Useful Links | Tanmay Singh

Astronomy and Astrophysics

General Links

NASA/ADS: Online database astronomy and physics papers (freely available).

arXiv: Open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints approved for posting after moderation, but not peer review (freely available).

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED): Online astronomical database that collates and cross-correlates astronomical information on extragalactic objects (freely available).

NED Search: Same as NED above, but here you can serach references, reviews and thesis on a particular topic in astronomy and astrophysics. I find this very useful sometimes to go through some notes on a particular topic (freely available).

AAS Job Portal: To find and post astronomy related jobs (faculty, postdoc, PhD and internships).

Astronomy Conferences: To find details about astronomy conferences.

List of Astronomy Journals: Astronomy journals comparison, based on their impact.

Astronomical Data Products

SDSS V: Official SDSS-V website.

SDSS Data Release 16: Publicly available SDSS DR16 data and catalogues.

DESI Data Release: Publicly available DESI Early Data Release and catalogues.

Legacy Survey: Publicly available legacy imaging survey data.

Hubble Space Telescope: Official NASA HST page.

HST Archival Data: Data products from HST.

ESA/Hubble Wallpapers: High quality astronomy images taken by Hubble and ESA telscopes.

Keck Archive: Archival data from Keck Observatory.

ESO Science Archive Facility: Data from ESO telescopes at La Silla Paranal Observatory.

VLT MUSE Data: Archival data from VLT MUSE.

NASA Chandra X-ray: Official NASA website.

Chandra Archive: Chandra X-ray archival data.

VLA Archive: NRAO's Very Large Array archival data.

Computer Simulations

Illustris Project: Large cosmological simulation of galaxy formation.

Illustris TNG: Ongoing series of large, cosmological MHD simulations of galaxy formation.

Auriga Simulations: Large suite of high-resolution MHD simulations of Milky Way-sized galaxies.

GADGET-4: Parallel cosmological N-body and SPH code meant for simulations of cosmic structure formation.

AREPO: Finite-volume MHD code for astrophysics (moving mesh hydrodynamics).

FIRE Simulations: Simulating ISM and CGM of galaxies.

EAGLE Project: Simulation aimed at understanding how galaxies form and evolve.

L-Galaxies Project: Semi-analytic models of galaxy formation built upon dark matter simulation only such as Millenium.

Programming Links

Stack Overflow: Question and answer website for professional and enthusiast programmers.

Python: Python is an interpreted high-level general-purpose programming language.

Python Document: The official documentation of Python language.

PEP 8: Official style Guide for Python Code.

NumPy: Library for the Python programming language, adding support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices.

SciPy: free and open-source Python library used for scientific and technical computing.

Astropy: Collection of software packages written in the Python programming language and designed for use in astronomy.

Jupyter notebook: Open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.

Matplotlib: Comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.

HDF5 library: A great data software to manage large array datasets. Very easily importable to Python.

Wolfram online: Compute answers using Wolfram's online solvers.

Overleaf: Collaborative cloud-based LaTeX editor used for writing, editing and publishing scientific documents.

WebPlotDigitizer: Online tool to extract the underlying numerical data from an image (I find it very useful).

Mendeley: Online reference manager to manage and share research papers and also to generate bibiliographies (semi-free).

Zotero: Free and open-source reference management software.