Haphazard collection of possibly useful things...
Eric's command line command summary
Mac Tips
Example .cshrc file
________________________________________Journals
ADS - search for published papers, specific authors, or keywords.
astro-ph - updated each weekday with papers accepted to journals.
Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics - useful for subject reviews, if that wasn't obvious.
Nature - papers and other articles which don't always appear on astro-ph.
Science - papers and other articles which don't always appear on astro-ph.
Others journals: ApJ, AJ, A&A, PASP, MNRAS, PASJ, ANProtostars & Planets (IV & V) Conference proceedings. Someone in dept. will have copy/access.
Setting up a VPN with your university username can allow access to these when out work. ________________________________________
Mail.app on a mac - needs username and password from John Rowe.
Pine - use from terminal. Can be used to access e-mail remotely by ssh-ing to linux machines. ________________________________________Programming
Some of us use Fortran, Perl, and\or C. Compliers: you should have g95 installed on your mac. Otherwise, speak to someone else. ________________________________________Editors
Nedit - simple, easy to use, good shortcuts.
Emacs - popular.
VI - oldschool.
Pico - use from command line for very quick editing.
________________________________________Latex
You'll use this when writing papers, your thesis, CVs, and pretty much anything someelse is going to read.Can be used from the command line or TeXshop application on your mac.
Example tex file and style file etc. for an A&A paper. ________________________________________
Plotting
You will probably have two plotting needs: quick plots and good plots.Graph - (in TimN's Ark software collection) - can be used for both purposes.
Gnuplot - very quick and easy to use from the command line.
PGPLOT - Plotting subroutines which can be called from Fortran, C, and Perl programs. Requires a bit more work but can do a lot.
IRAF - can also be used for plots, use only if you're going to use IRAF for other things. Otherwise: walk away.
________________________________________Image Display
DS9 - use with IRAF.Gaia - starlink software.
Skycat - ESO software built around Gaia. ________________________________________
Data Reduction
Programming language of your choice.IRAF - once installed type "cl" to start
ARK - Tim N's ARK software
IDL
Python/Pyraf
Numerical Recipes - fortan and C subroutines.
NAG Library - more numerical subroutines.
________________________________________Observing
Where?La Palma - WHT, INT, Liverpool Telescope
Hawaii - UKIRT, Gemini North, JCMT, CFHT
Chile - ESO VLT at Paranal, others at La Silla.
Austrailia - AAT
Space... - Spitzer, Chandra, HST
Telescope proposals - call for proposals usually twice a year. ESO and others end of March and September for semester starting six months later. ________________________________________
Expected First Year Tasks
Literature Review - JanuaryFirst year report - April/May ->
First Year Talk - Oct/Nov
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Demonstrating/Teaching
LabsMarking
Telescope talks for UCAS days etc. ________________________________________
Astronomy
SIMBAD - search for particular objects
Vizier - collection of astronomical catalogs
NED - NASA Extragalactic Database
________________________________________Other Useful Programs
Maple - on linux machines ________________________________________
Your other homespace..
As well as on your mac, you will have a homespace on the linux machines. Access by ssh-ing onto any (e.g. pinky, taz).Can access your mail remotely from here and get to your webspace. ________________________________________
Other how-tos
http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/lecture/computing/
http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/lecture/computing/notes/out/scripting.pdf