Rolf A. Jansen's homepage

Teaching:

• AST 494/591 Astrophysics Seminar: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2005
• AST 598 Astronomical Instrumentation & Data Analysis: Fall 2006
• Introductory Astronomy course Sterrenkunde II ('94/'95)

About me:

• My virtual business card
• My Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography.
• My research in non-technical terms: A brief history of the Universe.

Selected projects:

• Maricopa Association of Governments final draft of a Pattern Outdoor Lighting Code and Resource Guide. While not adopted (yet) by any jurisdiction in the Phoenix metropolitan area, the best practices recommended in this document can guide citizens to ways to help preserve energy as well as the ambience of the night sky.
• The Star Formation Camera (SFC), baselined as one of three primary instruments for the 4 m Theia mission concept
• A link to the Nearby Field Galaxy Survey homepage
• A link to the HST/WFPC2 mid-UV homepage
• A link to the HST/STIS "Hydrogen edge" homepage
• Supernova 2005bk in CGCG 223-029

Software related:

• Intro to Unix/Linux for (under)graduate students.
  
  • A talk on C-shell scripts.
  • My range script (C-shell script)
  • My arg / narg utility (gzip-compressed tar; 7 kB)
  
  
• Image Reduction and Analysis Facility homepage at NOAO.
  • my login.cl and loginuser.cl files (IRAF 2.12.2)
  • my rjtools layered external package [version: 12Jul2007]
  • my ccd48 layered external package [version: 06Jul2004]
  • my imclean task (script)
  
  
• Super Mongo online documentation and macros
  • SM tutorial and reference manual (v 2.4.1 – Jul 1996)
  • my SM .sm start-up and default file with useful macros
  • my sm_colors.sm macros defining additional colors
  • my rainbow.lut, rainbow.dat, and wmapangle.dat look-up tables.
  
  
• IDL Astronomy User's Library at GSFC.
  • Autofilet.pro (Jansen et al. 2002) routine and stis2.tar.gz software package (Jansen et al. 2010) to remove the herring-bone pattern noise from HST/STIS "Side-2" CCD data (see also HST program AR-11258).
  
  
• LaTeX hypertext online help.
  
  
• HTML character/glyph encoding table.
  
  
• Install/configuration notes on making a HP Mini 311 notebook dual-boot both the factory-installed Windows XP and CentOS 5.4 linux.

• Astronomy Picture of the Day   /   nederlandse versie

Local weather, Sun & Moon:

Telescopes & Data Archives:

• The James Webb Space Telescope and a Save JWST flyer (PDF) with web-links to more information and petitions that the public may sign to ensure JWST's future.
• The Hubble Space Telescope (at STScI)
  • Proposing to observe with HST, Phase 1 Proposal Roadmap, and HST instruments
  • HST Proposal Information en Duplication checking.
  • HST Data Archive. Check the status of a submitted request.
• U of A / Steward Observatory telescope proposal package
  • overview of telescopes/instruments
  • U of A / Steward telescope schedules
  • The MMT Observatory (aka Multiple Mirror Telescope)
    Instruments, Observer's Reference Links, Skycam & Clear Sky Chart
• Las Campanas Observatory
  • Magellan telescopes (Baade & Clay).
• Vatican Advanced Technology Tescope observer's page (Mt.Graham, AZ); Clear Sky Chart.
  
• The GALaxy Evolution eXplorer (GALEX)
  • Guest Investigator information and proposal page
• The Spitzer Space Telescope (SST; formerly SIRTF)
  • Spitzer Science Center
• ESO home page and ESO observing page (Paranal & La Silla)
  • VLT telescopes (Antu, Kuyen, Melipal, & Yepun)
• F.L. Whipple Observatory homepage.
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
• Digital Sky Survey (versions 1, 2, and Quick-V).
• SDSS SkyServer (Data Release 5 — includes 'finding charts' link).
  • SDSS-DR6 SQL templates one, two and three.

Other astronomy related sites:

• ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) and Department of Physics
  • Webpage of the Cosmology Initiative at ASU within the Depts. of Physics and SESE. (Old Cosmology Group webpages)
  • ASU Schedule of Classes and Academic Calendar
  • ASU Student, Faculty, & Staff Directory page
  • ASU Emma system, UTO Helpdesk, and TSO Systems Status pages
  • ASU Office of Research Integrity and Assurance
  • ASU Forms page (financial services, rental car request)
• European Space Agency
  • Research and Scientific Support Department
• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  • Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • OIR homepage.
  • Smithsonian Institution homepage
• AstroWeb pointers to astronomy-related information on the Internet.
• Current moon phase (or at any time between 1800 and 2200 AD).
• The sky today in Phoenix, AZ (planets; Sun and Moon)
  or in Vlissingen (Netherlands) (planets; Sun and Moon).

• Some nice pictures and text regarding our Milky Way and its neighbours.
• Cool page on Phases of the Moon including lunation movie showing libration
• Astronomy Simulations and Animations (requires flash player or plugin).
• Your age on other planets.

Astronomy publications & pre-prints

• NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service
• xxx.lanl.gov e-Print Archive Astrophysics Preprints and Articles.
• Scientific journals:
  • ApJ and ApJL – The Astrophysical Journal and Letters
    ▪ author info
  • AJ – The Astronomical Journal
    ▪ author info
  • MNRAS – Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
  • PASP – Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
  • A & A (Journal and Letters) – Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • A & AS – Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series.
  • Nature
  • New Astronomy magazine.

Some pointers to non-astronomy sites:

• Sources of news (is there a world outside astronomy?):
  • PBS Newshour (US news).
  • Wereldomroep (dutch news server).
  • NOS teletekst (dutch news server).
  • Volkskrant (dutch newspaper).
  • NRC Handelsblad (another dutch newspaper).
• de telefoongids (KPN telecom, NL).
• MapQuest (online maps and driving directions).
• NS Reisinformatie (Dutch Railroad travel information).
• KLM reis informatie .
• Conversion of medieval (US/GB) to SI units
• Van Dale online woordenboek .
• Esscher and the Droste effect (where Art and Mathematics merge).

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