	Gregory R. Sivakoff
	Research Associate
	University of Virgina Department of Astronomy

Links Page

For up-to-date links, check out my del.icio.us links. It may be a social linking service, but my public links are mainly my research links.

Often Used

ADS: Nasa's Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service Query Form
The essential astronomy literature research link
ASTRO-PH: This electronic print archive is a great place to look for current papers.
Aladin Service: An interactive software sky atlas
NED: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database is another great astronomical database.
Simbad Astronomical Database: A great astronomical database
VizieR Service: Collection of astronomical catalogs
US National Virtual Observatory: Virtual observatory oriject that makes "it possible for astronomical researchers to find, retrieve, and analyze astronomical data from ground- and space-based telescopes worldwide."
Image Mosaic Survey: A great tool to stich together multiple images from some of the most used optical/near-IR surveys (DSS, SDSS, 2MASS).

Alma Maters/Almae Matres

Classes At UVA

Computing

The IDL Astronomy User's Library: A central repository for low-level astronomy software written in the commercial language IDL
Numerical Recipes Home Page: A standard in scientific programming
Perldoc.com - Perl Documentation
PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library: My favorite programmable plotting package

Infrared

IRSA: The Infrared Science Archives: Scientific Data Archives of NASA in infrared and sub-millimeter
2MASS at IPAC: The Two Micron All Sky Survey
470,992,970 point sources, 1,647,599 resolved sources, & 4,121,439 J, H and Ks FITS images covering the sky
DIRBE/IRAS Dust Maps: Maps of Dust IR Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and CMBR Foregrounds

Radio

Difmap: An Interactive Program for Synthesis Imaging

A research facility of the U.S. National Science Foundation that runs some of the world's most important radio telescopes.

The VLA Calibrator Manual: Essential information about calibration sources for NRAO's Very Large Aray
VLA Documentation: Essential documentation for the NRAO's Very Large Aray

Home to the Lovell Telescope and operations center for PPARC's MERLIN/VLBI National Facility and one of my former host institutions

X-Ray

Chandra

Nasa's Great X-ray Observatory

Chandra Science: Technical website for Chandra
CIAO 4.0: The standard software used to analyze Chandra data with out major bugs
Dictionary - CIAO 4.0: Dictionary of Chandra and CIAO terms
All Threads - CIAO 4.0: Analysis threads for use with CIAO

Software

HEAsoft

A package combining

A general package of software to manipulate FITS files

A package for x-ray analysis

The standard software used to analyze Chandra data with major bugs

A simulation program for Chandra observations

A Hubble Space Telescope Survey of galaxies in the Virgo cluster by some collaborators

An automated X-ray reduction program

Writing

Miscellaneous

Contact G. Sivakoff	Last Updated: September 8, 2008
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