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 dfits and fitsort)
• Adding an SSH key on github, also see this link
• Making a website
• Gemini IRAF for M1

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

• LCO Weather
• LCO Weather History
• LCO Telescope Schedule
• Fun with scraping

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)

Career

• Finding Undergraduate Research Opportunities by Brandon Barker
• Astronomy PhD to Data Science by Taka Tanaka

Astronomy

• International Astronomy Meetings