Astronomy Related Links
- ADS Abstract Query Page
- ADS Journal Query Page
- arXiv
- arXiv sorter (very nifty tool for filtering astro-ph)
- Ned Wright's Cosmology Calculator
- NED
- HyperLeda
- SIMBAD
- List of Astronomy Meetings
- Astronomy Job Rumour Mill
- Art of Computational Science (A must-read if you are starting out with simulations)
- A fairly nice list of papers on mergers, subhalo mergers etc (J. Cohn, Berkeley)
- Chapter 2 of my thesis. Contains lots of introductory material about N-body tools that I used
Simulation Related Links
Initial Condition Generators
- NEMO Stellar Toolbox
- Ed Bertschinger's homepage (GRAFIC - cosmological)
- Ed Sirko's cosmological ICs site is GONE NOW. Linked to last snapshot on web.archive.org
- Project Horizon's IC Manipulation Tools
- Josh Barnes' software page (zeno)
- Roman Scoccimarro 2LPT IC generator
- Jay Jay Billings Galaxy Model (Starscream)
Simulation Software
- GADGET-2 (My bread and butter)
- ART (AMR code)
- VINE (Some improvements over GADGET, adaptive artificial viscosity)
- ENZO (AMR code, has built in IC generators)
- FLASH (AMR code, Fortran 90 - very modular)
- ZEUS (AMR code with trustworthy MHD)
- ATHENA (New AMR code with MHD)
- PM Code (Anatoly Klypin, NMSU)
- Bonsai (GPU N-body tree code)
- Sverre Aarseth's Nbody page (If you want to do globular clusters, you want this)
Structure (mostly halo) Finders
- Subfind (distributed with Enzo) make sure that BoxSize/Ncpu is at least a few Mpc
- AHF
- Rockstar (phase-space halo finder). Low-mass halos identification is not deterministic
- VOBOZ/ZOBOV (use Voronoi tessellations to find halos/voids)
- Origami (categorizes walls/filaments in phase-space; very related to voboz etc.)
- FOF (halo finder from the N-body shop; also contains SKID)
- HOP and ADAPTAHOP (from the Project Horizon webpage)
- Tinker's SO code
- Parallel SO halo finder
- ENBID (density computation in multi-dimensions)
- Lecture on Halo finders (Kravtsov)
Analysis & Visualisation (somewhat biased towards N-body+SPH tools)
- David Fanning's IDL Tips & Tricks
- IDL Group on Google
- New (Jan, 2013) IDL gallery page - contains examples and scripts
- IDL AstroLib (must-have)
- David Fanning's IDL programs (must-have)
- Craig Markwardt's IDL programs (very useful)
- JD Smith's (*the* histogram expert) IDL programs (look at hist_nd)
- IDL widget based Gadget snapshot reader (John Helly, Durham Group)
- SPLASH (Daniel Price, Monash) highly recommended
- IFRIT (Nick Gnedin, GPL'ed)
- SPLOTCH (Klaus Dolag)
- StarSplatter (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
- AstroMD
- PGPLOT (Tim Pearson)
- Tipsy (Univ. Washington N-body shop
- P3D (Andrey Kravtsov)
- SimAn (interactive tool)
- Making movies (on linux) from images.
- DEXTER -- for extracting data out of plots (Uni. of Heidelburg)
- GNUPLOT (not-so-common faq)
- GNUPLOT (really nifty tricks)
Big Simulations: Public Results and data
Other Public Astronomy Codes
- GEMINI (Evan Scannapieco's code for EPS Merger Trees)
- GALFORM (EPS Merger Tree code from the Durham group)
- SUNRISE Radiative Transfer code for use with Gadget, Gasoline
- RATRAN, another radiative transfer code
- Renan Barkana's code repository
- University of Washington N-Body shop
- AstroSim Codes (Lots of code, some already listed here)
- NVidia's GPU Programming Library - CUDA
- Generates mass accretion history for halos for a range of cosmologies (Web interface and fortran source)
- Astrophysics Source Code Library (Restarted recently - lots of codes added)