Rolf A. Jansen's homepage

at the School of Earth and Space Exploration of the
Arizona State University, Tempe

Teaching:

• AST 598/494 Basics of CCDs and Astronomical Imaging: Fall 2016.
• AST 598 Astronomical Instrumentation & Data Analysis: Fall 2006, Fall 2013, Fall 2014.
• AST 494/591 Astrophysics Seminar: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2005.
• 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.
• Development of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field.
• Roman (formerly WFIRST)/Wide Field Instrument information, tools, and models from the `Cosmic Dawn' Science Investigation Team (SIT).
• The Star Formation Camera (SFC), baselined as one of three primary instruments for the 4 m Theia mission concept.
• HST/STIS "Side-2" pattern noise removal archival legacy program.
• Supernova 2005bk in CGCG 223-029.
• HST/STIS "Hydrogen edge" homepage.
• The Nearby Field Galaxy Survey.

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Software related:

• Intro to Unix/Linux for (under)graduate students, or here for a beginner's course.
  • A talk on C-shell scripts.
  • My range script (C-shell script).
  • My arg / narg utility (v2.3 [May 2013]; gzip-compressed tar-file) to generate scripts from template ones.
  • My mkmask utility (v0.9 [β-version, May 2013]; gzip-compressed tar-file) to generate or update mask images from DS9 regions files or IRAF pixel lists.

• Image Reduction and Analysis Facility at NOAO (defunct) and iraf.net (new).
  • my login.cl and loginuser.cl files (legacy IRAF2.12.2).
  • 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 and sm_colors.dat look-up table defining hundreds of additional colors.
  • my wmapangle.dat look-up table.

• 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).
  • Galprof.pro (v1.0, Jun 2015) routine to perform simple surface photometry within a set of growing elliptical annuli. Requires minimal prior info as to location, shape and orientation, and can handle background gradients.

• Python.
  • matplotlib tutorials and PyPlot command summary.
  • Colors in matplotlib and the 954 most common RGB colors (xkcd).

• LaTeX hypertext online help.
   
• HTML character/glyph encoding table.
   
• Nu HTML Checker.

Telescopes & Data Archives:

• The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
  • Instruments & JWST User Documentation:
    • MIRI, NIRCam, NIRISS, and NIRSpec.
  • Proposing to observe with JWST.
  • Proposal tools, incl. ETC (v1.5).
  • JWST Program Information
• The Hubble Space Telescope (at STScI)
  • Proposing to observe with HST, Phase 1 Proposal Roadmap, and HST instruments.
  • HST Program Information and Duplication checking.
  • HST Data Archive. Check the status of a submitted request.
  • MAST Discovery Portal (access to MAST and VO in one place).
  • News Releases; what is HST observing now?
• The Chandra X-ray Observatory (at CfA)
  • Proposing to observe with Chandra.
  • Chandra Proposal Information.
• U of A / Steward Observatory telescope proposals page
  • news.
  • U of A / Steward telescope schedules (MMT; Magellan)
  • The LBT Observatory, Instruments Overview; LBT Archive.
  • The MMT Observatory (aka Multiple Mirror Telescope), Instruments, Observer's Tools, Comparison Lamp Spectra, Skycam & Clear Sky Chart
• Las Campanas Observatory
  • Magellan telescopes (Baade & Clay).
• Vatican Advanced Technology Tescope observer's page (Mt.Graham, AZ); Clear Sky Chart; Basecamp & summit web-cams, and All Sky Camera.
• The GALaxy Evolution eXplorer (GALEX)
• The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF)
  • Spitzer Science Center
• ESO home page and ESO observing (Paranal & La Silla) and facilities pages
  • VLT telescopes & instruments (Antu, Kuyen, Melipal, & Yepun)
• F.L. Whipple Observatory homepage.
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
  • Coordinate Transformations and Galactic extinction calculator
• NASA/IPAC InfraRed Science Archive (IRSA) (Spitzer, WISE, SOFIA, 2MASS, Herschel, Planck).
• Montage Image Mosaic Engine, Jupyter notebooks, and (offline per Mar 2021) On-demand Image Mosaic Service.
• Digital Sky Survey (versions 1, 2, and Quick-V).
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey and SkyServer (DR16) — including Finding Chart service.
  • SDSS-III (DR12) SQL templates (obsolete) one, two, and three.
  • SDSS CasJobs site for SDSS (DR16).
• APASS: AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (Johnson B,V [Vega], and Sloan g', r', i' [AB] stellar photometry for 7<m<17 mag.

Other astronomy related sites:

• ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) and Department of Physics
  • COVID-19:
    1. ASU Health Check or call +1(844)448-0031
    2. Employee Testing (requires "Point and Click Solutions" account)
    3. Hotline (in case of symptoms): +1(844)542-8201
       
  • 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 (obsolete), UTO Helpdesk, TSO Systems Status pages, and Facilities (outages/maintenance)
  • ASU Office of Research Integrity and Assurance
  • My ASU Trip travel system.
  • ASU Forms page (financial services, rental car request)
• European Space Agency
  • Research and Scientific Support Department (Science Directorate)
• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  • Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
• Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
  • OIR homepage.
  • Smithsonian Institution homepage

• Ned Wright's Cosmology Calculator and Advanced Cosmology Calculator.

• Christopher Willmer's table of the Absolute Magnitude of the Sun, and Vega-to-AB magnitude transformation for many common filters.

• Moon Phases Calendar, or moon phase calculator.
• USNOFS Image & Catalogue Archive Service (offline?)
• The sky today in Phoenix, AZ (planets; Sun and Moon)
  or in Vlissingen (Netherlands) (planets; Sun and Moon).
• The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)
  Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) Research Literature Database.

• Some nice pictures and text regarding our Milky Way and its neighbours (old).
• Cool page on Phases of the Moon including lunation movie showing libration (offline?)
• Your age or weight on other planets.

Astronomy publications & preprints:

• Astrophysics Data System (ADS) or Classic Form
• arXiv Astrophysics Preprints and Articles.
• Scientific journals:
  • ApJ, ApJL, ApJS, and AJ – The Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, ApJ Supplement Series, and The Astronomical Journal
    ▪ IOP publishing support and author instructions and manuscript preparation guidelines for AAS journals.
  • PASP – Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
    ▪ author instructions.
  • RNAAS – Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
    ▪ author instructions.
  • MNRAS – Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
    ▪ author instructions.
  • A&A (Journal and Letters) and A&A (Supplement Series) – Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • Nature.
  • Science (AAAS).
  • ScienceNews (Society for Science).
  • New Astronomy magazine.
  • The Astronomers Telegram.

Some pointers to non-astronomy sites:

• Sources of news (is there a world outside astronomy?):
  • PBS Newshour (US news).
  • BBC World News.
  • NOS teletekst (dutch news server).
  • Volkskrant (dutch newspaper).
  • NRC Handelsblad (another dutch newspaper).
  • PCZ (a local dutch newspaper).
• de telefoongids (KPN telecom, NL).
• MapQuest (online maps and driving directions).
• NS Reisinformatie (Dutch Railroad travel information).
• 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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