NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

Selected Astrophysical Data Centers & Services

(Latest Revision: 11 May 2022)

• NASA Astrophysics Data Centers & Services
• ADS: Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service
• HEASARC: High Enery Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center at GSFC
• IRSA: Infrared Science Archive at IPAC
• LAMBDA: Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis at GSFC
• MAST: Multimission Archive at STScI
• NED: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
• NASA Space Science Data Center
• NASA Astrophysics Mission Centers
• CHANDRA: X-ray Observatory Center
• Herschel Space Observatory
• GALEX: Galaxy Evolution Explorer
• STScI: Space Telescope Science Institute
• SSC: Spitzer Science Center
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
• Astrophysical CATalogs support System (CATS)
• BAX: The X-Ray Galaxy Clusters Database
• Canadian Astronomy Data Center (CADC)
• Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS)
• Digitized Sky Survey
• ESO/ST-ECF
• Galaxy On-Line Database Milano Network (GOLDMINE)
• HyperLeda
• International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA)
• Libraries of Stellar Spectra (Montes: UCM)
• LEicester Database and Archive Service (LEDAS)
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database
• SkyView (GSFC)
• 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS)
• Unified Astronomy Thesaurus
• XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA)

Astrostatistics, Computing and Visualization Tools

• Aarseth's N-Body Code and Website (Cambridge)
• ALADIN Interactive Sky Atlas (CDS)
• Art of Computational Science (Hut and Makino)
• AstroBetter: Tips and Tricks for Professional Astronomers
• Astrophysics Source Code Library: Archive
• BIPS: Bayesian Inference for the Physical Sciences
• COSMO.lab: Visualization Software (CINECA)
• DS9 (SAOImage) Harvard-Smithsonian)
• Electronic Statistics Textbook
• Evolutionary Population Synthesis (Buzzoni: Bologna)
• Firefly: IPAC's interactive data visualization framework (GitHub)
• GADGET - A code for cosmological simulations of structure formation
• Gary Mamon's Utilities: Scripts for extracting and parsing data from NED, LEDA, ADS and astro-ph
• GRASIL: Spectral Evolution Code for Stellar Systems with Dust (Granato: Padova and Silva: Trieste)
• HyperZ: Photometric Redshift Code
• JSky: Java Components for Astronomy
• NEMO: Stellar Dynamics Toolbox (UMD)
• PEGASE: UV to NIR Spectral Evolution Model of Galaxies (Fioc and Rocca-Volmerange: IAP)
• Penn State Center for Astrostatistics
• PGPLOT (Pearson: Caltech)
• Practical Python for Astronomers
• astropy
• SExtractor 2.0 (tarred gzipped archives)
• Starburst99: Spectrophotometric Modelling Package (Leitherer: STScI)
• TOPCAT: Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables (Taylor: Bristol University)
• VIRGO Consortium: Cosmological Simulations (Durham)
• VOPlot: Users Guide
• VOStat: Statistics for the Virtual Observatory
• XGobi: A System for Multidimensional Scaling and Graph Layout (Swayne: ATT Labs)
• XGvis: A System for Multivariate Data Visualization (Swayne: ATT Labs)
• GGobi
• ZENO: N-body and SPH Simulation Code (Barnes: Hawaii)
• 4000 A Break: Empirical Calibration (Gorgas: UCM)

On-line Astronomy & Astrophysics Literature

• Astrofizika
• Astronomical Journal (AJ)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (AAA: 1969-2002 ARI Heidelberg)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics Review (A&AR)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement (A&AS)
• Astronomy Magazine
• Astroparticle Physics
• Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
• Astrophysics Abstract Service (ADS: Harvard-Smithsonian)
• Astrophysics Preprint Service (astro-ph)
• IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
• American Astronomical Society (AAS) Author Instructions
• Journal of Astronomical Data (JAD)
• Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society (JKAS)
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
• Nature - International weekly journal of science
• New Astronomy
• New Astronomy Reviews
• Proceedings of Science (PoS)
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA)
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP)
• Russian Astronomy Reports
• Science Magazine
• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• Space Science Reviews

News Groups and News Letters

• Active Galaxies Newsletter
• Astronomer's Telegram (ATel)

Astronomy Education and Public Outreach Sites

• American Astronomical Society (AAS) Education Office
• Astronomical Glossary and Lexicon (LEVEL 5)
• An Atlas of the Universe
• Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (AAS)
• The Constellations and their Stars
• Galaxies and the Universe (Bill Keel's Course Notes)
• Cool Cosmos (IPAC Educational Outreach)
• Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy & Cosmology (LEVEL 5)
• Powers of Ten: From Quarks to Quasars
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
• International Dark-Sky Association
• Telescopes on a Budget

Professional Societies

• American Astronomical Society (AAS)
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
• Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA)
• Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)
• International Astronomical Union (IAU)
• Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
• Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC)

Index, Meetings & List Services

• AAS On-line Membership Directory
• AstroWeb Consortium
• AstroWeb -- CDS Version
• International Astronomy Meetings (CADC)
• IPAC Communications & Education
• Meetings/Workshops on Astronomy (USA)
• RASC Observer's Handbook Websites

Ground-Based Archives

• AAT (Anglo-Australian Telescope) Archive
• ATNF (Australian Telescope National Facility) Archive
• Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Archive
• CASU (Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit)
• CASU INT Wide Field Survey
• CFHT (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) Archive
• CGPS (Canadian Galactic Plane Survey) Archive
• ESO (European Southern Observatory) Archive
• FIRST (VLA - Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters) Archive
• Keck Observatory Archive (KOA)
• NOAO (National Optical Astronomical Observatories) Archive
• UKIRT (United Kingdom Infrared Telescope) Archive

