Links

Automated X-ray Surveys

• The Tartarus Database - An ASCA AGN survey
• CHAMP - Chandra serendipitous source survey
• XMM-Newton SSC - XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre

X-ray Data Analysis Packages

• HEADAS General-purpose and mission-specific X-ray software
• CIAO Chandra software
• XMMSAS XMM-Newton software (GSFC mirror)

Other Catalogs/Surveys/Tools

• HEASARC
• VizieR
• 2mass
• NED
• ADS
• SkyView

Programming

• Python
• Numerical Python (extension for Python)
• AstroPy
• SciPy(scientific and mathematical functions for Python)
• PyFITS (FITS extension for Python)
• Matplotlib, an advanced plotting package for Python
• Biggles, a simple python plotting package.
• Python Web Services
• Statistics modules for Python
• wxWindows, a GUI toolkit for Unix, Windows, and MacOS. Also well-supported as a Python extension.
• wxPython, wxWindows embedded in Python.
• An article on wxPython.
• gd - A GIF creation library
• A page I stumbled upon concerning object segregation in images.
• Python modules
• Numerical Recipes
• Scientific Python
• Travis Oliphant's Python packages
• FFTW (very fast FFT library)
• SWIG (tool for generating C/C++ extensions for scripting languages)
• Using SWIG Linux Gazzette article on swig
• Typemaps for SWIG
• TclXML
• Stow, a package management tool (maybe easier for non-RedHat systems).

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