Resources
Astrophysics and Science
Introduction
Astronomy as a field by Polzin et al. 2023
The circumgalactic medium
The circumgalactic medium (annual review by Tumlinson, Peeples, & Werk)
Galaxies
Galaxy properties GUI by Leung et al.
Data and the way to do the science in the future
Surveys & datasets
SDSSS https://www.sdss.org/
The DESI Legacy Imaging Survey https://www.legacysurvey.org/
DESI https://www.desi.lbl.gov/ (A beautiful map of DESI by Claire Lamman https://www.desi.lbl.gov/2021/08/19/cosmic-cartography/)
unWISE http://unwise.me/
ULLYSES dataset https://archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/ullyses
SPHEREx https://spherex.caltech.edu/
WFIRST https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Euclid https://www.euclid-ec.org/
eROSITA https://www.mpe.mpg.de/eROSITA
Map of the Universe https://mapoftheuniverse.net/
NOIRLAB https://datalab.noirlab.edu/
SPARCL https://astrosparcl.datalab.noirlab.edu/sparc/ if you want to extract SDSS / DESI spectra
Some useful tools for research
My previous visualization explorations Interactive spectra
Website for checking the visibility of objects on the sky http://catserver.ing.iac.es/staralt/
Very nice talk by Prof. Tien-Hsien Chang about how to be a good scientist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIwHE8A7Amg&ab_channel=EPOASIAA
Online resources for Statistics, data analysis and machine learning
PhD survival
About how to give great talks
About writing
About being productive
Advice for doing science and looking for academic jobs
About education, self-development, viewpoints
https://president.yale.edu/president/speeches/intellectual-humility
https://president.jhu.edu/speeches/2016/05/18/2016-commencement-ceremony/
How-to series
how to read a paper https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200612566C/abstract
how to write a paper https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022NatAs...6.1021K/abstract
how to review a paper https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220514270N/abstract
how to ask questions at presentation https://zakamska.johnshopkins.edu/COMPUTING/questions_guide.html
how to prepare a presentation https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IuIcrkiYwgwWHaTYtkkGOHFpCAvrXMN7FTv7lI-ittQ/edit?usp=sharing
Others
早點開始專精 vs 多花點時間探索 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6lBtiQZSho&ab_channel=TED
SpaceBook for outreach https://lco.global/spacebook/
"We lead, we don't follow" - Anna Wintour
"Just like moons and like suns
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise." - Maya Angelou
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