AstroWeb: Data and Archive Centers
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1st High Energy Astrophysics Observatory
(HEAO 1. GSFC. NASA)
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The first of NASA's three High Energy Astronomy Observatories, HEAO
1 was launched aboard an Atlas Centaur rocket on 12
August 1977 and operated until 9 January 1979. During that
time, it scanned the X-ray sky almost three times over
0.2 keV - 10 MeV, provided nearly constant monitoring of
X-ray sources near the ecliptic poles, as well as more
detailed studies of a number of objects through pointed observations.
- http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/heao1.html
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2nd High Energy Astrophysics Observatory
(HEAO 2, renamed Einstein. GSFC. NASA)
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The second High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO-B) was launched into
an approximate 100-min low Earth orbit on 13 November 1978.
Renamed the Einstein Observatory, it operated (with one significant interruption)
until April 1981 and made over 5,000 targeted observations.
- http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/heao2.html
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ARTHEMIS Solar Data Archive
(ARTHEMIS)
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ARTHEMIS is an archive for solar data coming from the
THEMIS telescope, the RISE/PSPT instrument in Rome, and the Whole
Sun Catalog. The archive has RISE/PSPT data beginning with July,
1996 and running through the current date. The THEMIS data
will be available once the telescope enters full operation. The
Whole Sun Catalog aims to maintain a complete list of
all solar observations made around the world each day. In
addition, an interactive solar ephemeris is available for computing heliocentric
and geocentric coordinates.
- http://arthemis.na.astro.it/
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ASCA Data Facility
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The ASCA Data Facility, part of the NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center's Astrophysics Data Facility , is responsible
for processing low level ASCA data into
standard formatted products, distributing ASCA data to
American and European Primary (PI) and Guest (GI) investigators, and
populating the final ASCA public data archive.
- http://adfwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/asca/ascaDF.html
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Advanced Stars: a Tool for Relating Informations and Data
(ASTRID)
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ASTRID is a data base of stars in an advanced
evolutionary stage, peculiarly of red giants, AGB and post-AGB variables.
The database gathers in the same tool observational data with
comments and results from models.
It is developed at
GRAAL (Montpellier, France).
- http://www.graal.univ-montp2.fr/
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Aladin Sky Atlas
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Aladin is an interactive sky atlas, developed at CDS (Strasbourg,
France), allowing the user to visualize digitized images of any
part of the sky, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogs
or personal, user data files, and to interactively access related
data and information from the Simbad, NED, and Vizier databases
for all known objects in the field.
The set
of sky images consists of the STScI Digital Sky Survey
(DSS-I), as well as an ensemble of higher resolution images
(ESO-R and SERC plates) digitized at the MAMA facility in
Paris.
- http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/
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Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM)
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Many ACM information services are available on the Internet and
may be accessed through this document. Included in these services
is current information on the following activities: Awards, Conferences, Education,
Local Activities, Network Services, Publications, and Special Interest Groups. Other
ACM Information services are: Announcements from around the association, and
New Product Announcements. In addition, information is available from the
following affiliate organizations: Federation on Computing in the United States
and IFIP, and Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals.
- http://info.acm.org/
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Astro Space Center
(ASC)
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The Astro Space Center as a branch of Lebedev Institute
of Physics has a number of commitments for space experiments
in the areas of upper atmospheric, solar, and astronomical research
aboard Radioastron , Kvant and other space projects. Division scientists
are involved in major research thrusts that include interferometric observations,
studies of the solar atmosphere by using spectrographic techniques, and
studies of astronomical ranging from the ultraviolet through cosmic rays.
The division maintains facilities to design, construct, assemble, and calibrate
space experiments.
- http://www.asc.rssi.ru/
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Astrographic Catalogue Project
(USNO)
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The Astrographic Catalogue (AC) was an international effort designed to
photograph and measure the positions of all stars brighter than
magnitude 11.0. In total, over 4.6 million stars were observed,
many as faint as 13th magnitude. This project was started
over 100 years ago. The sky was divided among 20
observatories, by declination zones. Each observatory exposed and measured the
plates of its zone, subsequently publishing the plate measures.
The U.S. Naval Observatory has completed data entry of the
printed volumes of the AC, has completed the data reduction
of each zone, and has converted the positions to the
system defined by Hipparcos. The resulting catalog, called AC 2000,
is now available.
- http://aries.usno.navy.mil/ad/ac/ac.html
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Astronomical Data Analysis Center
(NAOJ/ADAC)
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Astronomical Data Analysis Center (ADAC) of National Astronomical Observatory, Japan
(NAOJ) provides all the catalogues in its collection on-line, including
the mirror copy of the CDS on-line catalogues and journal
tables. Both anonymous ftp and WWW interfaces are available.
- http://adac.mtk.nao.ac.jp/
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Astronomical Data Center
(ADC)
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The Astronomical Data Center (ADC), at NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, is a cooperative effort between the National
Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)/ World Data Center A for
Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A-R&S) and its parent organization, the Space
Science Data Operations Office . Currently, the ADC archives hold
more than 670 catalogs of astrometry, photometry, spectroscopy, radio, and
other miscellaneous data for stellar and nonstellar objects. The data
were acquired through exchanges with the Centre de Donn'ees Astronomiques
de Strasbourg (CDS) , other astronomical data centers throughout the
world, and by direct contributions from the international astronomical community.
- http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Astronomical Data Center FTP Archive
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ADC Catalog and Journal Table Holdings: astrometric, positional, spectroscopic, photometric
data. Cross-identifications, combined and derived data, non-stellar and extended objects,
galactic, extra-galactic data, and miscellaneous data.
- ftp://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/adc/archives/
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Astrophysical CATalogs Support System of Special Astrophysical Observatory
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Astrophysical CATalogs Support System (CATS) of the Special Astrophysical observatory
includes a large number of astrophysical catalogs (mostly radioastronomical) and
allows users to select sources from the CATS by different
parameters, to make cross-identifications with user's lists and to study
radio spectra of radio sources.
- http://cats.sao.ru/
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Astrophysics Data Facility
(ADF)
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The Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF), located at the NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center (GSFC), is responsible for designing, developing, and
operating data systems that support the processing, management, archiving and
distribution of NASA mission data. The ADF serves three broadly-defined
astrophysics disciplines: high-energy astrophysics, UV/optical astrophysics, and infrared/submillimeter/radio astrophysics. The
ADF collaborates with the GSFC Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
(LHEA) and the Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics (LASP)
in managing data for specific missions. The ADF staff also
support the astrophysics community's access to multi-mission and multi-spectral data
archives in the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).
