Resources
Spectroscopy
- MIKE Observing Instructions
- MOOG
- My version of MOOG 2017 (includes Jen Sobeck’s scattering routines)
- SMHR
- LESSPayne (under development)
- JINAbase
- Placco Carbon Corrections
- NLTE grids by Bergemann et al., Lind et al., Mashonkina et al.
- Atomic Data from NIST, VALD (requires registration), Kurucz (a version of this is being maintained here by Vini Placco, with a parallel version maintained by me here.)
Simulation analysis
- Rockstar halo finder with iterative unbinding
- Caterpillar simulations github repository
- Caterpillar simulations website and documentation
Science animations
- JINA movies (r-process), also see Skynet by Jonas Lippuner
- Discovery history of Milky Way Satellites by Marcel Pawlowski
Practical Computing
- UNIX Cheat Sheet
- Software Carpentry
- Stanford Physics 91SI
- Astrobetter setting up a new Mac. My defaults are: XQuartz, XCode command line utils, macports, and homebrew; emacs, AquaMacs, Sublime 2; Anaconda (python 3).
- ESO Eclipse (almost exclusively for
dfitsandfitsort) - Adding an SSH key on github, also see this link
- Making a website
- Gemini IRAF for M1
- Phil Massey setting up a new Mac
Python
- Alex’s python modules for science analysis
- Python Data Science Handbook by Jake Vanderplas (Amazon link)
- Astropy (and github repo).
- Seaborn: nice statistical data visualization
- Pandas cheatsheet
- Scipy lectures
- Bayesian Sampling in Python
- Matplotlib cheatsheet
Latex Links
- Detexify: draw symbols and get the corresponding Latex command
- Table generator
Scientific Writing
- Writing a proposal by Julianne Dalcanton
- Paper writing by Julianne Dalcanton
- Scientific Writing Workshop (Carnegie Summer Students 2017)
Las Campanas Observatory
Advice
- Hamming: You and Your Research
- 11 Rules for Meetings
- The Good Talk Talk by Natasha Batalha
- How to be a good graduate student
- The importance of stupidity in scientific research
- How to ask for recommendation letters
- Writing effectively (video)
- Six bad reasons to do an MD PhD (and a PhD too)
Career
- Finding Undergraduate Research Opportunities by Brandon Barker
- Astronomy PhD to Data Science by Taka Tanaka