Useful Links for Astronomers

Organizations and Institutions

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Astronomical Society (AAS)
• American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
• CDS, Strasbourg
• Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (CEA)
• European Space Agency (Astrophysics Division)
• HEASARC
• International Astronomical Union (IAU)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

• Home Pages for American Universities
• Home Pages for Canadian Universities
• Home Pages for International Universities

• Statistical Consulting Center for Astronomy - at Penn State

Catalogs & Data Archives

• Catalog of Herbig-Haro Objects - Reipurth 1994 (UMass site)
• Herbig-Bell Catalog - UMass site (developed by Karen Strom)
• Herbig-Bell Catalog - modified copy of UMass version at STScI

• SIMBAD - astronomical database at CDS, Strasbourg, France

• Astronomical Data Center (ADC)
• Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
• National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)

Newsletters & Journals

• COOLNEWS - Cool Star Newsletter
• Star Formation Newsletter - UMass site (developed by Karen Strom)

• ADS Abstract Service - abstracts & articles
• xxx e-Print archive - Los Alamos National Labs

• Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Astronomical Journal - home page
• Astrophysical Journal - home page
• Astrophysical Journal (Letters) - home page
• Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series - home page

Observatories

• Black Moshannon Observatory (Penn State)
• Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
• Keck Observatory - application info
• Kitt Peak National Observatory
• National Optical Astronomy Observatories
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• National Solar Observatory
• Wyoming Infrared Observatory

• ASCA Guest Observer Facility
• Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) - homepage. US ISO Science Support Center at IPAC
• Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Guest Observer Facility
• X-ray Multi-mirror Mission (XMM) - homepage

Other Lists of Astronomical Resources

• The Star*s Family: StarBits, StarHeads, and StarWorlds
• AstroWeb - Astronomical Internet Resources

U.S. Government

• White House home page
• Executive Branch
• Legislative & Judicial Branches
• Independent Agencies & Commissions

• Penn State's page for federally funded research links

Software

• AIPS
• FTOOLS
• IDL Astronomical User's Library
• IRAF
• MIDAS
• PGPLOT
• PROS
• STSDAS
• WIP - interactive use of PGPLOT library
• XANADU and XSPEC

Search Engines

• Infoseek
• LYCOS
• Yahoo

• Community of Science Page