AstroWeb: Data and Archive Centers

1st High Energy Astrophysics Observatory (HEAO 1. GSFC. NASA)
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
2nd High Energy Astrophysics Observatory (HEAO 2, renamed Einstein. GSFC. NASA)
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
ARTHEMIS Solar Data Archive (ARTHEMIS)
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/
ASCA Data Facility
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
Advanced Stars: a Tool for Relating Informations and Data (ASTRID)
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/
Aladin Sky Atlas
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/
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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/
Astro Space Center (ASC)
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/
Astrographic Catalogue Project (USNO)
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
Astronomical Data Analysis Center (NAOJ/ADAC)
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/
Astronomical Data Center (ADC)
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/
Astronomical Data Center FTP Archive
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/
Astrophysical CATalogs Support System of Special Astrophysical Observatory
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/
Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF)
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
Astrophysics Data System Archive Service (ADS Archive)
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
Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine (AMASE)
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/
Atomic Data for Astrophysics
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
Atomic Line List
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/
BAse Solaire Sol 2000 (BASS2000)
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/
BAse Solaire Sol 2000 - Meudon site (BASS2000)
A full disk archive of the Sun.
http://mesola.obspm.fr/
Backgrounds Data Center (BCOE)
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/
Beijing astronomical Data Center (BDC)
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/
BeppoSAX Mission (SAX)
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/
Besancon Double and Multiple Star Database
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/
CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues (Astronomer's Bazaar)
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
CHIANTI: A database for astrophysical emission line spectroscopy (CHIANTI)
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
CLEMENTINE images
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
Canada France Hawaii Telescope - Archive at CADC (CFHT)
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
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)
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
Cassini Mission to Saturn (UltraViolet Imaging Spectrograph, UVIS)
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/
Catalog of Infrared Observations (CIO)
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
Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants
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/
Center for Advanced Space Studies (CASS)
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
Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS / RPIF)
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/
Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics (CEA / EUVE)
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/
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT)
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
Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS)
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
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS AnonFTP site)
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/
Centre de Prevision de l'activite solaire et geomagnetique (RWC MEUDON)
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/
Centre de donnees planetaires (IAS, Orsay)
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,
- Search for extrasolar planets,
- Space and ground-based observations,
- 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/
Chandra X-ray Observatory (AXAF) - Science Center (ASC)
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/
Compton Observatory Science Support Center (COSSC. GSFC. NASA)
The COSSC data archive contains information and data related to the following experiments
http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cossc/cossc.html
Compton/GRO Observatory Science Support Center/Guest Observer (Facility)
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/
DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS - Leiden)
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/
DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky: Point Source Database (DENIS)
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
DIRA 2
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
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Data Archive (DMSP)
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
Digitized Sky Survey at LEDAS
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
ESO / ST-ECF Data Archive
European Southern Observatory / Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
http://arch-http.hq.eso.org/ESO-ECF-Archive.html
ESO Science Archive Facility
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/
EXOSAT database, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (telnet)
telnet://xray@exosat.estec.esa.nl/
Einstein Data Archive (SAO, Cambridge, MA)
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
Einstein On-Line Service - Einline
Contains an extensive set of Radio Astronomy catalogs.
telnet://einline@einline.harvard.edu/
European Pulsar Network Data Archive (EPN data archive)
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/
European Space Operations Centre (ESA/ESOC)
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/
European X-ray Observatory (EXOSAT at GSFC. NASA)
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
Extragalactic Cepheid Database (ECD)
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/
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
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
Extreme UltraViolet Explorer (EUVE) Archive (at HEASARC)
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/
Extreme UltraViolet Explorer (EUVE) Archive (at CEA Berkeley)
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
Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) Archive (at STScI)
http://archive.stsci.edu/euve/
Galactic Cepheid Database (DDO)
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.
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: 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/
University of California, Berkeley - Center for Particle Astrophysics (UCB - CfPA)
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
Viking Mission to Mars - Online Resources (PDS Imaging Node. JPL. NASA)
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
VizieR Catalogue Service (CDS, Strasbourg)
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/
Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data (WISARD/NSSDC)
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
Web to Database Interface (ESO)
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/
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) observations archive (NFRA, Dwingeloo)
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/
Wide Field Plate Database (WFPDB, Sofia)
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/
World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A, NSSDC)
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
X-Ray Astronomy Data Center at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
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
X-Ray WWW Server (at Uppsala Universitet)
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/
XMM Survey Science Centre (XMM SSC)
The XMM Survey Science Centre (SSC) has responsibilities within the XMM project in three main areas:
http://xmmssc-www.star.le.ac.uk/
Zurich Solar Radio Spectrometer
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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