Specialized Extragalactic Sites

• Hubble Deep Field North
• http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~cowie/hdf.html
• http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~cowie/tts/tts.html
• http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html
• http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/10th/photos/slide40.shtml
• http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fsoto/hdf/hdfcat.html
• Hubble Deep Field South
• http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdfsouth/hdfs.html
• http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/41
• http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9841q/
• Redshift Surveys and Databases
• Canadian Network for Observational Cosmology: CNOC
• DEEP: Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe
• ENACS: ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey
• ESO Slice Project: A Galaxy Redshift Survey in the South Galactic Pole Region
• IRAS PSCz Redshift Survey
• Las Campanas Redshift Survey
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• VIMOS Deep Survey (ESO-VLT)
• 2MASS Redshift Survey
• 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
• 2dF QSO Redshift Survey
• 6dF Survey
• Supernovae
• Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP)
• High Redshift Supernova Search
• High-Z Supernova Search
• Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT)
• Latest Supernovae (Rochester)
• SNLS: SuperNova Legacy Survey
• Master List of Supernovae (CfA)
• Master List of Recent Supernovae (CfA)
• Supernova Classification at the CfA
• Supernova Cosmology Project (LBL)
• Supernova Early Warning System
• Supernova Links: Bishop
• Supernova Links: Rochester
• Supernova Typing Machine (Wise Obs.)
• Weizmann Interactive Supernova Data Repository (WISeREP)
• Other Surveys and Extragalactic Databases
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE
• AGN Spectral Energy Distributions (Brotherton: Wyoming)
• Analysing the Interstellar Medium of Isolated Galaxies (AMIGA: Andalucia)
• APM Sky Catalogues (McMahon: Cambridge)
• APM Catalogue Home Page (Cambridge)
• ASCA of Active Galactic Nuclei (TARTARUS)
• Atlas of Double Radio Sources Associated with Galactic Nuclei (DRAGNs)
• Barred and Ringed Spirals Project (IAC)
• BIMA (CO) Survey of Nearby Galaxies (Helfer: BIMA SONG)
• Bright Quasar Survey: VLA-FIRST Composite Spectra
• Cambridge Radio Surveys (6C, 7C, 8C and 9C)
• Canada-France Redshift Survey (CFRS)
• Catalog of Galaxies Searched for H2O (Braatz: NRAO)
• CfA-Arizona Space Telescope LEns (CASTLES) Survey of gravitational lenses
• CERES Archive (JVAS/CLASS Gravitational Lenses)
• Compact Radio Sources at 2cm
• Compact Groups of Galaxies (Hickson: UBC)
• Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS)
• COSMOS: HST Legacy Survey
• Deep Lens Survey
• Dust Maps (Schlegel and Finkbeiner)
• The Extragalactic Distance Database (EDD)
• European Large-Area ISO Survey (ELAIS)
• ESO Imaging Survey (EIS)
• Fantomm (Univ. Montreal)
• Gamma Ray Bursts
• Galaxy Evolution from Morphology and SEDs (GEMS)
• Gravitational Lens Systems (JVAS/CLASS: Manchester)
• Gravitational Lenses (Liege)
• Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (STScI: GOODS)
• Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (ESO: GOODS)
• Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP)
• Images of Radio Galaxies and Quasars
• International AGN Watch
• Las Campanas Redshift Survey Catalog (LCRSCAT)
• Local Irregulars That Trace Luminosity Extremes (Little THINGS)
• Las Campanas InfraRed Survey (LCIRS)
• Local Group Stellar Photometry Archive (LOGPHOT)
• Local Group Survey (LGS)
• Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS)
• Local Volume Legacy Survey (LVLS)
• Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner Catalog (MAPS)
• Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (MGC)
• NGC/IC Project
• Nearby Field Galaxy Survey (NFGS)
• NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS)
• NOAO Image Gallery
• NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS)
• Palomar Digital Sky Survey (DPOSS)
• Parkes 21cm Multibeam Project (HIPASS)
• Parkes-MIT-NRAO Surveys (PMN)
• Quasar Spectral Archive (Bechtold)
• ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole Survey
• Seyfert Galaxy Surface Photometry (Shlosman: Kentucky)
• Spitzer First Look: VLA Survey (IRSA)
• Survey for Ionization in Neutral-Gas Galaxies (SINGG)
• Spitzer Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS)
• Spitzer First Look: VLA Survey (NRAO)
• Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic Survey (SWIRE)
• Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey (SUMSS)
• SDSS Cut-Out Web Service (Sloan)
• The HI Nearby galaxy Survey (THINGS)
• UCM Survey for Emission-Line Galaxies (UCM: Madrid)
• UMRAO Radio Lightcurve Database (H. & M. Aller: U. Michigan)
• Velocity Dispersion Catalog (McElroy: JPL)
• VLA Calibrators List
• VLA FIRST Survey (FIRST)
• VLBA 2cm Survey (NRAO)
• VLSS: VLA Low-Frequency Sky Survey [formerly 4MASS] (NRL/NRAO)
• VSOP Pre-Launch VLBA Survey (ISAS)
• Westerbork observations of neutral Hydrogen in Irregular and SPiral galaxies (WHISP)
• 11 Mpc Halpha UV Glaxy Survey (11HUGS)
• 4MASS: 4 Meter All Sky Survey [aka VLSS] (NRL/NRAO)