Astronomy work links

JCMT and related

• The JCMT is now run by the East Asian Observatory.
• Download JCMT data from the OMP pages or the archive at CADC.
• Old-style JCMT data reduction with SPECX and SURF.
• New-style JCMT data reduction with SMURF for SCUBA-2 and ACSIS

BIMA and related

• BIMA is no more: it was superseded by CARMA. However, even CARMA is no more... (there doesn't seem to be much going on in terms of millimetre interferometry these days.)
• BIMA data is reduced with MIRIAD. Note that BIMA data should be reduced with the older V3 series of MIRIAD. CARMA data reduction should use V4.
• Other useful stuff includes WIP and various other things on the LMA software page.

Other telescopes

• Radio:
  • GBT Green Bank, WV
  • MERLIN at Jodrell Bank
  • Effelsberg Germany
  • ATCA Narrabri, Australia
  • Parkes, Australia
  • The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Socorro, NM
• Millimetre/submillimetre:
  • IRAM, 30 m at Pico Veleta in Spain, interferometer on Plateau de Bure, near Grenoble, France
  • Onsala, Sweden
  • FCRAO, MA
  • Mopra, Coonabarabran, Australia
  • CARMA at Cedar Flat, CA
  • LMT, Sierra Negra, Mexico
  • CSO on Mauna Kea, HI (closed in Sep 2015)
  • SMA on Mauna Kea, HI
  • APEX in the Atacama desert, Chile
  • ALMA, also in the Atacama desert, Chile
  • CCAT to be built in — where else? – Chile (well, maybe not...)
  • Herschel Space Observatory launched in May 2009
• Infrared:
  • Spitzer Space Telescope somewhere overhead :-)
  • UKIRT on Mauna Kea, HI
  • Gemini — Mauna Kea, HI, and Cerro Pachón, Chile

Useful utilities

• Molecular spectroscopy:
  • The JPL Molecular Spectroscopy home page.
  • NIST recommended rest frequencies for Observed Interstellar Molecular Microwave Transitions.
  • The Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy.
• The Skyview Virtual Observatory — see what your favourite part of the sky looks like at various wavelengths.
• Convert B1950 coordinates to J2000 and more with the NED Coordinate & Galactic Extinction Calculator.
• Various time-related services from the USNO, including a Sidereal Time calculator.
• Search astronomical catalogues with VizieR.

Journals online

• The ADS facility to search for abstracts published in the major astronomical journals.
• An alternative is a facility offered by the CDS in Strasbourg. Full versions of images and tables can also be obtained from this CDS site.
• Electronic editions of:
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
• Preprints from:
  • The astro-ph preprint list on the arXiv.
  • The Star Formation Newsletter

Conferences and meetings

Plan your next vacation by checking out where the next interesting conference is being held :-)

Organizations

• The Royal Astronomical Society
• The American Astronomical Society
• International Astronomical Union