Re: [APML] Astronomical Databases

[Ray Butler <ray.butler@nuigalway.ie>]

Wei-Hao,

You beat me to it!

Strictly speaking, the database (catalogue server) part of SIMBAD is 
called Vizier, the image & catalogue plotter is called Aladin, and the 
name resolver/object summary provider is Simbad. Find them all at the 
same link:
	http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad

For literature (journal & conference papers, some handbooks, including 
relevant links to archived data in SIMBAD & Vizier) there's also ADS:
	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

...and astro-ph, the place where astronomers who are impatient, seeking 
to claim first credit, or just seeking the widest possible audience, 
publish their papers before they get passed for "proper" publication:
	http://lanl.arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph

Ray "who came into astronomy research 12 years ago, and has seen how 
this small handful of sites in particular has revolutionised it" Butler.



Wei-Hao Wang wrote:

> Hi Rob.
> 
> Here are two websites that many astronomers use.
> 
> SIMBAD : general database for celestial objects
> http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/
> 
> NED : database for extragalactic objects.
> http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Wei-Hao
> 
> 

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Dr. Ray Butler (ray.butler@nuigalway.ie || ray@physics.nuigalway.ie)
Lecturer, Dept. of Physics || Computational Astrophysics Laboratory
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