GALAXIES

Extragalactic bookmarks

• Extragalactic databases
• Catalogues and data
• Extragalactic Tools & S/W
• Groups or teams active in Extragalactic astronomy
• Projects & Survey homepages
• Personal homepages
• Abstract and Preprint services
• Other lists of astronomical sites
• Educational Astronomy
• Astronomy Teaching in France

Extragalactic databases

• Hypercat : Our database
• The SIMBAD database (in Strasbourg)
  • WWW interface in CDS (IP controlled access)
  • WWW interface in CADC (Canada)
• The LEDA database (here in Lyon)
• The NED database
  • telnet access (log-in with the username: ned)
  • WWW
  • WWW interface in CADC (Canada)
• Extragalactic Cepheids Database (Lyon)
• Astronomy Digital Image Library (ADIL)
• CATS database - Astrophysical CATalogs support System A. Gubanov, St.-Petersburg
• MPIfR's Survey Sampler
• HI Multibeam Data Archive (CSIRO, Australia)
• The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (Leiden Observatory)
• Asiago Database on Photometric Systems (Moro and Munari, Asiago)
• Digital Sky Survey
  • ST-Sci
  • CADC
  • ESO
  • NASA-GFSC
  • ADAC (Japan)
  • SkyEye (Bologna, Italy)
  • LEDAS (Leicester, UK)
• SDSS Early Data Release
• 2dFGRS 100k Data Release

Catalogues and data

• Catalogues available at the CDS, at ADC, and at ADS
• HST archive browser (at ST-ECF )
• Heinz Andernach collected catalogues
• Zsolt Frei's Catalogue of Images of Galaxies
• Reduzzi and Rampazzo Catalogue of Pairs of Galaxies (Milano, Brera)
• Chengalur-Nordgren Galaxy Pair Data (Optical images and HI maps)
• The Mark III Catalog of Galaxy Peculiar Velocities: Data (Stanford)
• Catalog of Velocity Dispersion (by Douglas McElroy )
• Keel's Catalogs and data
• The catalogue of Arp galaxies (with links to images)
• Atlas of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies (Daniel Puche)
• Rotation curves of galaxies: A bibliographical Catalog (V.V.Demin, A.V.Zasov, L.N.Petrochenko)
• Atlas of Structures in Early Type Galaxies (Petra Böhm et al.)
• The Seyfert Galaxies Homepage (R. Peletier, University of Nottingham)
• A Database of UV-Optical Spectra of Nearby Quiescent and Active Galaxies
• Galaxies showing HI Absorption (B. Koribalski)
• Compact groups of galaxies (P. Hickson)

Extragalactic Tools & S/W

• Starburst99
• Evolutionary Population Models for Early-type Galaxies (Worthey 1994)
• Code PEGASE (Rocca and Fioc 1998)
• N-Body Methods Resources
• NEMO - A Stellar Dynamics Toolbox(Teuben, P.J.)
• Treecode (J. Barnes)
• Model of stellar population synthesis of the Galaxy(Obs. Besancon)
• Evolutionary Population Synthesis (Alberto Buzzoni)
• MOVED?? Evolutionary Synthesis (O. Kurth et al.)
• Libraries of stellar spectra (D. Montes)
• Empirical calibration of the 4000 A break
• Stellar kinematics and dynamics S/W (van der Marel)
• Losvd fitting IDL code (T. Statler)
• Unresolved Gaussian Decomposition (Kuijken Koen)
• Cross-correlation package RVSAO 2.0: digital redshifts and radial velocities; IRAF (Kurtz M.J., Mink D.J.)
• Dust Map - Galactic extinction (Marc Davis, Berkeley)
• ESO-LV Galactic Extinction Model (Cholonewski and Valentijn)
• Hyperz Photometric redshift code (Pello et al., Toulouse)