- http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/adf/adf.html
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Astrophysics Data System Archive Service
(ADS Archive)
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This service provides access and search capability to Einstein Observatory
Data, including the 29 CDROMs released by the Einstein Observatory
project at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. These data include image
files and photon event list files from the Image Proportional
Counter (IPC) and the High Resolution Imager (HRI) instruments.
- http://adsarc.harvard.edu/einstein_service.html
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Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine
(AMASE)
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AMASE is an online astrophysics catalog developed using object-oriented database
(OODB) technology to help researchers locate multi-mission data in the
NASA archives.
- http://amase.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Atomic Data for Astrophysics
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This service provides links to archives of atomic data for
astrophysics at the University of Kentucky and other sites accessible
through the WWW. The ADfA page is regularly updated.
- http://www.pa.uky.edu/~verner/atom.html
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Atomic Line List
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The atomic line list is a compilation of approximately 855,000
allowed, intercombination and forbidden atomic transitions with wavelengths in the
range from 0.5 Å to 1000 µm. Its primary intention
is to allow the identification of observed atomic absorption or
emission features. The list is nearly complete for all ionization
stages of all elements up to zinc. Transition probabilities are
available for nearly 14% of the lines; they are mostly
derived from Opacity Project data.
- http://www.pa.uky.edu/~peter/atomic/
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BAse Solaire Sol 2000
(BASS2000)
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French national database for solar observations, created as a support
for THEMIS data and in complement of the MEDOC database of space observations (SOHO). [in French]
- http://bass2000.bagn.obs-mip.fr/
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BAse Solaire Sol 2000 - Meudon site
(BASS2000)
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A full disk archive of the Sun.
- http://mesola.obspm.fr/
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Backgrounds Data Center
(BCOE)
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The Backgrounds Data Center (BDC) is part of the Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). The BDC was established to assist
the ballistic and theater missile defense community with its requirements
for information to evaluate the Strategic Defense System feasibility, development,
and implementation. The BDC is located at the Naval Research
Laboratory in Washington D.C., and is part of the Space
Science Division. Specifically, the BDC archives, catalogs, and distributes BMDO
experiment program data relating to Earth, atmospheric, and celestial background
scenes. Emphasis is placed on the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared
regions of the spectrum.
- http://bcoe.nrl.navy.mil/
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Beijing astronomical Data Center
(BDC)
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The Beijing astronomical Data Center (BDC) is maintained both by
the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Beijing Astronomical Observatory.
The main tasks of the Center are collecting astronomical data
and documentary information for Chinese astronomers to refer to, introducing
Chinese astronomical data into world astronomical data system, exchanging data
with other data centers.
- http://www.bao.ac.cn/bdc/
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BeppoSAX Mission
(SAX)
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The X-ray astronomy satellite BeppoSAX (Satellite per Astronomia X "Beppo"
in honor of Giuseppe Occhialini) is a project of
the Italian Space Agency (ASI) with participation of the
Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programs (NIVR).
In the framework
of past and future X-ray missions BeppoSAX stands out for
its wide spectral coverage, ranging from 0.1 to over 200
keV. The sensitivity of the scientific payload allows the detailed
study over the entire energy band of sources as weak
as about 1/20 of 3C273. This opens new perspectives in
the study of broad band X-ray spectra and variability of
cosmic sources.
- http://www.sdc.asi.it/
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Besancon Double and Multiple Star Database
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The aim of the Double and Multiple Star Database of
the Besançon Observatory is to provide a set of
specific informations, as complete as possible, for different kinds of
binary and multiple stars: visual, spectroscopic, photometric, interferometric, astrometric, by
occultation, etc.
- http://bdb.obs-besancon.fr/
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CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues
(Astronomer's Bazaar)
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This on-line service, provided by the CDS, Strasbourg, gives access
to several thousand astronomical data catalogues and tables. The VizieR catalog browser provides additional search functionalities for a large
fraction of these catalogues.
- http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Cats.html
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CHIANTI: A database for astrophysical emission line spectroscopy
(CHIANTI)
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CHIANTI is a database that contains the most accurate data
available for the calculation of emission line intensities as a
function of both temperature and density. The database is essentially
complete for wavelengths greater than 50 Angstroms and is to
be extended to shorter wavelength. A library of IDL procedures
is included.
- http://wwwsolar.nrl.navy.mil/chianti.html
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CLEMENTINE images
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The CLEMENTINE Spacecraft, was launched on 25 January 1994, and
performed in 71 days the first multi-spectral systematic mapping of
the moon. Clementine produced 1,800,000 images that represents approximately a
volume of 55 Go of data. These data are distributed
by the PDS on 90 CD-ROMS, and are also available
on line (stored on 55 Go drives) thanks to this
server provided by CNES.
- http://clementine.cnes.fr/index.en.html
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Canada France Hawaii Telescope - Archive at CADC
(CFHT)
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All the CFHT data are now being archived since September
18, 1992 and the proprietary period is 2 years. After
that time, they become public and are available world wide.
- http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/cfht/cfht.html
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Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
(CADC)
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The CADC was established in 1986 as one of three
world-wide distribution centres for data from the Hubble Space Telescope
and is part of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria,
B.C. The CADC mandate has recently expanded and we are
now archiving data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope located on the
Big Island of Hawaii. CADC has hosted ADASS'93
(Oct 13-15, 1993).
- http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/CADC-homepage.html
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Cassini Mission to Saturn
(UltraViolet Imaging Spectrograph, UVIS)
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Saturn and Titan will be the destination for the Cassini
mission, a project under joint development by NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
The U.S. portion of the mission is managed for NASA
by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- http://lasp.colorado.edu/cassini/
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Catalog of Infrared Observations
(CIO)
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The Catalog of Infrared Observations is a database of over
200,000 published infrared observations of more than 10,000 individual astronomical
sources over the wavelength range from 1 to 1000 microns.
The catalog is available for downloading via ftp.
- http://iuewww.gsfc.nasa.gov/cio/cio_homepage.html
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Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants
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This is a catalogue of Galactic SNRs, giving a summary
listing of the parameters for each remnant, and detailed listings
(with references) for each object. The documentation gives a description
of the entries, and notes on new SNRs included in
this version of the catalogue, objects no longer thought to
be SNRs, and possible SNRs not included in the catalogue.
- http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/
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Center for Advanced Space Studies
(CASS)
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The Center for Advanced Space Studies is a major research
and conference facility built by Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
in 1991 in Houston, Texas. Since the completion of the
CASS facility in December 1991, it has housed the four
Houston activities of USRA: Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), Exploration
Science Institute (ESI), Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS), Division
of Educational Programs (DEP).
