Resources

Galaxies

Dynamics and Astrophysics of Galaxies

Jo Bovy's interactive online graduate textbook on galaxy dynamics, formation, and evolution.

Computation

Computational Astrophysics

Michael Zingale's numerical astrophysics notes with Python notebooks and practical methods.

Course book

Astro 330: Scientific Computing in Astrophysics

Python lectures, labs, data access, packaging, MCMC, pandas, and astronomy pipeline projects.

PDF notes

Frank van den Bosch: Astrophysics Lecture Notes

Seven downloadable Yale course PDFs covering cosmology, physical processes, astrophysical flows, dynamics, hydrodynamics, and galaxy formation.

Topic map

Galaxy Formation and the Intergalactic Medium

Research index from UT Austin covering reionization, IGM, structure formation, and dark matter variants.

Tutorials

Learn Astropy

Guides and notebooks for Python astronomy tasks across Astropy and the wider astro ecosystem.

Core library

Astropy

Coordinates, units, tables, FITS, time, cosmology, and core astronomy Python infrastructure.

Data access

Astroquery

Query astronomical archives and databases directly from Python notebooks and scripts.

Photometry

Photutils

Source detection, aperture photometry, PSF photometry, and segmentation workflows.

Simulation

yt

Analysis and visualization for volumetric, grid, particle, and simulation data.

N-body

pynbody

N-body and hydrodynamical simulation analysis for Gadget, AREPO, RAMSES, and more.

Dynamics

gala

Galactic and gravitational dynamics in Python, including potentials and orbit integration.

Dynamics

galpy

Galactic dynamics package for orbits, potentials, distribution functions, and action-angle tools.

Cosmology

Colossus

Cosmology, large-scale structure, dark matter halo profiles, and mass-concentration calculations.

Observations

MAST

Hubble, Webb, TESS, Kepler, and other UV, optical, and near-infrared mission data.

Survey

SDSS DR18

Sloan imaging, spectroscopy, catalogues, data access, and survey documentation.

Catalogue

Gaia Archive

Astrometry, photometry, spectra, and ADQL queries for stellar and Galactic work.

Extragalactic

NED

Cross-identifications, redshifts, photometry, and literature links for extragalactic objects.

Objects

SIMBAD

Object identifiers, coordinates, measurements, references, and quick object checks.

Catalogues

VizieR

Published astronomical catalogues with table search, TAP access, and cross-survey discovery.

Infrared

IRSA

Infrared and submillimeter archives, images, catalogues, and all-sky survey tools.

High energy

HEASARC

EUV, X-ray, gamma-ray, and CMB mission data products and analysis resources.

Simulation

IllustrisTNG

Snapshots, group catalogues, merger trees, supplementary data, and API access.

Simulation

EAGLE Database

Galaxy properties, merger histories, images, particle data, and SQL-style exploration.

Simulation ML

CAMELS

Cosmological simulations designed for inference, statistics, and machine learning work.

CMB

Planck Legacy Archive

Planck maps, catalogues, timelines, rings, cosmology products, and mission data.

ML

scikit-learn

Classical machine learning, preprocessing, model selection, pipelines, and metrics.

Deep learning

PyTorch

Deep learning framework for research prototyping, GPU training, and flexible models.

Reproducible

DVC

Version datasets, models, metrics, and pipelines alongside Git repositories.

Vision

OpenCV

Computer vision library with image processing, geometry, video, and model inference tools.

3D data

Open3D

3D data processing for point clouds, meshes, visualization, and geometry workflows.

Web 3D

three.js

JavaScript library for interactive browser-based 3D scenes with WebGL and WebGPU.