Meetings and links

We meet each Wednesday to discuss on-going research projects and recent papers.

Ground-based Observatories

  • ESO - The European Southern Observatory
  • ING - The Isaac Newton Group in La Palma
  • Calar Alto - The German-Spanish Astronomical Center in Almeria
  • LBT - The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory
  • NOAO - National Optical Astronomy Observatory (U.S. based, limited access to Europeans)

Space Agencies and missions

  • ESA - European Space Agency
  • NASA - National Aeronautic Space Agency
  • SPITZER - The Space Infrared Telescope
  • XMM-Newton - X-Ray Observatory
  • Chandra - X-Ray Observatory
  • COROT - Astroseismology, astrometry mission
  • Herschel - The Far Infrared and Submillimetre Telescope, to be launched in 2008
  • JWST - The James Webb Space Telescope, to be launched in 2013
  • GAIA - ESA's space astrometry mission, to be launched in 2011

Surveys and Catalogues

  • SIMBAD - Astronomical Database
  • VizieR - Query catalogues by identifier or coordinates
  • 2MASS - The Two Micron All Sky Survey
  • SDSS - Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • SSS - SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys

Conferences and Publications

European Networks

  • CONSTELLATION - European Commission Marie Curie Research Training Network on the origin of stellar masses.
  • JETSET - European Research and Training Network on JET Simulations, Experiments and Theories
  • ARENA - Antarctic Research, a European Network for Astrophysics

Projects

Last modified: April 12th, 2007 by G. Meeus and the SF division.