- http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/CASS_home.html
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Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
(CEPS / RPIF)
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Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and its Regional Planetary
Image Facility (RPIF) located at the National Air and Space
Museum, Smithsonian Institution are pleased to announce the availability of
its WWW server. The purpose of this NASA supported RPIF
is to act as a reference library providing planetary science
researchers with access to the extensive collection of image data
from planetary missions. Currently we are in the process of
placing some of the 300,000 photographs and images of the
planets and their satellites in our collection online.
- http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/
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Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics
(CEA / EUVE)
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The Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (CEA) opened in September,
1990. CEA represents the culmination of twenty years of research
and student training in the field of EUV astronomy brought
to focus by the launch of NASA's research mission, the
University of California at Berkeley Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE), on
June 7, 1992.
- http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/
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Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
(CBAT)
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The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) operates at the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under the auspices of Commission 6 of
the International Astronomical Union and under the direction of Dr.
Brian G. Marsden. The CBAT is responsible for the dissemination
of information on transient astronomical events, via the IAU Circulars
(IAUCs), a series of postcard-sized announcements issued at irregular intervals.
The IAUCs are also available in electronic form.
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/cbat.html
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Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg
(CDS)
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The CDS is a data center dedicated to the collection
and worldwide distribution of astronomical data. It is located at
the Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France. The CDS hosts the
SIMBAD astronomical database, the world reference database
for the identification of astronomical objects. The CDS site includes
access to SIMBAD on the Web, various bibliographic services
and mirror sites, the AstroWeb pages and the Star*s Family
of directories, the TOPBase of the Opacity project, etc.
It also includes the famous Astronomer's Bazaar ,
a unique feature allowing to select astronomical catalogues by keyword
or author's name, among the library of several thousands catalogues
and tables available on line, and to actually retrieve the
corresponding files. This is completed by the VizieR service
for querying catalogues and tables.
- http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html
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Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS AnonFTP site)
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Documents & Files related to Astronomical Catalogues and Publications; Astrometric
catalogues; Photometric catalogues; Spectroscopic catalogues; Cross-Identifications; Combined catalogues; Miscellaneous Catalogues;
Non-stellar Objects; Radio catalogues. Tables published in Astron. Astrophys; Astron.
Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.; Astron. J.; Astrophys. J.; Astrophys. J. Suppl.
Ser.; IAU Symposium; Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. - Observations
of Variable Stars by the " Association Francaise d'Observateurs d'Etoiles
Variables" ; How to access and use The Opacity Project
dataBASE, providing extensive atomic data. A WWW version of
the same services is available.
- ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/
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Centre de Prevision de l'activite solaire et geomagnetique
(RWC MEUDON)
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Forecast of solar activity: solar cm flux, solar flares.
Forecast of geomagnetic activity: geomagnetic indices, geomagnetic storms.
Forecast
of the solar cycle.
Data base for cosmic rays
from Kerguelen and Terre Adelie station. [in French]
- http://previ.obspm.fr/previ/
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Centre de donnees planetaires
(IAS, Orsay)
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Web site of the planetary science group of Institut d'Astrophysique
Spatiale (Orsay, France), mostly devoted to:
- Early solar system
and primordial matter,
- Planetary surfaces, atmospheres and magnetospheres,
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Search for extrasolar planets,
- Space and ground-based observations,
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Infrared imaging spectroscopy.
The site also contains numerous links
in planetary science, in particular to sites specialized in infrared
spectroscopy. Research pages are available in English, although most of
the information pages are in French.
- http://www.ias.fr/cdp/
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Chandra X-ray Observatory (AXAF) - Science Center
(ASC)
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The Chandra (AXAF) Science Center is located at the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The purpose of the ASC
is to provide the support required by the science community
to realize fully the potential of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
- http://asc.harvard.edu/
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Compton Observatory Science Support Center
(COSSC. GSFC. NASA)
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The COSSC data archive contains information and data related to
the following experiments
- CGRO Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
- BATSE Burst And Transient Source Experiment
- COMPTEL Imaging
Compton Telescope
- EGRET Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope
- OSSE Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment
- http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cossc/cossc.html
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Compton/GRO Observatory Science Support Center/Guest Observer
(Facility)
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Query the Library Database; Archive Data Selector; Archive Data Selector
Demonstrator; Trouble Report Generator; Access the GRONEWS Bulletin Board
- telnet://gof@antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky
(DENIS - Leiden)
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DENIS will be a complete deep near infrared survey of
the southern sky, with the objective to provide full coverage
in 2 near infrared bands (J at 1.25 micron and
K at 2.2 micron) and one optical band (I at
0.8 micron), using a ground-based telescope and digital array detectors.
The products of this survey will be databases of calibrated
images, extended sources, and small objects. In addition catalogs of
small and extended sources will be produced. We expect the
survey to be completed within five years; restricted access to
the databases is possible during the second half of the
survey. The production of catalogs (to be distributed) will take
a few additional years.
- http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/denis/
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DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky: Point Source Database
(DENIS)
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DENIS is a deep astronomical survey of the Southern Sky
in two near-infrared bands (J at 1.25 µ and K
at 2.16 µ) and one optical band (I at 0.8
µ) simultaneously, conducted by a European consortium, using a one
meter telescope (ESO, La Silla). The survey started in 1996
and is expected to be completed in 2000.
The Centre
de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) is implementing the final
point source databases and is providing access of the processed
and calibrated data to the worldwide community.
- http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/denis.html
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DIRA 2
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The Astronet DIRA2 database holds more than 270 astronomical catalogues.
The user can select catalogue data an receive output in
text or FITS-table format. The Dira2 sofware, that can be
used to manage personal database and display data, is available
for more platforms. The server is located in Italy at
CNR Istituto di Radioastronomia.
- http://terra.bo.cnr.it/ira/dira/dira_access.html
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Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Data Archive
(DMSP)
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DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun-synchronous
satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and solar-terrestrial physics environments. NGDC maintains
an archive of all data recorded on DMSP satellites as
relayed to NGDC by Air Force Global Weather Central. Data
from March 1992 to March 1994, are considered to be
experimental. After March 1994, the system should be fully operational.
- http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html
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Digitized Sky Survey at LEDAS
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This service provides access to digitized optical Schmidt plates forming
the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). The DSS is particularly
useful in producing finding charts. Users are able to tailor
the size of the output image (from 17" to 1°)
to suit their particular needs.
- http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk/DSSimage
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ESO / ST-ECF Data Archive
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European Southern Observatory / Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
- http://arch-http.hq.eso.org/ESO-ECF-Archive.html
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ESO Science Archive Facility
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You can search the following ESO Databases: NTT EMMI/SUSI, Science
Archive Observation Programme Schedule, Seeing monitor data for La Silla,
Extinction coefficients for La Silla, Spectral Plates, Preprints, Publications of
the ESO User's Community.
