Major Astronomical Data Centres and Survey Databases
1) Astrophysics Data System
– comprehensive bibliographic database, providing access to the body of published astronomical literature, with extensive links to other data centres
2) NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database –
- provides extensive compilations of extragalactic astronomical data from many sources, and tools for accessing, combining, and interpreting them.
3) Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg –
- provides extensive compilations of astronomical data from many sources, and tools for accessing, combining, and interpreting them
Includes Aladdin, Simbad, and Vizier
4) Other data centres and databases operated by major research facilities and dedicated survey projects
Sloan Digital Sky Survey - http://www.sdss.org/
A survey that maps one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects.
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HEASARC - http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ |
MAST: Multimission Archive at STScI - http://archive.stsci.edu/ |
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Planetary Data System - http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/
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ESO, and Space Telescope Science Archive Facilities - http://archive.eso.org/ |
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DSS - The Digitized Sky Survey - http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/ |
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The VLA FIRST Survey - http://sundog.stsci.edu/ |
UK astronomical data-center - http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/ |
Japanese Astronomical Data Center - http://adac.mtk.nao.ac.jp/ |
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2dF QSo Redshift Survey (2QZ) - http://www.2dfquasar.org |
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Supercosmos Sky Surveys - http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/ |
NVSS Postage Stamp Server - http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/postage.shtml |
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CADC - Canadian Astronomy Data Centre - http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/CADC-homepage.html
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The UnOfficial Chandra Data Archive Search - http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/archive/chandra/search
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NOAO Data Archives - http://www.noao.edu/archives.html |