Frequently Used Links in the Web

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Scientific and Academic Institutes

• Tonantzintla: INAOE, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, home!
• Canarias: Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias
• Cambridge: IoA/ex-RGO
• Edinburgh: ROE/UK ATC
• Euskal Herria: Univ. intercampus node and Dpt. Theoretical Physics
• Garching:
  • MPA : Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik.
  • MPE: Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestriche Physik
  • ESO: European Southern Observatory
  • ST-ECF Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility
• Madrid: Dpto. Física Teórica de la Univ. Autónoma de Madrid.
• Mexico-DF: IA-UNAM
• Padova: Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
• Societies:
  • AMC: Academia Mexicana de Ciencias
  • RAS: Royal Astronomical Society
  • SEA: Sociedad Española de Astronomía
  • Marie Curie Fellow Association
  • CSWA@AAS
• Extensive lists of resources AstroWeb CDS

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Telescopes & Instrumentation

• Chile, La Silla and Paranal: ESO European Southern Observatory.
• Mexico:
  • Cananea: Guillermo Haro Obs..
  • La Negra: GTM-LMT, Gran Telescopio Milimétrico.
  • Obs. Astronómico Nacional San Pedro Martir & Tonantzintla
• Space:
  • Spitzer Space Telescope
  • Herschel Space Observatory.
  • HST: Hubble Space Telescope.
  • International Ultraviolet Explorer
  • Infrared Space Observatory
• Spain:
  • Calar Alto: CAHA: Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán
  • La Palma:
    • GTC, Gran Telescopio Canarias
    • ING Telescopes: Isaac Newton Group Telescopes.
    • NOT Nordic Optical Telescope
    • TNG, Telescopio Nazionale Galileo.
    • Liverpool Telescope
  • Pico Veleta: IRAM: Instituto de Radio Astronomia Milimetrica.
• USA, Mauna Kea (Hawaii):
  • Gemini
  • CFHT: Canada France Hawaii Telescope
  • UKIRT: United Kingdom Infrared Telescope.
  • JCMT: James Clark Maxwell Telescope.
  • SMA: Submillimeter Array

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Other Work Links

• Sky Surveys: POSS @ STScI, APM, NRAO VLA.
• Catalogues:
  • CDS Strasbourg ADC Astronomical Data Center
  • NED NASA Extragalactic Database
  • SIMBAD Database
• Tools:
  • Julian Date Converter
  • Ephemerides of the Solar System with Horizon @ JPL.
• International astronomy meetings
• Job hunting:
  • AAS job register,
  • Astrophysics Jobs Rumor Mill
• Grants:
  • CONACyT (Mexico)
  • Research Directorate of the European Union
• Directories of Astronomers: Starheads
• News: Astronomy Picture of the Day @ NASA, Agencia de Noticias de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias

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Current Work Links

• Meetings:
  • Science with ALMA: a new era for Astrophysics, Madrid, Spain, 1-16 November, 2006.
  • III International Workshop on Science with the GTC: First Light Science with the GTC, Miami, Florida, 28-30 June, 2006.
  • From z-Machines to ALMA, Charlottesville, Virginia, 13-14 January, 2006.
• Science Programs:
  • Surveys in which I am involved:
    SHADES (SCUBA Half Degree Survey),
    BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope)
  • Other surveys:
    GOODS (The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey)
    SLOAN
  • Dust maps: DIRBE/IRAS
  • AGN: AGN Watch campaigns.
  • SN/SNR: Recent SNe Page, Padova/Asiago Catalogue, Weiler's SNe/SNR/LFR Page, CfA Group Page, SN Cosmology Project and Marcos Montes' SN Resources List
• Other people's course material:
  • Niel Brandt's X-ray investigations of AGN

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Scientific Literature

• Circulars: Recent IAU
• On-line Journals: A&A, AJ, ApJ, ARAA, MNRAS, Nat, New Astron., PASP, RevMexAA (&SC)
• Abstracts: ADS Abstract Service @Harvard, @ESO,
• Preprints: SISSA: database (USA mirror) and the latest in SISSA (USA mirror).
• Reviews/Tutorials: Level 5@NASA/IPAC, Statistical Consulting Center
• Electronic conference proceedings: Posters of the Starburst-AGN Connection (2001)
• Books:
  • Numerical Recipes: and a warning about it.
  • StatSoft Electronic Textbook
• Other Science publications: Sci. American, Sky & Telescope
• Catalogues from major Astro publishers: ASP Conf. Series, Cambridge Univ. Press, Kluwer, Springer Verlag, World Scientific, Prentice Hall Inc., Princeton Univ. Press, University Science Books, Addison-Wesley , SPIE
• Donations: AAS