You can search the following
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Databases: HST Science Exposures, HST Abstracts
& Proposals, HST Abstracts - full text, HST Publications, FOS/GHRS
observations by target class.
Other Services at the ESO/ST-ECF
Archive: Astronomical Catalogues, The Digitized Sky Survey, The HST Guide
Star Catalogue, The ESO Sky Calendar tool, A review of
today's data archive technology.
- http://archive.eso.org/
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EXOSAT database, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
(telnet)
- telnet://xray@exosat.estec.esa.nl/
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Einstein Data Archive
(SAO, Cambridge, MA)
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The Einstein Observatory was a satellite based imaging X-ray telescope
in operation from November 1978 to April 1981. The focal
plane detectors included two Imaging Proportional Counters (IPC), three High
Resolution Imagers, an Objective Grating Spectrometer (OGS), a Focal Plane
Crystal Spectrometer (FPCS) and a Solid State Spectrometer (SSS). The
most commonly used instrument was the IPC, which made nearly
4000 observations of astronomical sources. This page gives information about
the Einstein data archive, and about access to Einstein Data.
[under reconstruction]
- http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~eriksen/einstein/einstein.html
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Einstein On-Line Service - Einline
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Contains an extensive set of Radio Astronomy catalogs.
- telnet://einline@einline.harvard.edu/
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European Pulsar Network Data Archive
(EPN data archive)
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The European Pulsar Network is maintaining an archive of
published data: the database consists largely of pulse profiles but
may in the future contain pulse time-of-arrival measurements.
- http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/pulsar/data/
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European Space Operations Centre
(ESA/ESOC)
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ESOC is the satellite control centre of the European Space
Agency (ESA). It is responsible for the operations of all
satellites and related ground stations and communications network.
- http://www.esoc.esa.de/
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European X-ray Observatory
(EXOSAT at GSFC. NASA)
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The European Space Agency's X-ray Observatory, EXOSAT, was operational from
May 1983 to April 1986. During that time, EXOSAT made
1780 observations of a wide variety of objects, including active
galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, X-ray binaries,
clusters of galaxies, and supernova remnants.
- http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/exosat.html
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Extragalactic Cepheid Database
(ECD)
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The Extragalactic Cepheid Database (ECD) is a project of the
LEDA team. It is made up of all known classical
Extragalactic Cepheids. It presents 3550 magnitude measurements on more than
1300 Cepheids in about 40 galaxies, as well as light
curves quality flags, and is regularly updated. It also allows
to plot suitable PL-relations and to compute distance moduli based
on both V- and I-bands Hipparcos PL-relations.
- http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/~planoix/ECD/
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Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
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This resource, maintained by Jean Schneider (Observatoire de Paris), provides
updated information about the search for extrasolar planets.
It
includes a Catalog of Extrasolar Planets and a list
of meetings.
- http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html
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Extreme UltraViolet Explorer (EUVE) Archive
(at HEASARC)
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A copy of the EUVE Final Archive is at HEASARC
for the service of the community of high-enregy astrophysicists.
- http://euve.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Extreme UltraViolet Explorer (EUVE) Archive
(at CEA Berkeley)
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The EUVE Archive at the Center for EUV Astrophysics became
operational immediately following the launch of the EUVE satellite, in
the summer of 1992, and was established to archive and
distribute EUVE-related materials to the scientific community.
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has been designated as
an alternative EUVE Archive, with the prime responsibility of maintaining
the existing IRAF-based analysis software and acting as an interface
for optical and ultraviolet astronomers.
- http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/~science/html/Archive.html
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Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) Archive
(at STScI)
- http://archive.stsci.edu/euve/
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Galactic Cepheid Database
(DDO)
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The Galactic Cepheid Database is a project of J. Donald
Fernie that lists all known Population I cepheids. It consists
of four tables listing data on 505 cepheids in the
Galaxy. Information includes positional data, color excess determinations, periods, amplitudes
and means of V, B and B-V derived by Fourier
fits to magnitude and intensity light curves, radial velocities, distances,
Z values, etc. Simple string searches of the database are
possible using WWW client software such as NCSA Mosaic. The
tables can be viewed in PostScript format or retrieved in
either ascii or dBase IV versions.
- http://ddo.astro.utoronto.ca/cepheids.html
-
HST Science Data Archive
(STScI, Baltimore, MD)
-
(telnet, password='archive')
- telnet://guest@stdatu.stsci.edu/
-
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
(HEASARC)
-
The purpose of the HEASARC is to support a multi-mission
archive facility in high energy astrophysics for scientists all over
the world. Data from space-borne instruments on spacecraft, such as
ROSAT, ASCA (formerly Astro-D), GRO (Compton), BBXRT, HEAO 1, HEAO
2 (Einstein), EXOSAT, and XTE are provided, along with a
knowledgeable science-user support staff and tools to analyze mutliple datasets.
The HEASARC activity is a joint effort between the Laboratory
for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA)and the National Space Science Data
Center (NSSDC). (there is also a Gopher )
- http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
-
Hubble Space Telescope Data Archive
(STScI)
- http://archive.stsci.edu/
-
Hypercat
(CRAL-Observatoire de Lyon)
-
Hypercat is an interface to databases and to local catalogues
of extragalactic data.
These catalogues concern various characteristics of galaxies:
Optical photometry, Internal kinematics, Metallicity.
- http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/~prugniel/cgi-bin/hypercat/
-
INTEGRAL Science Data Centre
-
The INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is a medium size
mission of the European Space Agency dedicated to gamma-ray
astronomy. The INTEGRAL Science Data Center (ISDC) located in Geneva
is the link between the astronomical community at large and
the INTEGRAL spacecraft.
- http://obswww.unige.ch/isdc/
-
INTERBALL Exchange Information Server
-
This server provides the Interball and International scientific community with
the means to access to Interball data processed at CNES
Toulouse and to exchange files.
- http://www-projet.cst.cnes.fr:8000/
-
IPAC IRSKY observation planning tool
-
IRSKY is an observation planning tool, which allows display of
IRAS images, overlay of catalogs on the images, and information
on the ISO satellite, all useful in planning ISO observations.
- Access IRSKY.
- IBIS (IRSKY Batch
Inquiry System) is an electronic mail, batch version of IRSKY.
IBIS will compute the infrared sky background and confusion noise
for targets using parameters and positions from the input file
that it receives.
- http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/ipac/services/irsky.html
-
IUE Archive
(MAST)
-
The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) performed spectrophotometry at high (0.1-0.3
Å) and low (6-7 Å) resolution between 1150 Å and
3200 Å.
Over 104,000 ultraviolet spectra were obtained with
IUE between January 26, 1978, and September 30, 1996.
