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Here are some resources for students who are interested in astronomy research with a focus on galaxy formation and evolution. This is mostly keeping the Bangladeshi students in mind, who has limited access to astronomy research resources from their undergraduate studies, but should be useful for anyone who is starting out.
Some Useful Links
Some Useful Links
Reference tools:
Astrophysics data system: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/
Archive for the open-source version of almost all the astronomy papers. This link has the list of the most recent submissions: https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/recent
Public datasets from astronomy surveys:
SDSS MAGPHYS catalog: https://irfu.cea.fr/Pisp/yu-yen.chang/sw.html
eROSITA catalogs of Xray sources and galaxy clusters: https://datashare.mpcdf.mpg.de/s/1sKl4zw6EUnkigj
DESI Legacy survey DR9 galaxy ad cluster catalogs: https://www.scidb.cn/en/detail?dataSetId=7797b553a23846a187b7746d8fc555a5#detail_start
DESI Legacy survey DR10 galaxy and cluster catalogs: http://zmtt.bao.ac.cn/galaxy_clusters/catalogs.html
Survey viewer and imaging tools:
eROSITA viewer tool: https://erass-cluster-inspector.com/index.php
NASA High energy skyview: https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/current/cgi/titlepage.pl#:~:text=SkyView%20is%20a%20Virtual%20Observatory,visualize%20a%20region%20of%20sky.
DESI Legacy survey viewer: https://www.legacysurvey.org/viewer#NGC%207785
Some more useful resources:
Swinburne astronomy encyclopedia: https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/
Textbooks and Online Courses
Textbooks and Online Courses
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
by Houjun Mo, Frank van den Bosch, Simon White:
https://www.astro.umd.edu/~richard/ASTRO620/MBW_Book_Galaxy.pdf
Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction
by L. S. S. Sparke and J. S. Gallagher:
https://www.amazon.ca/Galaxies-Universe-Introduction-Linda-Sparke/dp/0521671868
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Onboarding materials from L. A. Mowla: https://www.mowlaastrogroup.com/onboarding
Cosmological Simulations
Cosmological Simulations
Review papers:
Vogelsberger 2020+: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020NatRP...2...42V/abstract
Crain+2023: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ARA%26A..61..473C/abstract
Hydrangea / Cluster EAGLE simulations:
Hydrangea docs: https://hydrangea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/crossref.html
Hydrangea FTP: https://ftp.strw.leidenuniv.nl/bahe/Hydrangea/
Tools/Methods
Tools/Methods
Source Extractor for detecting sources and masking them: https://sextractor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Introduction.html
DS9 for image viewing
Useful Python libraries: numpy, scipy, astropy, matplotlib, pandas, seaborn, scikit-learn
Google Sites
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