Groups active in Extragalactic astronomy

• Programme National GALAXIES (PNG)(CNRS, France)
• IAU commission 28 (galaxies)
• CRAL-galaxies : Our homepage.
• Observatoire de Paris-Meudon DAEC , DEMIRM
• Physique des Galaxies (IAS Orsay)
• Dynamics (Leiden Observatory)
• Obelix (Osservatorio di Padova)
• OAC (Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli)
• MPA-Garching (Formations of galaxies, Simon White)
• Galaxy Group (Uppsala University)
• Dynamics of Galaxies (Prague)
• Magellanic Clouds research group in Bonn
• Galaxies and Cosmology SISSA
• Dynamique des galaxies (Observatoire de Marseille)
• Galactic dynamics (Observatoire de Geneve)
• Galaxies(Observatoire de Besancon)
• Active Galaxies University of Hertfordshire
• Cardiff Extragalactic Group
• Extragalactic Astronomy Group (Observatory of Torino)
• Cornell ExtraGalactic Group (EGG)
• Extragalactic research group (Gorgas, UCM, Madrid)
• Extragalactic Astronomy in Durham Physics Department
• Program in Extragalactic Astronomy Active galactic nuclei, Georgia State University
• The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter (Eva K. Grebel)
• Dwarf Tales An electronic dwarf galaxy newsletter (Elias Brinks)
• Birmingham
• Bochum
• Starburst and Galaxy Evolution(STSCI, Baltimore)
• Normal Galaxies (Landessternwarte Heidelberg)
• Extragalactic Astronomy at Wisconsin
• Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
• IUCAA India
• IAGLUniversité de Liège
• ExtraGalactic Researchs (UMASS)
• Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology (ICSTM, UK)
• Stellar Populations Group Cambridge, UK

Projects & Survey homepages

• Astronomical Survey Projects Resources (AstroWeb)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• 2mass

• The Barred and Ringed Spirals project
• The Nearby Field Galaxy Survey (R.A. Jansen, Arizona State University)
• Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey
• H0 Key project (Caltech)
• EFAR
• The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP)
• Westerbork observations of neutral Hydrogen in Irregular and SPiral galaxies (WHISP)
• KISS KPNO International Spectroscopic Survey
• Medium Deep Survey (MDS) HST, Ratnatunga
• The 2dF Fornax Spectroscopic Survey (M. Drinkwater)
• The Hamburg/ESO QSO Survey
• Redshift (and photometric) surveys
  • The Muenster Redshift Project
  • Streaming Motions of Abell Clusters (SMAC)
  • ENACS: ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey
  • The Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS)
  • The Canada-France Redshift Survey
  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • The 2DF Redshift Survey
  • The Canadian Network for Observational Cosmology (CNOC)
  • The IRAS PSCz Redshift Survey
  • The ESO Slice Project: A Galaxy Redshift Survey in the South Galactic Pole Region

Personal homepages

• Djorgovski George Caltech
• Peletier Reynier (University of Nottingham)
• Kormendy John(University of Hawaii)
• Bender Ralf(Munich)
• Davoust Emmanuel(Observatoire de Toulouse)
• Contini Thierry (Strasbourg)
• de Jong Roelof see, in particular his thesis: Spiral Galaxies: The light and color distributions in the optical and near-infrared
• Colless Matthew (Mount Stromlo)
• Esquerdo GilBarred Galaxies in the infrared (Planetary Science Institute)
• Patsis Panos A.Spiral and barred Galaxies (MPIA, Heidelberg) )
• Telles Eduardo(HII Galaxies, Sao Paulo)
• Buta Ronald J. (Texas)
• Morganti Raffaella (ATNF, Australia)
• MOVED? Westpfahl David J. (Dynamics and Kinematics of Nearby Galaxies)
• Irwin Judith Outflows from Spiral Galaxies (Queen's University, Kingston)
• Thakar AniCounterrotating Disks in Spiral Galaxies (Johns Hopkins University)
• Zaritsky Dennis (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Carignan Claude Mass Distribution in Spiral and Dwarf Galaxies (Montreal)
• MOVED? Rhee Myung-Hyun Dynamics, Kinematics and Structure of Spiral Galaxies (Kapteyn, Groningen)
• Pahre Mike Elliptical Galaxies in Rich Clusters (California Institute of Technology)
• Davis Marc Large Scale Velocity fields (University of California at Berkeley)
• Schwartzenberg Jean Marc Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (Bristol University)
• Wolfgang Steffen Active galaxies (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico)
• Reshetnikov Vladimir Polar-Ring Galaxies (St.Petersburg)
• Ashish Mahabal(IUCAA, India)
• Beaulieu Sylvie Dwarf galaxies, Dynamics with PNs (Institute of Astronomy , Cambridge)
• Omar Almaini X-Rays (Edinburgh)
• Higdon James HI (Paul Wild Observatory, Australia)
• Geiersbach, U. Rotation of Spiral Galaxies (Bochum, Germany)
• Zasov, Anatoly V. Extragalactic astronomy (Moscow State University, Russia)
• Whittle D. Mark Active galaxies, Star formation in galaxies (University of Virginia)
• Odewahn Stephen C.Formation and evolution of galaxies (CALTECH)
• Patterson Ricky Dwarf galaxies (ANU)
• Thuan Trinh X. Evolution of galaxies (University of Virginia)
• Romanowsky A. Dynamics of E-Galaxies (Harvard University)
• Schombert James Galaxy evolution and formation (University of Oregon)
• O'Neil Karen LSB galaxies (University of Oregon)
• Miller Bryan Nearby Dwarf Galaxies (Leiden)
• Kelson Daniel D. Early type galaxies (Carnegie)
• Arabadjis J. S.Stellar dynamics (MIT)
• Richstone Douglas O. Black Holes in Galaxy Centers (Univ. Michigan)
• Mateo Mario Dwarf Galaxies
• van der Marel Roeland Kinematics, stellar dynamics
• Brown Beth A.X-rays in ellipticals (Univ. Michigan)
• Hibbard John Gas in Interacting Galaxies (NRAO)
• Tonry John L. Surface Brightness Fluctuations (IFA, Hawaii)
• Galletta Giuseppe Kinematics (Padova)
• Kuijken Konrad Kinematics (Kapteyn Institute)
• Lucey J. Peculiar velocities (Durham)
• Bershady Matthew A. Faint Field Galaxy Surveys (Wisconsin)
• Sparke Linda S. Structure and dynamics of galaxies (Wisconsin)
• Wilson Christine D.Star formation in nearby galaxies (McMaster University)
• Koopmann Rebecca A. Environmental Effects and Star Formation (Union College)
• White Raymond E. Hot gas (U. Alabama)
• Mizony Michel Relativity (U. Lyon)
• Perlman Eric Blazars, AGN, Radio-galaxies
• Sarajedini Vicki AGN
• Sansom Anne Stellar populations, Interstellar medium (Lancashire, UK)
• Helsdon Stephen Groups of galaxies (Birmingham, UK)