This is part of the Multimission Archive at STScI.
- http://archive.stsci.edu/iue/
-
IUE Newly Extracted Spectra
(INES)
-
This data server provides access to IUE Final Archive data,
processed with the INES system. It was developed by the
ESA IUE project at VILSPA and is maintained and
distributed by ESA and LAEFF, the Principal Centre for
INES data. LAEFF is part of the Space Science Division
of INTA.
- http://ines.vilspa.esa.es/ines/
-
IUE VILSPA archive, Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station,
(Madrid, Spain)
-
Password is 'db'.
- telnet://vilspa@vilspa.esa.es/
-
Information and On-line Data in Astronomy
-
This is the on-line complement of the book "Information &
On-line Data in Astronomy", Daniel Egret & Miguel A. Albrecht
(Editors), published by Kluwer Acad. Publ. (Sept. 1995). It includes
summary descriptions of the databases, archives, and information systems presented
in the printed version, together with the complete access pointers
(kept up-to-date) and, when available, ready-to-use hyperlinks to the original
data systems.
- http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/data-online.html
-
InfraRed Science Archive
(IRSA, NASA/IPAC)
-
The NASA/IPAC InfraRed Science Archive (IRSA) is a project focused
on providing software and Internet services to facilitate astronomical discoveries,
support the production of new astronomical data products, and to
plan future observations utilizing the data archives from infrared astrophysics
missions supported at IPAC.
- http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/
-
Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) Data Products
-
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite surveyed almost the entire sky in
four infrared bands and obtained deeper maps and low-resolution spectra
of thousands of infrared sources. All of the IRAS data
products released by IPAC, including catalogs and images, are
accessible through this interface, provided by the Astrophysics Data
Facility at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The interface also
includes links to many related Astronomical Data Center catalogs.
- http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/iras/iras_home.html
-
Infrared Processing & Analysis Center
(IPAC)
-
The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) exists to carry
out large, data-intensive processing tasks of critical importance to NASA's
infrared astronomy program, and to provide scientific expertise on those
projects to the astronomical community. IPAC is operated by the
California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory under contract to
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
- http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/
-
Infrared Space Observatory Data Centre
(IDC)
-
The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) is an ESA (European
Space Agency) mission with the participation of ISAS (Japan)
and NASA (USA).
The ISO Data Archive is
maintained at the ISO Data Centre, which is based
at Villafranca, Madrid, and is part of the Astrophysics Division of the Space Science Department of ESA.
- http://www.iso.vilspa.esa.es/users/idc/IDC.html
-
Innsbruck - Database of Galactic Planetary Nebulae
- http://ast2.uibk.ac.at/
-
International Earth Rotation Service - Central Bureau
(IERS, Paris)
-
The mission of the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) is
to provide timely and accurate data on the Earth's rotation
for current use and long-term studies.
The IERS is
an interdisciplinary service that maintains key connections between astronomy, geodesy
and geophysics.
- http://hpiers.obspm.fr/
-
International Ultraviolet Explorer
(IUE)
-
The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite was launched on the
26th of January 1978 by a Thor-Delta rocket from Cape
Kennedy and transferred into a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic
Ocean. Information on the project is available at:
- http://www.vilspa.esa.es/iue/iue.html
-
Isaac Newton Group (la Palma) Data Centre
-
Observations taken since 1986 with the INT, JKT and WHT
telescopes.
- http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/ingarch/
-
JCMT/UK_ESO_Schmidt/AAT Archive Queries
(telnet through Internet-SPAN gateway)
-
Login at first prompt with '19889::'
then at second
prompt with 'arcquery' for JCMT,
or 'ukscat' for UK +
ESO Schmidt, AAT Plate Catalogs.
- telnet://east.gsfc.nasa.gov/
-
Joint Scientific and Educational Center
(JSEC)
-
Goals of the Center: Joint Astrophysical Research by universities and
Academy of Sciences at BTA (6m telescope) and RATAN-600- the
largest Russian astrophysical instruments. / Promotion of high quality education
in Astrophysics and Radioastronomy / Development of database for astronomy
research and improvement of educational standards in universities specializing in
astronomy. / Application of new methods and technologies to the
largest telescopes of Academy of Sciences and development of instrumental
base for modern astrophysical research and high quality education.
- http://brown.nord.nw.ru/
-
Journal of Astronomical Data
-
The Journal of Astronomical Data accepts raw and reduced data
from observations as well as from theoretical research, reduction software,
complete descriptions of new instruments, PhD theses with extensive data
tables, catalogues, graphs, computer code, and also lengthy articles, or
regular articles accompanied by the data on which it is
based.
Contributions describe in short the astrophysical background and
motive for the scientific work done, a complete description of
the data-collecting process, an assessment of the accuracy of the
data, next to the data themselves.
All data are
published on CD-ROM.
- http://www.twinpress.nl/jad.htm
-
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
(LHEA)
-
The Laboratory was reorganized in October 1995 into two science
and two technical support branches. The science branches are the
"X-ray Astrophysics Branch" and the "Gamma Ray and Cosmic Ray
Astrophysics Branch". The latter contains several subgroups including low and
high energy cosmic rays, low and high energy gamma-rays, and
a theoretical group. In addition to the four branches there
is an "Office for Guest Investigator Programs" with overall responsibility
for the utilization by the astrophysics community of several high
energy astrophysics observatories that the laboratory administers ( ROSAT, ASCA,
CGRO and XTE).
- http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/
-
Lausanne - General Catalogue of Photometric Data
(GCPD)
-
The General Catalogue of Photometric Data (GCPD) built at the
Institute of Astronomy of the University of Lausanne contains photometric
data for about 200000 stars from some 75 different systems,
taken from about 3300 papers. The WWW server allows to
query the database ad retrieve any data from any photometric
system. Searching the references by authors' names and keywords from
the titles offers a possibility to retrieve the data from
each of the 3300 papers directly.
- http://obswww.unige.ch/gcpd/gcpd.html
-
Leicester Database and Archive Service
(LEDAS)
-
LEDAS provides an on-line astronomical database service, access to archive
data from high-energy astrophysics satellite missions, including EXOSAT, Ginga, ROSAT,
ASCA and Chandra and scientific support for guest observers.
- http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk/
-
Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic DAtabase
(LEDA)
-
Created in 1983, LEDA is the oldest Extragalactic Database. It
gives more than 60 of the most important parameters for
about 100.000 galaxies. It provides charts and images through an
X11 interface. In addition, a batch mode is available and
also a very powerful SQL-like query language.
