Craig Heinke's Useful Links
- ADS Abstract Service
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- astro-ph last week's papers, astro-ph (author,title,paper \#)/.
- Astronomer's Telegram.
- Edmonton weather
- Alberta physics dept
- CIAO Chandra software, CIAO Science Threads.
- SAS 8.0 docs; User's Guide, Goddard ABC Guide, MPE Cookbook for XMM.
- PIMMS or webPIMMS for X-ray fluxes; other CXC links.
- XSPEC v.12 manual, FTOOLS Manual, XRONOS, QDP/PLT User's Guide -for plot manipulation.
- Chandra Observation Catalog, HEASARC Browse for all X-ray observations.
- Penn State ACIS team's software ACIS_EXTRACT.
- HEASARC X-ray missions, data and tools, including Suzaku, and Swift, and
RXTE data analysis (and
RXTE Cookbook).
- Transients:
Gal. Center RXTE/PCA Scans,
MAXI ASM,
Swift/BAT transients, INTEGRAL bulge scans, and RXTE ASM.
- HST docs:
ACS,
WFPC2,
STSDAS,
Pyraf.
- Iraf.net IRAF support,
IRAF documentation,
hourly airmass tables.
- ISIS (image subtraction package).
- Super Mongo for plotting.
- DS9 Manual for imaging.
CPAN Perl repository.
- IDL Astronomy User's Library, Tuebingen IDL software, Craig Markwardt's IDL software.
- WebGUIDE, X-ray periodic table, X-ray elements.
- Ned Wright's Cosmology Calculator.
- Ghostscript home page, A First Guide to Postscript
- Astrobites (short reviews of ArXiv papers).
- ApJ.
- Nature (often controversial, but always entertaining astronomy)
- AAS, astronomical conferences from CADC.
- SIMBAD, VizieR catalogs, Aladin for images, and Skyview more multiwavelength images.
- HST Archive, Multi-Mission Archive (UV, HST, Sloan, ROSAT, FIRST) .
- Globular Cluster database (Harris 1996)
- CV
catalog (Downes
et al. 2001), CVs & LMXBs (Ritter & Kolb 2003).
- HESS high-E gamma-rays; McGill magnetar catalog.
- Pulsar x-ray catalog (Becker & Trumper 1999)
- ATNF pulsar catalog (CSIRO), Paulo Freire's globular pulsar catalog.
- Green Galactic SNR catalogue, and the MOST Molonglo SNR Catalogue
- Extrasolar planet searches; Marcy and Butler's page.
- NRAO
Archives, Infrared Science Archive IRAS, 2MASS, submm data; IRAS/COBE Dust Maps (Schlegel et al. 1998)
- AAS Job Register, Astrophysics Rumour Mill job gossip
- Chandra results, XMM
results.
- Depts: Harvard,
Carleton College,
Northwestern,
U. Virginia,
Indiana,
Penn State, and
Alberta.
- Some CfA research links
- Comparison of X-ray instruments
- Assemble script for posters (courtesy of K. Stanek).
- Zombeck's Handbook
- PINTofALE for IDL X-ray line IDs, and PROS Users Guide for timing old ROSAT data.
- ISIS for (spectral) modeling, John Davis's pileup model, and other MIT CXC stuff.
- US citizens, Vote from Abroad! Quick and easy--don't forget to vote!
- New York Times, the best US news source.
- FiveThirtyEight.com for polling junkies.
- Some good press: outreach, research.
- Tutorial for HTML, and W3 Schools HTML tutorial.
- Bookfinder; Best way to find a new or used book.