Astronomical Data Bases and Archives

General Data Bases

• Astronomical Data Center (ADC), USA
  • ADC Electronic Newsletters
    • latest issue received at MPE issue (5/3 , July 1996)
  • Astronomical catalogs (FTP connection)

• The Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF), USA

• Astrophysics Data System (ADS), USA
  • ADS Data Archives
  • ADS Data Catalogs

• Astronomy and Astrophysics at NSSDC
  (National Space Science Data Center, USA)

• Astronomy FTP Sites (SEDS)

• Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France
  • Astronomical catalogs (FTP connection)

• High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), USA

• NASA Data Archive Distribution Service (NDADS), USA

• National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), USA

• NASA Extragalactic Data Base (NED), USA
  This is a Telnet link to the "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". A Telnet window will be opened. Login as "NED" and type in your terminal address on request.
  To fetch output via FTP: connect to 134.4.10.119; cd pub/ned.

• SIMBAD , Strasbourg, France
  • TELNET link to SIMBAD.
    A Telnet window will be opened. You need your personal SIMBAD User-ID and Password (see SIMBAD instructions how to get it).
  • XSimbad link to SIMBAD. A X-window will be opened. You need your Terminal Address , personal SIMBAD User-ID , and Password (see SIMBAD instructions how to get it).

• Sky View : images of the sky in many wavelength bands (GSFC, USA)

• SKYMAP is an interactive astronomical display program which draws a map of the sky. Creation of finder charts is the most common use of skymap. The ability to plot at a particular plate scale, such as that of the Palomar Sky Survey, is particularly useful. The map can be centered on a specific catalog object and include up to two catalogs plus HST Guide Stars. All-sky maps can also be produced to show large structures or the position of a catalog in the big picture. All of the IRAS plate projections are included so objects can be plotted against contoured IR sky flux. Catalog objects may be identified by plotting a catalog over an image.
  SKYMAP Astronomical Mapping Program

• STARCAT
  • Description of STARCAT
  • Run STARCAT.
    This will open a Telnet window. Login as "starcat" and follow the instructions.
    Be sure to have your terminal address ready.

• Web Interface for Searching Archival Research Data (WISARD) at the NASA Data Archive and Distribution Service (NDADS);
  contains X-ray, UV, optical, and IR data.

Specific Data Bases

Radio Data

• MPIfR Radio Survey Sampler , Bonn

IR Data

• Infrared Sky Survey Atlas (ISSA) made by IRAS

Optical Data

• ESO/ST-ECF Archive
• Hubble Space Telescope archive , Garching
• The STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS)
• The General Catalogue of Photometric Data (GCPD)
  The Lausanne Photometric Database; Switzerland

UV Data

X-Ray Data

• ROSAT (public) Data Archive , MPE

Gamma-Ray Data

• Compton-GRO public data archive , COSSC at GSFC

Space Physics Data

• Space Physics Data System - Magnetospheric On-Line Data , USA (The Magnetospheric Yellow Pages)
• Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF), USA
• Space Physics Data System (SPDS), USA
• NSSDC OMNIWeb Near Earth Heloisphere Data, USA
• National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Boulder, USA
• Space Environment Center (SEC), USA

Others

• others (a list from ROSAT)