Data and Software Archives & Catalogs

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A

ADC (Astronomical Data Center) - Science Data, computer-ready astronomical catalogs and journal data tables. Astronomy Dept. at the University of Maryland.
- Data Sets with Software, Part 1
AIPS Data Analysis Software (Astronomical Image Processing System) - NRAO (Natl. Radio Astronomy Observatory)
ARIAPFS Database - (Apparent Places of Fundamental Stars) Astrometry, stellar dynamics, galaxy evolution, gravitational lensing, extrasolar planets and cosmology, development and operation of high-performance computers
- ARI Database Introduction
- APFS Astronomica Ephemerides
Arp's Catalog of Peculiar Galaxies
AstDys Asteroids-Dymanic Site - Data on numbered and multiopposition asteroids, including orbital elements, their uncertainty, proper elements, etc. - catalogs updated monthly
Astrobrowse - No longer supported, replaced by NVO Datascope (National Virtual Observatory)

AstroGLU, vers 1.2 - Locates databases servers providing astronomical information relation to object name, position in sky, astronomer's name, etc.
Astronomer's Bazaar - 6,960 catalogues available from CDS (Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center)
- Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
Astronomical Almanac Online - USNO (U.S. Nautical Almanac Office) and HMNAO (Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office) - UK
- Errata
Atlas of Very High Resolution Stratospheric IR Absorption Spectra - Dept. of Physics, University of Denver

Atomic & Molecular Databases - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Australia Telescope Online Archive

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BBXRT Archive (Broad Band X-Ray Telescope)
Bibliography of Close Binaries - IAU Commission No. 42
CIAO Software Package, vers 3.4 (Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations)

CIAO 4.0 Beta - Released 14 November 2007

COSMIC Collection (NASA) - Now published by Open Channel Foundation
DENIS (DEep Near Infrared Survey) of the Southern Sky
DIRA2-WWW - Database management system
DSS (Digitized Sky Survey) - Available at ESO or STScI
- Search Template

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E-F

Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2) Level 0 Data and Software - at the HEARSARC
EIS - The ESO Imaging Survey (European Southern Observatory)
ESO Archive
- Query Form
ESO-MIDAS (European Southern Observatory - Munich Image Data Analysis System)
EXOSAT Data Archive (European X-Ray Observatory Satellite) - at the HEASARC
FIGARO User's Guide, vers 6.5-3, a general data reduction system

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G-H

Gemini Observing Tool - Pathname is /usr/local/bin/ot
HEADS FTP Archive (High Energy Astrophysics Data Software)
HEASARC Datasets (High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center)
Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues - Home page
HITRAN Database (HIgh-Resolution TRANsmission Molecular Absorption)

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I-K

IDL Astronomy User's Library Software
IRAF Software (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
IUE Archive (International Ultraviolet Explorer) - STScI

INES Archive Data Server - Provides access to IUE Final Archive data, processed with the INES system

IRSA (InfraRed Science Archive) - NASA/IPAC
IRSKY Software, vers 2.6
KI archive (Keck Interferometer) - Connects the two Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawaii, as an infrared interferometer with a baseline of 85 meters
KOA (Keck Observatory Archive) - Only archives single-aperture Keck data
KPNO FTP Archives (Kitt Peak National Observatory)
Kurucz Atomic Spectral Line Database - R. L. Kurucz's CDROM 23

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L-M

LAMBDA - (Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis)
(MACS) MAssive Cluster Survey - "The most X-ray luminous distant cluster s of galaxies from ROSAT All-Sky Survey data"
MAPPINGS III - Photoionization models - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
MAPS Catalog Archive (Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner) - University of Minnesota
MAST Archive (Multimission Archive at STScI)
Messier Catalog - Catalog of nebulae, star clusters and galaxies
Minor Planet Names - Alphabetical list

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N

NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)
NEODyS Database (Near Earth Objects-Dynamic Site)
NIST Atomic Spectra Database (Natl. Institute of Standards and Technology, Physics Laboratory)
NSO Digital Library - Archive of major National Solar Observatory data sets
NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center) - NASA's permanent archive for space science mission data
NStars (Near Stars) Database - Stellar systems within 25 parsecs
NVO (National Virtual Observatory)
NStED Archive (NASA Stellar Archive and Exoplanet Database)
NVO Data Access and Registries

NVO DataScope Query
NVO Tools and Software - Software packages, tools and portals that deal with VO-compliant services and data formats

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O-R

Open Channel Foundation - Publishing software from academic and research institutions - NTTC (Natl. Technology Transfer Center)
PDS (Planetary Data System) - Archive of data products from NASA planetary missions
PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library - Publication quality graphical images with minimum effort
PTI archive (Palomar Testbed Interferometer)
RAVE (RAdial Velocity Experiment) - All-sky survey measures radial velocities, metallicities, and abundance ratios for 50 million stars - UK Schmidt Telescope - Australia

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SAF (Science Archive Facility) - ESO (European Southern Observatory) and ST-ECF (Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility)
SAO Terahertz Toolbox - Spectroscopic database and tools for analysis of astronomical observations in the Terahertz Region

SCANPI , vers 5.0 (Scan Processing and Integration) - Tool for visualizing, plotting and averaging calibrated IRAS survey scans. Runs under Netscape only, as well as in batch mode via email

SCANPI beta-release for January 2008

SIMBAD Astronomical Data Base - Basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system
- SIMBAD User's Guide - vers 2.1 May 2000
SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) - Includes a quarter of the sky and a 3-dimensional map of a million galaxies and quasars
Starburst99 - Software/data package for modeling spectrophotometric and related properties of star-forming galaxies
STARCAT Information

STARCAT Access to Astronomical Catalogues - Retrieve data, display and/or write to file

STARCAT Archives - Available at the CADC, ESO and ST-ECF

StatCodes - Statistical software for astronomy and related physical sciences
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)
STSI FTP Server (Space Telescope Science Institute)

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T-U

2MASS (Two Micron All Sky Survey) - at IPAC (Infrared Processing and Analysis Center)
TIPTOPbase - Public, interactive database service implemented to access atomic data
- Opacity Project - Data, codes, OPserver and instructions to compute mean opacities and accelerations
- OPserver - Compute Rosseland mean opacities and radiative accelarations for arbitrary chemical mixtures
- Iron Project - Computation of electron excitation cross sections
- TIPbase - Fine-structure atomic data computed for ions
- TOPbase - Dataset of LS-coupling term energies, f-values and photoionization cross sections for ions
USNO Star Catalogs - Produced from observations made at the U.S. Naval Observatory or re-measurement and/or re-analysis of data taken elsewhere
- Catalog Information and Recommendations

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V-Z

VISTA Data Analysis Software - FTP archive
VizieR Service - CDS/ESRIN tool for retrieving astronomical data from published cataloques and tables
XCATSCAN - Software for scanning Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) databases and other catalogs
XML Resources Page (Extensible Markup Language)
XMM-Newton - SSC (Survey Science Centre)
XSCANPI - Decomissioned 15 March 2002 - Replaced with SCANPI Software, IRSA (Scan Processing and Integration)
WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) - Mission to measure the temperature of the cosmic background radiation over the full sky

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Last checked/updated: 11 December 2007