- http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/leda/home_leda.html
-
MEDOC
-
MEDOC (Multi-Experiment Data Operations Center for SOHO) is designed to
meet the needs of European SOHO Investigators who wish to
work together on the data analysis and the preparation of
joint observations using SOHO instruments and also European solar ground-based
Observatories. This European Centre complements the SOHO facilities (Experiment
Operations Facility, Experiment Analysis Facility, U.S. SOHO Archive
) located in GSFC (NASA).
- http://www.medoc-ias.u-psud.fr/
-
Magellan Mission to Venus - Online Resources
(PDS Imaging Node. JPL. NASA)
-
A list of high-quality web-based resources related to the Magellan
mission to Venus. Includes direct links to the PDS-archived data
stored in CD-ROM jukeboxes, and a browser to view the
data.
- http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/public/magellan/magellan.html
-
McMaster Cepheid Photometry and Radial Velocity Archive
-
This site contains ASCII data tables of photometry and radial
velocities for Galactic and Extragalactic Cepheids (both Classical and Type
II). Data is presented as published and full citations to
the original work are given. Currently, data are sorted according
to star name.
- http://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/Cepheid/
-
MediaTheque
-
The Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre (CDS) is collecting modern media
offering material related to astronomy and space sciences.
- http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/mediatheque.html
-
Midcourse Space Experiment
(MSX)
-
The MSX observatory is a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization project
which offers major benefits for both the defense and civilian
sectors. It was launched on a Delta II vehicle on
April 24, 1996, into a 900 km, polar, near-Sun synchronous
orbit. The spacecraft featured an advanced multispectral image capability to
gather data on test targets and space background phenomena.
The infrared sensors operated at 11 to 12 degrees Kelvin
by employing a solid hydrogen cryostat. The IR instruments span
the range 4.2 - 26 microns. The focal plane array
consists of five bands and the radiometer beam-size is more
than 25 times smaller than IRAS. As a result, much
greater spatial resolution than anything currently available has been obtained.
The cryogen phase of the mission ended on 26 February
1997. During the ten month cryogen phase of the mission
over 200 Giga Bytes of data on Celestial Backgrounds were
obtained.
See the MSX Celestial Backgrounds Team
Home Page for additional details.
- http://scies.plh.af.mil:8600/
-
Minor Planet Center
-
The Minor Planet Center is a service of Commission 20
of the International Astronomical Union and operates at the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory under the direction of Dr. Brian Marsden. The
Minor Planet Center is responible for the collection and dissemination
of astrometric observations and orbits for minor planets and comets.
- http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/mpc.html
-
Multimission Archive at STScI
(MAST)
-
The Multimission Archive at STScI is being developed to support
a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus
on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and
near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
- http://archive.stsci.edu/mast.html
-
NASA ADC Online Information System
- http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/archive_search.html
-
NASA Data Archive Distribution Service
(NDADS)
-
The GSFC Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO), though its
various branches (the Astrophysics Data Facility, the Space Physics Data
Facility, and the National Space Science Data Center) offers access
to a wide selection of Space Science Data which are
contained in the NASA Data Archive and Distribution Service (NDADS).
Currently, the NDADS near-line archive contains about 1.5 Terrabytes of
Astrophysics, Space Physics and Solar Physics Data from 32 individual
'projects'.
- http://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov/
-
NASA Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics
(LHEA, at GSFC)
- http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/lhea/homepg_lhea.html
-
NASA National Space Science Data Center
(NSSDC)
-
The primary responsibility of the NSSDC is to further the
use of NASA spaceflight mission data. The NSSDC also provides
data from some ground-based and non-NASA sources which are considered
to be important adjuncts to the NASA space-based data. The
Data Center maintains and distributes documentation, indexes and catalogs about
the data in its archives, and similar information about important
space mission datasets maintained by other institutions.
- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
-
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
(NED)
-
Research tool providing access to a broad range of published
extragalactic data. NED is continuously being updated and augmented. It
is the systematic merger of major catalogs of extragalactic objects
covering all wavelengths, and of object lists appearing in the
refereed literature.
NED contains about 800,000 objects, along with
names, redshifts, positions, bibliographic references, photometric measurements, and notes. The
Web interface of NED started recently serving images of objects
at various wavelengths.
- http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
-
NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library
(NCSA ADIL)
-
The purpose of the NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library is
to collect fully processed astronomical images in FITS format format
and make them available to the research community and the
general public via the World Wide Web. The collection will
contain images from research observatories all over the world and
taken at all wavebands.
- http://imagelib.ncsa.uiuc.edu/imagelib.html
-
NSSDC Astronomy and Astrophysics Home Page
-
NSSDC's Astronomy and Astrophysics Home Page offers information
about online data and services, including access to a WAIS-searchable
index of more than 700 astronomical catalogs; high-level project descriptions
for such projects as ASCA, ROSAT, EUVE, HST, and COBE;
and links to many other popular astronomy and astrophysics resources.
- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/astro_home.html
-
NSSDC's Online Data Information Services
(NODIS, at NSSDC)
-
NODIS is a login account available on NSSDC's VAX computer
which provides menu-based access to data and information services provided
by NSSDC and by the Space Physics Data Facility. NODIS
is now being retired, since most of its services are
now available via the World Wide Web (WWW).
- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/about_nodis.html
-
National Astronomical Observatory of JAPAN - Astronomical Data Analysis Center
(NAOJ-ADAC)
-
On-line Access Interface to Astronomical Data.
- http://adac.mtk.nao.ac.jp/index.shtml
-
National Oceanic Data Center
(NODC)
- http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
-
North Carolina State University - Mars Mission Research Center
-
Co-located at North Carolina State University in Raleigh (NCSU) and
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro (A&T),
the Mars Mission Research Center (M2RC) is one of eight
University Space Engineering Centers established by NASA in 1988. The
goal of the Center is to focus on research and
educational technologies necessary for planetary exploration, especially transportation to and
from Mars.
- http://www.mae.ncsu.edu/mmrc/
-
OAO-3 (Copernicus) Archive
-
The Copernicus satellite, otherwise known as the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
3 (OAO-3), obtained high resolution far- (900-1560 Å) and near-
(1650-3150 Å) ultraviolet spectra of 551 objects, primarily bright stars,
from 1972 to 1981.
This is part of the
Multimission Archive at STsCI (MAST).
- http://archive.stsci.edu/copernicus/
-
Open Cluster Database
(WEBDA)
-
WEBDA is a site devoted to observations and data on
stars in open clusters. The database collects information on more
than 100,000 stars in some 500 open clusters. Various facilities
are offered to perform selections on star clusters and access
the available data for each cluster. The database query through
cluster maps is a main feature of the interface. A
place where anybody should be able to get the desired
data and contribute his or her own observations.
