Useful links and resources in astronomy

Books, lecture notes, slides:

• Dust modelling, notes by B. Draine: https://irfu.cea.fr/Pisp/frederic.galliano/HDR/hdrch6.html

• Atrophysics of diffuse ISM: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-662-05866-4.pdf

• Numerical Recipes: https://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/phys/aanaqvi/Numerical%20Recipes-The%20Art%20of%20Scientific%20Computing%203rd%20Edition%20(Press%20et%20al).pdf

• Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations: https://learn.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/pluginfile.php/99883/mod_resource/content/1/%21%21%21%21%5BButcher_J.%5D_Numerical_methods_for_ordinary_differ%28BookZZ.org%29.pdf

• Mechanical Engineering Analysis: https://faculty.washington.edu/sbrunton/me564/

• Interstellar Dust Grains, Lecture notes by B. Draince: https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept19/Draine2/paper.pdf

• Characteristrics and Models of Interstellar Dust, talk by X. Tielens: https://www.iap.fr/vie_scientifique/colloques/Colloque_IAP/2011/presentations/Tielens.pdf

• The Interstellar Medium, notes by T. Theuns: https://icc.dur.ac.uk/~tt/Lectures/Galaxies/TeX/lec/node31.html

Coding, plots and stuff:

• How to make science ready plots: https://github.com/garrettj403/SciencePlots

• Python DataScience Handbook: https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/

• Guide for coding in C: https://github.com/LinkedInLearning/complete-guide-to-c-programming-foundations-4504398

• Oracle (check if plots are suitable for colourblind): https://colororacle.org

Useful links for observational astronomy:

• Archive for VLA data: https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu

• Archive for JWST data: https://mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/Clients/Mast/Portal.html

• Archive for ALMA data: https://almascience.nrao.edu/aq/

• General extragalactic database: https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu

• Spitzer documentation: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/spitzerdataarchives/

• Spitzer data archive: https://cassis.sirtf.com

• Atomic and Ionic Fine structure lines: https://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/ISO/linelists/FSlines.html

Useful links for computational astronomy:

• TNG simulation public dataset: https://www.tng-project.org/data/

• Horizon-AGN simulation public dataset: https://www.horizon-simulation.org/data.html

• SIMBA simulation public dataset: http://simba.roe.ac.uk

• EAGLE simulation public dataset: https://icc.dur.ac.uk/Eagle/database.php

• Documentation for the Arepo code: https://arepo-code.org/wp-content/userguide/index.html

• Documentation for the RAMSES code: https://ramses-organisation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Useful links for papers/posters/talks:

• How to give a killer talk: https://hbr.org/2013/06/how-to-give-a-killer-presentation

• How to make a good poster: https://fourwaves.com/blog/how-to-make-a-scientific-poster/

• How to write a good science paper: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/scientific-papers-13815490/

• How to referee a paper: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/apassalacqua/files/refguidelines_tepe.pdf