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ASTR 5160: Astronomical Techniques II - Data Mining in Large Astronomical Surveys, Spring 2017

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Week1
My SVN Primer
Full SVN manual
Useful SVN commands
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My Python Primer
The comprehensive Python tutorial
numpy.loadtxt
The matplotlib tutorial
if __name__ == "__main__":
How to fit a line in Python (scroll down for examples)

Week2
fitsio github repository - how to write rec arrays
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Models of airmass
astropy.coordinates
astropy.time
Hints on calculating airmass for an observing location (see instructions [31-35])

Week3
astropy.coordinates
astropy.time
astropy and solar system bodies (Moon, Sun, planets)
Rotation Matrix
Galactic Coordinate System
Ecliptic Coordinate System
RA/Dec of the constellations
Current sky over Laramie
Current equatorial coordinates of the Sun
Current equatorial coordinates of the Moon
Current equatorial coordinates of the Planets
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Discovery of Interstellar Dust; Trumpler (1930)
Dust Maps; Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis (1998)
Equations for interstellar reddening by dust
github page for sfdmap implementation
SDSS Navigate Tool
numpy.meshgrid (see final example)
Matplotlib contour plots

Week4
Map Projections
Map Projections in matplotlib (see commands starting from [15])
The equal-area Hammer-Aitoff Projection
The equations behind the Hammer-Aitoff projection
Using astropy.wcs for coordinate projections
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The Hierarchical Triangular Mesh (HTM)
The HTM Technical Report
astropy and 2-D distances on the sphere
Matching a set of points to another set of points
The k-d tree

Week5
JPL's HEALPix Primer
Area of a Zone from Wolfram MathWorld
HEALPix Pixelisation related functions
Spherical Coordinates, θ and φ
numpy.histogram
numpy.where
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The Spherical Cap from Wolfram MathWorld

Week6
Mangle Documentation
pymangle examples

Week7
The Dark Energy Survey
The LSST
The Hierarchical Triangular Mesh (HTM)
The HTM Technical Report
SDSS SQL Tutorial
SDSS SQL Search Box
SDSS Schema Browser
SDSS Navigate Tool
Matplotlib scatter plots and marker size
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Virtual Observatory
The VLA FIRST Survey
SDSS sweep files
fitsio github repository - reading and writing FITS files

Week9
GALEX
Forced photometry of GALEX (Hogg et al. 2011)
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Flux
Vega Magnitudes and the UBV system - Johnson & Morgan (1953)
UBVRI Johnson-Bessell-Cousins filter system
The star α Lyrae (Vega)
Flux measurements of Vega - Oke & Schild (1970)
AB magnitudes - Oke (1974)
Absolute AB magnitude system - Oke & Gunn (1983)
AB magnitudes of Vega in ugriz, and converting from SDSS ugriz to UBVRI
Converting from AB magnitudes to Vega magnitudes
asinh magnitudes - Lupton et al. (1999)
SDSS description of asinh magnitudes
Standard Star PG1633+099A
SDSS DR8 Navigate Tool

Week10
Black Body Radiation
Kirchhoff's Laws of Spectroscopy
Quasar color cuts; Richards et al. (2002)
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SDSS Schema Browser
SDSS Navigate Tool

Week11
Early photometric redshift paper; Koo (1985)
Very early photometric redshift paper; Baum (1962)
Photometric redshifts of quasars; Richards et al. (2001)
Photometric redshifts of quasars; Weinstein et al. (2004)
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Extreme Deconvolution; Bovy et al. (2009)
Object Classification using Extreme Deconvolution; Bovy et al. (2011)
Photometric Redshifts using Extreme Deconvolution; Bovy et al. (2012)
Extreme Deconvolution github repository
AstroML
AstroML Extreme Deconvolution Example

Week12
Python's os.system command
The SDSS Stripe 82 Coadd; Annis et al. (2011)
The LSST Science Book: Chapter 8, The Transient and Variable Universe
Supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey
Pan-STARRS
The SDSS Stripe 82 SQL Catalog Archive Server
The SDSS Stripe 82 Standard Star Catalog
The SDSS Stripe 82 Variable Source Catalog
The SDSS DR9 Faint Quasar Catalog
The SDSS Supernova Survey
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Hyper-velocity stars; Brown et al. (2005)
Proper motion of galaxies; Brunthaler et al. (2005)

Week13
A useful reference for χ2 and Δχ2
Example matrix inversion with numpy

Week14
emcee (The MCMC Hammer)

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