Computing in Peyton Hall

The Department hosts several powerful computer clusters as well as a large number of workstations and access to large astronomical data bases such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The operating system used is Linux, and papers are written with Tex/LaTex. Two introductory tutorials are accessible at the links below, as are tutorials for various analysis software packages, such as SM and IDL.

Introduction to the Peyton Hall computer system

Tutorial in the Xwindow system

Much plotting, display and analysis is done with a package called SM. For the manuals see:

SM tutorial

For help with IDL, see

Michigan/Chicago IDL Libraries

NYU IDL Tutorial

If you are working on SDSS data, please read the paper by C. Stoughton et al. 2002, AJ, 123, 485

SDSS web site

Introduction to SDSS by Michael Strauss

SDSS data sweeps

NYU Value Added Galaxy Catalogue