E-Thesis

• Spiral Galaxies: The light and color distributions in the optical and near-infraredde Jong Roelof
• The Dynamical Evolution of Dense Rotating Stellar Systems Arabadjis J. S.
• Contribution to the evolutionary spectral synthesis of globular clusters and galaxies by calibration of stella libraries Lejeune Thibault
• Bars in Edge-On Spiral GalaxiesBureau, M. 1998, Ph.D. Thesis, The Australian National University
• The Nature of Early-Type Galaxies at the z=0.5 Epoch Wirth, G. PhD Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz (1996)
• Analyse statistique de la distribution spatiale des galaxies et des amas A. Cappi, PhD Thesis, 1993, univ. Paris
• Properties of E and S0 Galaxies in the Clusters HydraI and Coma Master's Thesis, University of Copenhagen, Bo Milvang-Jensen, 1997
• GAIA Galaxy Survey Mattia Vaccari, Tesi di Laurea in Fisica, Padova, 2000
• Properties of E and S0 Galaxies in the Clusters HydraI and Coma Bo Milvang-Jensen, University of Nottingham, July, 1997
• Classification of Galaxies Using Fractal Dimensions Sandip G. Thanki (MS thesis, Nevada)

Virtual observatory and datamining

• Virtual Observatory Forum
• Virtual Observatories of the Future
• Data-Mining URLs
• The Digital Sky Project
• IDHA
• IASTROComputational and Information Infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid
• IUCAA (Pune, India)
• RVO Russian Virtual Observatory

Abstract and Preprint services

• ADS (CDS mirror)
• CDS (Bibliography and Abstracts)
• astro-ph (Jussieu mirror) (Preprints and archived papers)
• RGO Email Guide
• List of astronomy meetings (Liz Bryson, CFH)
• Very simplified interface to locate somebody:
  
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• Bibcode query to ADS
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Other lists of astronomical sites

• AstroWeb WAIS index at CDS:
• WWW Astronomical sites in France
• Galaxies with the UREC search engine
• Observatoire de Haute-Provence
• Yahoo france: Astronomie
• Planetclick (galaxies)
• Observatoire de Paris-Meudon
• Jeff bondono list of x-galactic sites
• Extra-Galactic Astronomy (Gary Agranat)
• WWW Virtual Library: Astronomy (AstroWeb consortium)
• French extragalacticians
• Russian extragalacticians
• Links pertinent to SuperNovae