Tahir's Home Page

Contact Info

Official Bio Page
Curriculum Vitae
Refereed Publications

Chandra image of X-Ray Jet From Centaurus A
X-Ray Jet From Centaurus A
Credit: X-Ray image: NASA/ CXC/ SAO
Optical image: AURA/ NOAO/ NSF

Local Stuff

Andy Ptak's Home Page
NASA/GSFC EUD Home Page
EUD X-Ray Branch Home Page
Team GnT Home Page
HEASARC Home Page
GSFC Home Page

Useful Sites/X-ray Groups

NASA Home Page
NASA JPL Home Page
Leicester University, UK
ISAS, Japan
IoA, Cambrdige, UK
George Washington University/ Physics Department Astr 191 course
Prince George's Community College
UMBC
JHU Physics & Astronomy Dept. Travel Rules Calenders Holidays Registrar
JHU/LHEA Coop (CARA)
AGN Watch

Seminar Schedules

LHEA Tuesday Seminars
JHU/CAS Seminars
JHU physics colloquium
STScI colloquium
GSFC Visitor Center

Journal Stuff

ADS Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstract Service
The Astrophysical Journal
ApJ Account
AAS
XXX E-Print Archive
AGN Newsletter
Redshift Journal
Astronomy & Astrophysics Abstracts
AASTeX
NASA Research Opportunities

Boring But Useful

NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)
Simbad
Statistics
Roget's Thesaurus
Latex Help
Better Latex Help
VI Help
Color Printing at JHU

GOFs

ASCA Guest Observer Facility
ASTRO-E Guest Observer Facility
Chandra Science Center
XMM GOF
XMM scheduled observations
XMM timeline
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Science Support Center
ROSAT Guest Observer Facility
XTE Guest Observer Facility
BeppoSAX Science Center IAS home page
Suzaku SWG
Intgeral Integral Newsletter

Educational Resources

Imagine the Universe
COBE
Hubble Images and Press Releases
NSSDC Photo gallery
Messier Gallery
Interactive NGC Image Catalog
Ned Wright's Cosmology Updates
HyperPhysics Tutorial Cards
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Astronomical Image Library
NASA Education Resources
LPI home page
HEASARC SEU Image Catalog
COBE resources
Explorations (101 Text Book etc.)
UAH
Astr 101

News

NASA Home Page
Physics News Updates (AIP)
Meeting Web Pages
JHU/LHEA workshop
ADS proceedings service

Web Stuff

Alta Vista
Yahoo
Ask Jeeves
Icon Bazaar
Hotmail
SSH from Internet [Internet Explorer]
SSH from Internet [Netscape]

Computing

Solaris Info

Atomic Physics

Plasmas in the ASCA Bandpass
Chandra Emission-Line Project
Chandra High-Energy Grating
NIST reference data
Opacity Project
CLOUDY
Cloudy Atomic Database
Verner line list
XSTAR
WebElements
X-ray WWW server (U Sweden)
Mc Master
Periodic Table and Useful Links
Durham HEP Database
Line Energies (PSU table from LHEA)
Zombeck
X-ray Data Booklet
PROFIT

General Physics

Data Analysis

Spectral Binning Caveats
Suzaku Analysis - Useful Information
ASCA re-calibration steps [Apr 2005]
3C 273 ASCA/RXTE/SAX simultaneous observations
New 3C 273 Observation
Low-Energy SIS problem
SIS PI problem
OLD versus CURRENT ASCA Calibration Evaluation
Ken's Cal Report
KCG's Cal Page
HETG MIT CAL PAGE
OLD CIAO 2.1.3 HETG analysis
XMM calibration page
XMM User Guide
XMM ABC Guide
XMM SAS task index
XMM simulator docs (SciSim)
XMM Analysis Notes
XMM calibration updates table
XRT SWG
ASCA IDL Analysis System
TARTARUS Database
Jonathan's AGN table
Fe-K
SkyView
Chandra Data Archive [Chaser]
Keith Arnaud's Home Page
Nerdy Hot Pix
LTSA home
LTSA submit
Ian George's HETG notes
PSU ACIS recipes
Andy Ptak's XAssist Project
XAssist USER
Notes on Converting MJD to Date

Chandra local setup
Install ftools 5.2
XSPEC Local Models
[A]HETG/LETG Reprocessing
[B]Make HETG FITS Spectra
[C]Make HETG Lightcurves and Cross-Dispersion Profiles
[D]Make HETG Rest-Frame ASCII Spectra
[E]Make Effective Area Plots
[F]Fitting & Final Checkout
Beth's Instructions [A-F]
Beth's Shorthand [A-F]
Master Cat Instructions (Katie)

Financial

Fool.com - IRAs etc

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