Rolf A. Jansen's homepage

Teaching:

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

About me:

• My virtual business card
• My Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography.

Selected projects:

• 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 rainbow.lut, rainbow.dat, and wmapangle.dat look-up tables.
  
  
• IDL Astronomy User's Library at GSFC.
  • Autofilet.pro (Jansen et al. 2002) routine to remove the herring-bone pattern noise from HST/STIS CCD data.
  
  
• LaTeX hypertext online help.
  
  
• HTML character/glyph encoding table.
  

• Astronomy Picture of the Day   /   nederlandse versie

Local weather, Sun & Moon:

Telescopes & Data Archives:

• 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 and Observer's Reference Links
• Las Campanas Observatory
  • Magellan telescopes (Baade & Clay).
• Vatican Advanced Technology Tescope observer's page (Mt.Graham, AZ).
  IRAF/ICE script, standards.cl,to cycle through multiple filters.
• 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 Group within SESE
  • ASU Schedule of Classes and Academic Calendar
  • ASU Student, Faculty, & Staff Directory page
  • ASU Emma system, UTO Helpdesk, and TSO Systems Status pages
  • ASU Facilities Management Forms page (motor pool)
  • ASU Financial Services Forms page (travel authorization and claims)
• European Space Agency
  • Research and Scientific Support Department
• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  • Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • OIR homepage.
  • Smithsonian Institution homepage
• NASA Office of Space Science (Code S) research opportunities
• 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 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
  • submitted/accepted papers in ApJL, ApJ and ApJS.
  • AJ old / new – The Astronomical Journal
    ▪ author info and papers submitted.
  • 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?):
  • NOS teletekst (dutch news server).
  • Volkskrant (dutch newspaper).
  • NRC Handelsblad (another dutch newspaper).
  • Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (live dutch radio).
• de telefoongids (KPN telecom, NL).
• MapQuest (online maps and driving directions).
• NS Reisinformatie (Dutch Railroad travel information).
• KLM reis informatie .
• GWK wisselkoersen .
• Air-fares .
• 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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