Astronomy Related Links

 
  • ADS Abstract Query Page
  • ADS Journal Query Page
  • arXiv
  • arXiv sorter (very nifty tool for filtering astro-ph)
  • Ned Wright's Cosmology Calculator
  • NED
  • HyperLeda
  • SIMBAD
  • List of Astronomy Meetings
  • Astronomy Job Rumour Mill
  • Art of Computational Science (A must-read if you are starting out with simulations)
  • A fairly nice list of papers on mergers, subhalo mergers etc (J. Cohn, Berkeley)
  • Chapter 2 of my thesis. Contains lots of introductory material about N-body tools that I used
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    Simulation Related Links

     

    Initial Condition Generators

     
  • NEMO Stellar Toolbox
  • Ed Bertschinger's homepage (GRAFIC - cosmological)
  • Ed Sirko's homepage (IC -- You might want the TPM to Gadget converter)
  • Project Horizon's IC Manipulation Tools
  • Josh Barnes' software page (zeno)
  • Roman Scoccimarro 2LPT IC generator
  • Jay Jay Billings Galaxy Model
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    Simulation Software

     
  • GADGET-2 (My bread and butter)
  • VINE (Some improvements over GADGET, adaptive artificial viscosity)
  • ENZO (AMR code, has built in IC generators)
  • FLASH (AMR code, Fortran 90 - very modular)
  • ZEUS (AMR code with trustworthy MHD)
  • ATHENA (New AMR code with MHD)
  • PM Code (Anatoly Klypin, NMSU)
  • Sverre Aarseth's Nbody page (If you want to do globular clusters, you want this)
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    Analysis & Visualisation (contains only N-body+SPH tools)

     
  • David Fanning's IDL Tips & Tricks
  • IDL Group on Google
  • IDL AstroLib (must-have)
  • David Fanning's IDL programs (must-have)
  • Craig Markwardt's IDL programs (very useful)
  • JD Smith's (*the* histogram expert) IDL programs (look at hist_nd)
  • IDL widget based Gadget snapshot reader (John Helly, Durham Group)
  • SPLASH (Daniel Price, Monash) highly recommended
  • IFRIT (Nick Gnedin, GPL'ed)
  • SPLOTCH (Klaus Dolag)
  • StarSplatter (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
  • AstroMD
  • PGPLOT (Tim Pearson)
  • Tipsy (Univ. Washington N-body shop
  • P3D (Andrey Kravtsov)
  • SimAn (interactive tool)
  • Making movies (on linux) from images. (Note: I often use the additional flag "-sameq" with ffmpeg while combining png's into an mp4 file. This flag preserves the original quality of the images at the expense of a larger file size for the final movie.)
  • DEXTER -- for extracting data out of plots (Uni. of Heidelburg)
     

    Big Simulations: Public Results and data

     
  • Via Lactae I & II
  • Project Horizon
  • Millenium Simulations
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    Other Public Astronomy Codes

     
  • GEMINI (Evan Scannapieco's code for EPS Merger Trees) currently unavailable
  • GALFORM (EPS Merger Tree code from the Durham group)
  • SUNRISE Radiative Transfer code for use with Gadget, Gasoline
  • RATRAN, another radiative transfer code
  • Renan Barkana's code repository
  • University of Washington N-Body shop
  • AstroSim Codes (Lots of code, some already listed here)
  • Astrophysics Source Code Library
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    Other Links

     
  • PDF writer (pdf printer for Windows)
  • Gorgeous aerial photos of London at night
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