Astronomy Research Guide
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This guide provides information sources relating to professional
astronomy. It is intended as a comprehensive portal for academic faculty,
graduate students in astronomy, and advanced undergrads conducting
research. Resources include materials available electronically (both
information licensed through the NCSU Libraries and information freely
available) and print materials held in the D. H. Hill Library.
Use the Table of Contents on the left to navigate through the following topics:
- Article and Preprint Databases- use this to find articles, abstracts, citations, and preprints
- Data Centers- Web interfaces to raw data collections from astronomical catalogs, instruments, and missions
- Individual journal tools (from CDS) resources focused on searching individual journals such as the ApJ, AJ, PASP, A&A
- Electronic Journalsaccess to fulltext journals that NCSU subscribes to; information about older journals
- Tutorial- for the CDS tools (VizieR, Aladin, and Simbad)
- Professional Organizations- websites on major professional organizations
- Major Observatories- websites for some major observatories
- Software- including data reduction and statistical packages
- Astronomy Libraries and other resources for Librarians
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