Some useful links
Weak gravitational lensing
Here are some links that give background about my main research area, weak gravitational lensing
- Overview: a nice overview of gravitational lensing, and loads of links at the bottom
- Technical summary: Weak Gravitational Lensing, M. Bartelmann and P. Schneider, Phys. Rept. 340 (2001) 291-472
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
Some pages related to the SDSS...
Literature references
Where to look for journal articles...
Some useful programs or programming-language related references
- The integrator
- CPAN (comprehensive perl archive network), lots of perl resources
- C language reference, including common functions in the usual .h files and all sorts of other useful things
- CTAN (comprehensive TeX archive network), lots of TeX/LaTeX-related resources
- Supermongo (useful plotting program)
- IDL tutorial
- IDL tools (for dealing with SDSS data)
- IDL tools (more general than the above, e.g. routines to match lists of galaxies, compute various cosmological quantities)
- GALAXEV (library of evolutionary stellar population synthesis models plus code that allows computation of observational spectra, colors in commonly-used filters, k+e-corrections, etc. using models from Bruzual and Charlot, 2003)
- Mangle (code to deal with angular masks of realistic surveys, useful for computing random catalogs, from Hamilton and Tegmark, 2003
- Mathworld (general mathematics resource)
- SDSSPix (pixelization scheme similar to Healpix for the CMB that uses the SDSS scan strategy to do the pixelization, with routines in C, IDL, and fortran)
- Probability distribution compendium: go to this site to download an absurdly useful file with roughly 60 probability distributions shown in fully parametrized form, with expressions for means, medians, modes, standard deviations, plots, CDF, quartiles, formulas to generate random deviates, and generally useful notes about the distribution
- Confidence intervals: this site contains a calculator that derives confidence limits from the binomial and poisson distributions at whatever level the user selects
Random fun things