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Computers

• Software:
  • Languages: Notes on FORTRAN, F90 for F77 programers
  • Astronomy: IRAF@NOAO and its mirrow @ST-ECF. Packages maintained by Starlink. CLOUDY
  • Maths and Statistics: StatLib , NIST Guide, StatCodes
  • IDL: Astronomy Library, Coyote's guide, M. Fardal's Library, Graphics
  • for Linux: Documentation project 2, Sunsite, Software Map, Applications
  • for Windows: Winsite shareware
• Hardware:
  • Toshiba-Europe
  • Hewlett-Packard Calculators

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Languages

• Basque:
  • Euskara -> XXX LOGOS hiztegia eta EHU gramatika
• English: Merrian-Webster dictionary, Acronym Finder
• French <-> English dictionary
• German:
  • Englisch <-> Deutsch dictionary.
  • unregelmessige deutsche Verben
• Spanish:
  Real Academia Española (diccionarios, reglas ortográficas, etc)
  • Diccionarios Anaya Español -> XXX,

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Money

• Banking information in
  • Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa (Euskal Herria)
  • Santander Central Hispano (Spain)
  • Barclays Bank (UK)
• Currency exchange rates: Xenon Labs facilities.

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Media

• News:
  • In Spanish: El País (Madrid) y El Correo (País Vasco) El Universal (México)
  • In Basque: Berria (Euskal Herria)
  • In English: The Telegraph, The Guardian (UK), International Herald Tribune, BBC
• Governmental editions:
  • Basque Country: Eusko Jaurlaritzaren Euskadi eta Bilboko Udalaren Bilbao orriak.
  • Spain: Boletín Oficial del Estado
  • European Union: Europa
• Leisure: Time Out (London, Madrid...)

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Art

• Cinema:
  • Schedules in Mexico: Cinépolis, Cineteca Nacional
  • Reviews in the Internet Movie Database
• Music:
  • The Piano Page
  • CD's of Classical Music at consortium of companies, Classical Net and
  • Opera Schedules: around de World.
• Paintings: George Pompidou

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Travel & Transportation

• Long distance transportation:
  • Travel Agencies (flight searches): SABRE
  • Airlines: Iberia, Delta, American Airlines
  • Train: European network search through DB (Germany). Also RENFE (Spain).
• Guides on cities and countries:
  • Lonely Planet on-line
  • London Tool Kit (hotels, transportations etc)
• Maps and others:
  • Current local time in...
  • Weather forecasts in: Mexico, and around the World
  • Catastrophie watch: CENAPRED (Popo), SSN (earthquakes)

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Food

• Guide to Spanish wines

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Health

• Medical info: Health A to Z search list.
• Disease descriptions in Body Link and Dr. Bovo.
• S.P.O.T. if you are a woman or care about them.

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Sports

• Mountaineering:
  • Everest News
  • Gear: REI (US), Northern-mountain (US), Feathered-friends (US), Schuster Sport (Munich), Marmot, The North Face
• Scuba Diving:
  • Agencies, research & insurance: DAN (Intl), BSAC (UK)
  • Newsgroups: Scuba Board (USA), Buzo Noticias (Mx), Mas de buceo (Spain)
  • Operators I use: Big Island Divers (Hawaii), Scubaver (Mexico).
  • Sites in Hawaii Big Island: Kona Coast Divers' guide (in Shore Diving Maps, Shores of West Hawaii)
  • Shore Sites around the world: Shore diving
  • Marine Life: REEF, FishBase, Marine Biology
  • Dictionaries: multilingual
  • Gear: Scubapro, Scubastore (internet)

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Friends & Colleagues

• Iñigo Eguskiza @ Euskal Herriko Unib., Leioa, Basque Country (Spain).
• Isobel Hook @ Oxford (UK)
• Adi Nusser @ Technion, Haifa (Israel)
• Eduardo Telles @ Observatotio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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Miscellanea

• Bookbinding with Jones and Red Eye
• Amnesty International and its Spanish branch.
• Greenpeace
• End of Violence against Women in Ciudad Juarez,
• Sydney Opera House says "No War"
• Shops:
  • Bookshops: Heffers (Cambridge, UK), Amazon (US)
• Auctions: ebay

Last modified 5th June 2006