|- My Research
- I am currently leading the GHOSTS Survey, a large HST survey of the resolved stelllar populations of bulges, thick disks, and halos of nearby, massive disk galaxies. More information about what I have done in astronomy can be found at my publication and citation pages, while some current work is described at my research page. Some PowerPoint files of talks I have given can be found at my presentations page.
- Papers, preprints, journals, citations
- ADS abstract service (search papers by author or topic, retrieve papers, references, citations and data)
- astro-ph e-print
- the Astronomical Journal (AJ)
- the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP)
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
- Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) or at CDS
- Departments, institutes and observatories
- The Starpages with institute and personal info
- Space Telescope Science Institute my current institute
- Steward Observatory / Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona (my institute 1998-2001)
- Durham Astronomy with the Durham Extragalactic Observational Astronomy group (my institute 1995-1998)
- Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (my graduation institute 1995)
- Observatories
- NOAO (deadlines 31 March & 30 September)
- European Southern Observatory (ESO) (about 1April & 1 October)
- Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) (deadlines 31 March & 30 September)
- The Anglo-Australian Observatory (deadlines 31 March & 30 September)
- MDM Observatory
- Ohio State University Astronomy department
- Liverpool with the Halpha Galaxy Survey
- Databases, archives, resources
- AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources
- Astronomy meetings
- NED for extra-galactic data, images and references
- LEDA for extra-galactic data, especially RC3 input data
- CDS, Strasbourg with Simbad, VizieR, Catalogues and the StarPages (Astronomy Yellow Pages)
- Astronomical Data Center of NASA
- SkyView: The internet's virtual telescope provides images of many surveys/wavelengths
- The STScI Digitized Sky Survey with POSS I and II images
- The fast Digitized Sky Survey with POSS I and II images from CADC
- APS Image Database of POSS I
- USNO Catalog with accurate star positions. I have made an iraf script matchusno that will match USNO stars to your FITS image, provided it has RA and DEC image header items. The link will download a tar file, with a ReadMe file with installation instructions
- Data Archives
- Starlink Astronomical Archives page
- Canadian Astronomical Data Center with the CFHT, HST, JCMT, ESO, La Palma, USNO, UKIRT, Hipparcos and Guide Star Catalog archives
- UK archives (ING and UKIRT)
- ESO archives with VLT, NTT, HST and the ESOLV archives
- STScI archives
- Stellar population synthesis models
- PÉGASE models
- Charlot & Bruzual models
- Göttingen models (use with care, I have found problems in these files)
- Vazdekis models
- Worthey models
- STScI Starburst models and Galaxy evolution page
- Astro manuals and observing help
- Astronomy Tools with Astronomical Sky Calendar, Daily Almanac, Hourly Airmass Tables and Object Seasonal Observability for many observatories
- IRAF data reduction package
- GIM2D a 2-dimensional galaxy fitting package develloped by Luc Simard
- Real-Time satelite images/movies of the USA
- Taurus Tunable Filter (TTF) at AAO
- Observational Mishaps, showing CCD images with defects and explanations
- Pretty Astronomy Pictures
- Pretty pictures of nearby edge-on galaxies from my Cycle 12 HST program to investigate their dust lane properties and stellar content on Anil Seth's web site.
- PISCES near-infrared "true color images" of mainly big nearby disk galaxies
- HST UV-optical "true color images" from our local universe HST UV galaxy survey (password protected)
- Jobs
- AAS Job Register
- Astronomy Job Rumor Central gossip site without names
- Astrophysics Jobs Rumor Mill gossip site with names