- P/reprints:
Astro/physics preprints
XXX/ArXiV and
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Abstract Service and scanned journals.
SLAC SPIRES
High Energy Physics information system.
Caltech library
Proxy Server. List of Caltech library
online services.
- Journals:
AJ/ApJ Image Explorer,
Electronic
ApJ,
AJ,
A & A,
A& A Review,
MNRAS,
Phys Rev and
Phys Rev archive (1985-1996).
Living Reviews in
Relativity
and Computational
Astrophysics.
General
Relativity and Gravitation.
Nature,
Science,
Physics Today,
Astronomy & Geophysics.
Accessible summaries of Phys Rev papers:
Physical Review Focus.
Astro Research highlights: AAS Nova.
Astro-space news.
Asclepias, AAS Software citations
News from ApJ,
ApJL,
A & A,
AJ,
Physics of Fluids.
- Data:
Object searches at
Simbad (CfA mirror) or the main site at
CDS Strasbourg
Catalogues available at the
Strasbourg CDS,
the
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive or the
STScI multi-mission
(UV) archive (MAST).
The XTE
Target of Opportunity data.
Astronomer's Telegram ATel.
The GRB Coordinates Network
and GCN circulars.
Catalogs and archives of the
Astrophysics Data System.
IPAC Online Services,
and extragalactic database
NED.
- Mission websites
Chandra X-ray,
GALEX,
Hipparcos,
HST Press Releases,
HST Hubble popular,
Hubble science,
LISA popular (JPL),
LISA technical (SRL),
LISA
project (GSFC),
LISA WG1,
ROSAT (X-ray),
Sloan Digial Sky Survey (SDSS),
Spitzer (IR),
WMAP,
XMM (X-ray),
XTE (X-ray),
GRACE (US),
GRACE (Germany),
2dF Quasars,
NASA Planetary missions,
NEAR Eros encounter.
- Meetings
International
Meetings,
- Funding:
NASA $,
NASA NSPIRES.
NSF $,
NSF Fastlane.
- Further Astronomy links;
van Kerkwijk's Ay links.
Sigurdsson SCF
and IMF source code.
Nightfall
for eclipsing binaries, Roche geometry. Local
nightfall
documentation. (Also as .dvi in /usr/doc/packages/nightfall/UserManual.dvi,
configuration files in /usr/share/nightfall/cfg, data files in
/usr/share/nightfall/data).
Rob Hynes' BinSim
for photorealistic binary star visualisations.
Basics of Space
Flight course/workbook.
The list of
Astronomical Internet Resources sorted by category at NRAO, or
alphabetically at STScI.
- Cosmology: Ned Wright's
cosmology
calculator
- Theoretical astrophysics quotations
- A& A
Decadal Survey page
and membership page.
- Data:
CODATA recommended values of the
Fundamental Physical Constants
(freq. used,
calculator)
Conversions from
English/Metric.
LBL Particle Data Group Review of
Particle Properties.
The LBL
Table of
Isotopes/popular and
Isotopic data.
National
Nuclear Data Center
(Brookhaven).
Periodic Table of physical properties of the elements.
NIST spectral lines Grotrian diagrams, Synthetic Spectra.
Tables of atomic data on
Resonance
Absorption Lines (Don Morton).
Directorate of time (USNO),
definitions of times
(TIA, UTC, UT1, query current MJD...) and
history of time.
- Math:
Updated Abramowicz & Stegun AMS-55:
Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.
Eric's
Treasure Trove of Math, updated as
Eric's
World of Mathematics. Other
troves
in astronomy, chemistry, music,
physics, rocket history and history of science.
- Digitize plots WebPlotDigitizer.
- Octave manual:
local pdf,
local html,
web html,
Intro to Octave (good on indexing matrices),
Octave Examples
(good on solving nonlinear eq).
Image processing with Octave.
Octave-forge package index web html.
Writing data with octave, adding TeX and images
to GNUplot/octave plots,
ExtensiveGNUplot FAQ.
- Guide to Available
Mathematical Software.
Numerical Recipes.
The
GNU
Scientific Library, and the
same at GNU.
Automatically tuned
Linear Algebra package.
- Fortran 90
Multiple Precision operator overload package (see CSE Jul/Aug 2003 p88).
Singular solves
polynomials -eigenvalue determinants, arb precision.
- Caltech campus maps
- Caltech-related:
Caltech library catalog
CLAS,
Dissertations at U.
Microfilms, all Springer Journals,
MathSciNet database of math
articles,
Caltech library services.
The
Caltech personnel
directory,
Office of Sponsored Research
(overhead and benefit rates, etc),
and the
Caltech archives
(all available only to Caltech personnel).
Caltech parking
rules/registration.
Caltech Information Services
help.
Caltech bookstore.
Scum page.
with Kelley blue book car prices.
Pasadena city govt homepage, and
commercial
Pasadena, CA
City Center web page.
Pasadena area Restaurant menus
online. Caltech Technique
restaurant reviews.
Home
Maintenance (click housing) booklets from GSA.
- Travel:
AA,
JetBlue,
Southwest.
UA.
Dohop budget flights,
Kayak flight pricing,
airline seats comments,
Orbitz,
Yahoo travel.
LA
Metro rail/bus.
FAA Airport status,
Flight
status.
TSA Security Checkpoint wait times.
Currency
exchange rates and conversions
& Monthly
averages.
Weather: forecasts by National Weather Service for
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and Palomar.
Current Caltech weather.
