Internet Services for Professional Astronomy
Abstract
A (subjective) overview of Internet resources relevant to professional astronomers is given. Special emphasis is put on databases of astronomical objects and servers providing general information, e.g. on astronomical catalogues, finding charts from sky surveys, bibliographies, directories, browsers through multi-wavelength observational archives, etc. Archives of specific observational data will be discussed in more detail in other chapters of this book, dealing with the corresponding part of the electromagnetic spectrum. About 200 different links are mentioned, and every attempt was made to make this report as up-to-date as possible. As the field is rapidly growing with improved network technology, it will be just a snapshot of the present situation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9807167,
title = {Internet Services for Professional Astronomy},
author = {Heinz Andernach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9807167},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
to appear in Proc. 9th Canary Islands Winter School on "Astrophysics with Large Databases in the Internet Age", eds. M. Kidger, I. Perez-Fournon, & F. Sanchez, 28 pages, 3 figures and style files included; text (not figures) revised with many corrections and some updates on July 30, 1998