- http://obswww.unige.ch/webda/
-
PDS Imaging Node's Planetary Image Atlas
(PDSIMG Atlas)
-
The Atlas is designed to be a single interface through
which you can search for, display, and download full resolution
data for all planetary missions. It will eventually replace individual
existing browsers. Until that time, links to the individual browsers
are provided from this central location. Current missions included in
the Atlas are: Magellan, Clementine, Viking, Mars Pathfinder, and Galileo.
- http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/public/Atlas/Atlas.html
-
PDS Planetary Rings Node
-
The Planetary Rings Node is responsible for restoring, archiving and
publishing datasets describing planetary ring systems. This includes all the
relevant datasets aquired from previous and future spacecraft, as well
as from Earth-based observatories. In order to support research with
these datasets, the node also provides expert assistance, catalog information
to help scientists pinpoint the most relevant data, and a
suite of software tools to simplify data manipulation.
- http://ringside.arc.nasa.gov/
-
Planetary Data System Imaging Node
(PDSIMG)
-
The Imaging Node of the Planetary Data System is the
curator of NASA's primary digital image collections from past, present,
and future planetary missions. The node provides to the NASA
planetary science community the digital image archives, necessary ancillary datasets,
software tools, and technical expertise necessary to fully utilize the
vast collection of digital planetary imagery.
- http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/
-
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
(ROE)
-
This site offers information about the extensive activities of the
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, a PPARC establishment responsible for building common-user
IR and sub-mm instrumentation and managing telescope sites and data
archive resources, as well as the UK Schmidt Telescope and
the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine. The ROE site also has links
to, or acts as the home page for:
-
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh;
- latest research
e-prints;
- the Crawford library;
- the ROE Visitor Centre;
- the UKIRT data archive;
- Public Understanding of Science;
- ROE Photolabs;
- Teacher Research Inititive
and much more
information besides.
- http://www.roe.ac.uk/
-
SAO Telescope Data Center
(RVSAO, RGSC, SKYMAP Software)
-
Includes software packages: RVSAO, an IRAF package for finding
radial velocities from spectra; RGSC a program for searching
the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog; SKYMAP a
program for mapping star catalogs onto the sky; STAR
a program for searching star catalogs
- http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/TDC.html
-
SkyCat
(ESO)
-
SkyCat is a tool developed at the European Southern Observatory
(ESO) that combines visualization of images and access to catalogs
and archive data for astronomy.
- http://archive.eso.org/skycat/
-
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)
-
Astrophysics Data System; AXAF Science Center; Data analysis for the
Einstein Observatory; Jonathan McDowell's quasar energy distribution database and software
library; PROS 2.2 software - README
- ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/
-
Solar Data Analysis Center
(SDAC)
-
The SDAC at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center serves current
solar ground- and spaced-based imagery, text, figures, maps, and tables
of NASA eclipse bulletins, solar flare data from the Compton
GRO BATSE experiment and the Yohkoh spacecraft, and science operations
planning information for the SOHO Science Working Team.... and more
to come.
- http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/sdac.html
-
Solar Information Center
-
The Solar Information Center provides access to the following services:
SolarData: a community-based catalogue and online data service for Solar
Physics research archives; SolarMail: an electronic mail service and personal
information database for Solar Physics; Meetings: conferences, symposia, etc. on
Solar Physics and related fields of interest; Positions: available in
Solar Physics and closely related fields; SolarNews archive: an electronic
newsletter for the solar community; Bulletin Board: a community bulletin
board for temporary postings of timely information
- http://solar.stanford.edu/english.html
-
Solar UV Atlas from HRTS
(HRTS data)
-
Through the generosity of Dr. Pål Brekke of the University
of Oslo, the High Resolution Spectrograph and Telescope (HRTS) ultraviolet
solar atlas is now available on the Web. Click here
for more information.
- http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/uv_atlas/atlas.html
-
Solar-Terrestrial Physics Home Page
(STP)
-
Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of the National Geophysical Data Center home
page. Includes several various STP disciplines within the Center: geomagnetism, Iononosphere, Solar and Upper
Atmosphere, and two satellte programs: GOES and DMSP.
- http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/stp.html
-
Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
(ST-ECF)
-
The ST-ECF was established in 1984 jointly by the European
Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory and is located
at the ESO headquarters at Garching near Munich. The ST-ECF
supports the European astromical community in exploiting the research opportunities
provided by the earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The ST-ECF provides
detailed technical information about the HST and its science instruments,
supports European astronomers in the preparation of HST observing proposals,
coordinates the development of computer software tuned to the specific
data analysis needs of HST users, operates and maintains an
archive of all the scientific data collected by HST, and
acts as a European centre for associated meetings and workshops.
In all of these duties the ST-ECF staff maintains close
contacts with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore,
which is charged with the scientific operation of the HST
observatory.
- http://ecf.hq.eso.org/ST-ECF-homepage.html
-
Space Telescope Science Institute
(STScI)
-
STScI is responsible for the scientific operations of the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST). STScI is operated by Associated Universities for
Research in Astronomy (AURA) under contract to NASA.
- http://www.stsci.edu/
-
Standard Objects For Astronomy
(SOFA)
-
This web site, called SOFA (Standard Objects For Astronomy) allows
to easily search standard objects. Standard objects mean stars, galaxies,
etc. with physical properties (magnitude, spectrum,...) typical of their class,
that the astronomers observe to calibrate their data, or that
can be used as element of comparison.
- http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/~corporon/sofa.html
-
Star*s Family
-
The Star*s Family is a growing collection of directories, dictionaries,
databases and related products on astronomy, space sciences, as well
as related fields, organizations and people. StarWorlds, StarBits,
and StarHeads: are available on-line.
- http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/starsfamily.html
-
Statistical Consulting Center for Astronomy
(SCCA)
-
The SCCA provides prompt high-quality statistical advice for the astronomical
community. It is an interdisciplinary team of faculty at Penn
State with contacts throughout the international statistical community. A wide
range of issues arising in astronomical data analysis can be
addressed. Questions and answers are made available on the WWW.
- http://www.stat.psu.edu/~mga/scca/
-
Synthetic Spectra of B Main-Sequence Stars from 3000 - 10000
-
This Web page provides a simple interactive tool for line
identification in B stars along the main sequence. The calculation
makes use of the atomic line list of Kurucz &
Bell (1995). For one of six possible effective temperatures between
10000 and 35000 K and an arbitrary wavelength range between
3000 and 10000 Å a normalized synthetic spectrum is displayed
on-line. The output consists of a gif image (~10 kB)
or a gzipped postscript file (~30 kB).
- http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/cgummers/websynspec.cgi
-
TOPbase at CDS : The Opacity Project
(TOPbase)
-
TOPbase is a read-only database system specially designed for general
use of the atomic data dervived by the Opacity Project.
