accretion disks
http://www.kuehnel-wiesbaden.de - my family
Journals
http://www.aanda.org - Astronomy & Astrophysicshttp://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X - The Astrophysical Journal
http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
http://www.astronomerstelegram.org - Astronomer's Telegram
http://www.arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph/ - arXiv astrophysics
http://www.sciencemag.org - Science
http://www.nature.com - Nature