Weather
Underground.
News:
CNN,
Salon,
Yahoo.
Failblog.
- $inks:
Amazon,
Arbor Scientific,
Carus Publishing,
Dell,
ETA/Cuisenaire,
Land's End,
Maha/Powerex,
Science Kit and Boreal Labs,
Sheet Music Plus,
ArKivMusic classical recordings.
Advection:
FedEx tracking,
USPS rates/zip/tracking,
UPS tracking,
Bathtubs:
IRS Tax Forms,
CA tax forms. Free
Annual Credit Report,
Zillow real estate,
ABA on wills
, family law.
$ources(?):
AAII,
CNN Money,
Caltech Credit Union,
Schwab,
TreasuryDirect,
- the Encylopedia Britannica,
PDF maps of California,
PCL
Map Collection,
look up phone
and address of anyone,
National DO NOT CALL list,
Census data,
- The TAPIR,
CaJAGWR,
Caltech Astronomy,
Caltech PMA, and
Caltech home pages.
Caltech Today Caltech happenings.
Caltech Catalog.
ASCIT CLUE.
- Ohio
Fortran FAQ.
California ISO
electrical grid status.
- Professional organizations:
AAS,
APS,
AIP,
IAU.
- Government agencies:
NASA,
NSF,
White House,
and
UN.
- Activities:
Poly,
MyPoly,
ayso214,
JCM.
- Libraries:
South Pasadena Library catalog.
San Marino public library.
Poly North
Campus Library.
- Kids' Internet Search:
kid-friendly search (compiled by librarians),
Librarians' internet index,
Yahoo for ages 7-12,
askforkids search for elem/middle schoolers,
kids.gov: links for federal government sites
for kids,
homeworkspot K-12 research links,
clusty: general but simple search
with image links.
NSF's National Science Digital Library.
Math enrichment nrich and math magazine
. (Mis)uses of
statistics.
Astronomical sites:
Princeton University Observatory,
Princeton Pulsar Lab,
IAS School of Natural Sciences.
NASA image
collections.
The Astronomical Museum in Bologna.
Complete
Messier CCD gallery. Color
AAT images.
Electronic Universe at U Oregon: Messier gallery, digital spectral
atlas of stars, interacting galaxy movies, etc.
Universities:
Index of
American Universities. Index of
National Universities.
Color printing:Reproductions from electronic images or film
Newell labs, including
resale of HST/NASA/JPL/USGS
images.
Other sites:
ssh and scp for
Windows,
Linux Documentation
Project, Redhat Linux,
redhat hardware
compatibility,
redhat
FAQs, linux
certification,
download redhat rpms,
laptop
synchronisation tools,
S.u.S.E. Linux,
printers and linux,
Linux encyclopedia,
linux freeware including ssh,
GNU PGP encryption,
Linux Daily News,
Accelerated-X server,
Linux on
laptops page. Window
Managers for X page,
Alladin Ghostscript.
CERT advisories,
Open Mail Relay warning system.
PGP encryption.
The Exploratorium;
especially the snackbook of simple
science experiments.
Show all formats of movies with
xine.
Links to
Raytracing/3-D rendering programs and libraries of objects for them.
POV raytracing site and
UK POV mirror. K3DSurf,
3D surface generator in KDE.
Truevision
3D modeler for GNOME. POV with
equipotential surfaces; as of POV-ray 3.5, now part of POV:
use `isosurface' object. `parametric' allows rendering a surface
defined by 3 parametric functions.
Visualise 3-D Geometric objects with
Geomview.
Visualise 3-D gridded data (with transparency) with
VolPack.
Symbolics Macsyma,
and open source maxima,
and GNU emacs Calc
for numerical and symbolic calculation
(manual.
GNU compilers: gcc, egcs, f77,
Interpreted, object-oriented high-level language
Python home page.
Graphical and Numerical Extensions to Unix:
LASSPTools:
convert user coords to MPEG movie, analog slider inputs, FFTs etc.
Computer Graphics hotlist.
Mathematics and Molecules educational visualization. The
Geometry Center welcome page.
Is Schrödinger's Cat Object-Oriented?, a physical introduction to C++.
The juggling information
service.
The
Language Directory , the LOGOS
multilingual dictionary. Digital imaging
news and
camera reviews.
More digital camera review sites:
Petapixel,
Digital Photography Review,
and
steves-digicams.
Mail-order film develop/prints.
Linux drivers for digital cameras.
- Better web printing.
- Restricting directories to
CIT only access.
A useful but incomplete Caltech
primer on the HyperText Markup Language (HTML),
Ian Graham's
online HTML book .
An
HTML syntax checker.
A program
LaTex2HTML
for converting LaTex to transparent
GIFs for inclusion in HTML documents with the IMG command.
Convert evaluated notebooks in
Mathematica to html documents
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards.
- Offical TeX archive.
Useful RefTex, Constants and ORG (outline/projects/planning)
tools for EMACS.
See also
emacs Org mode
outline-el
Hyperbole and
Hyperbole manual,
GNU TeXmacs for
wysiwyg tex, with interface to
maxima.
Another wysiwyg latex Lyx.
Review of all the
wysiwyg tex/latex systems.
Joseph Kolibal's
TeX and LaTeX samples, printing envelopes sideways, making wyswyg slides
with Etextool, Xtem, pdf2latex, epstopdf (with examples), etc.
5/14/95 -
E. Sterl Phinney
(esp [at] tapir [dot]
caltech [dot] edu)