It contains energy levels, f-values and photoionization cross sections for
astrophysically abundant elements.
- http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/topbase.html
-
Traitement Elementaire Reduction et Analyse des PIXels
de Megacam
(TERAPIX)
-
Terapix is an astronomical data processing center dedicated to very
large CCD images and massive data flow provided by the
CFHT Megacam camera.
Terapix is located at Institut
d'Astrophysique de Paris
- http://www-terapix.iap.fr/
-
U.S. Naval Observatory
(USNO)
-
The U.S. Naval Observatory performs an essential scientific role for
the United States, the Navy, and the Department of Defense.
Its mission includes determining the positions and motions of the
Earth, Sun, Moon, planets, stars and other celestial objects, providing
astronomical data; determining precise time; measuring the Earth's rotation; and
maintaining the Master Clock for the United States.
- http://www.usno.navy.mil/
-
UK Astronomy Data Centre
(formerly RGO Astronomy Data Centre)
-
The Data Centre is part of the Cambridge Astronomy Survey
Unit and houses a good selection of data from the
UK's ground based telescopes as well as a number of
catalogues.
- http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/
-
USGS Flagstaff Space Mission Support
-
Browse the Solar System - Information about the Solar System
and products created by the USGS. Current Activities, NASA Missions
- Some of the NASA missions and other projects on
which our scientists are currently working. Databases - Space mission
databases maintained by USGS Flagstaff Field Center.
- http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/space.html
-
Universal Research Archive of Networked Information
in Astronomy
(URANIA)
-
Named for the muse of astronomy, the Urania resource is
composed of electronic astronomical scholarly journals, bibliographic information, electronic archives
of original data, electronic copies of the historical scholarly literature
for the last twenty years and a special reference system
archive organized by object in the sky. The separate resources
which make up Urania comprise a functioning distributed digital library
of astronomical information which provides a power and utility heretofore
unavailable to the researcher.
- http://www.aas.org/Urania/
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University of California, Berkeley - Center for Particle Astrophysics
(UCB - CfPA)
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The CfPA located at the University of California,
Berkeley was established in 1989 to conduct research in the
new interdisciplinary field of particle astrophysics. We provide information on
the Center's research, education and outreach efforts, workshops, seminars, publications,
and a directory of members and visitors.
- http://physics7.berkeley.edu/home.html
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Viking Mission to Mars - Online Resources
(PDS Imaging Node. JPL. NASA)
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A list of high quality, web-based resources related to the
Viking mission to Mars. Includes direct links to the PDS-archived
data stored on CD-ROM, as well as to browsers to
view and search the data.
- http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/public/vikingo/vikingo.html
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VizieR Catalogue Service
(CDS, Strasbourg)
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VizieR provides access to the most complete library of published
astronomical catalogues and data tables available on line, organized in
a self-documented database.
Query tools allow the user to
select relevant data tables and to extract and format records
matching given criteria. Specific care has been taken for optimizing
access to some very large catalogues such as Guide
Star Catalog or USNO-A2.
- http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/
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Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data
(WISARD/NSSDC)
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WISARD is a new interface to the extensive collection of
astrophysics data archived on the NASA Data Archive and Distribution
Service (NDADS) and other archives.
- http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/wisard/wisard.html
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Web to Database Interface
(ESO)
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WDB is an interface between the World Wide Web and
relational databases. It has been developed at the ESO/ST-ECF
Archive to provide an easy access to the archive databases.
WDB has been designed to be easier to use for
the casual user than STARCAT, even if it doesn't
prove all the same functionality.
- http://archive.eso.org/wdb/
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Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) observations archive
(NFRA, Dwingeloo)
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A query form lets you search the catalogue of all
observations done with the WSRT since the beginning of its
operations in 1970. Searches are possible by equatorial or galactic
coordinates, by source name and some other parameters. Requests for
data from the archive may be submitted after selection.
- http://www.nfra.nl/scissor/
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Wide Field Plate Database
(WFPDB, Sofia)
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The Wide-Field Plate Database (WFPDB) contains the descriptive information for
the astronomical wide-field (> 1°) photographic observations stored in numerous
archives all over the world.
- http://www.skyarchive.org/
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World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites
(WDC-A, NSSDC)
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The World Data Center system is an international confederation of
data centers originally established in 1955 to support the exchange
and archiving of data generated by the 1957-8 International Geophysical
Year.
World Data Center-A for Rockets and Satellites is
hosted by NASA's National Space Science Data Center. WDC-A R&S
has responsibilities for spacecraft launch and other descriptive information capture
and dissemination. WDC-A R&S serves as a conduit for requests
from the international community for data from the NSSDC data
archives.
- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/about_wdc-a.html
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X-Ray Astronomy Data Center at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
(MPE)
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Research activities, data center services, and databases related to the
X-ray satellite ROSAT at the Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics.
- http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/data_center
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X-Ray WWW Server
(at Uppsala Universitet)
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The Server makes available bibliographies and databases related to x-ray
spectroscopic physics. In particular, the Henke database of atomic scattering
factors can be downloaded. Also, this is the site for
the Atomic and Molecular Core- Edge Excitation Database and Bibliography,
compiled originally by A.P. Hitchcock, and prepared by Hitchcock and
Mancini for electronic distribution (COREXDB). A simple bibliographic search mechanism
has been implemented for the COREX bibliography. A visualization mechanism
is currently being developed to allow Web Browsers to preview
datafiles as in-line GIFs before choosing to download.
- http://xray.uu.se/
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XMM Survey Science Centre
(XMM SSC)
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The XMM Survey Science Centre (SSC) has responsibilities within the
XMM project in three main areas:
- the
follow-up/identification programme for the XMM serendipitous X-ray sky survey
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the development of science analysis software for XMM
- the
"pipe-line processing" of all XMM observations.
- http://xmmssc-www.star.le.ac.uk/
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Zurich Solar Radio Spectrometer
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The Radio Astronomy Group (RAG) of ETH
in Zurich, Switzerland, recorded solar radio spectrograms with an analog
spectrometer called Daedalus (1974-1993) in the range of 100-1000 MHz.
Its observation list can be accessed directly. Two digital
spectrometers, Ikarus (1978--1985) and PHOENIX (1988--1994), cover a
range from 100--1000 MHz and 0.1--3 GHz, respectively. And since
1998 the new and improved Phoenix-2 Spectrometer covers a
range from 0.1 -4 GHz. These data can be accessed
by the ASPECTimage retrieval system. Their observation list contains references
to frequency programs that indicate which frequencies were observed. More
information can be obtained from RAG members.
- http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/rapp/catalog/catalog.html
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