Setting up a remote Desktop on a Linux Machine (Do work on your speedy work desktop from your slow home -- or traveling -- laptop!)
Ian Crossfield's astrobetter post on parallelizing your python codes
Tutorial on reducing single-slit spectra.
Here is a cosmology calculator package I wrote for Python, cosmo.py, and notes on what the calculator does and how to use it.
If you find any bugs or errors, please email me so I can improve it.
Spectral wavelength calibration using night sky lines. My python/iraf routine for getting the sky spectrum from a 1-d extracted spectrum for wavelength calibration. And my line list for identification.
List of Reverberation-mapped AGN
9 from Peterson et al. (1998):
3C 120*
Akn 120
Mrk 79
Mrk 110
Mrk 335*
Mrk 509
Mrk 590
Mrk 704
Mrk 817*
Kaspi et al. (2000):
3C 390.3
F 9
IC 4329A
NGC 3227*
NGC 3783
NGC 4051*
NGC 4151
NGC 5548*
NGC 7469
PG 0026
PG 0052
PG 0804
PG 0844
PG 0953
PG 1211
PG 1226
PG 1229
PG 1307
PG 1351
PG 1411
PG 1426
PG 1613
PG 1617
PG 1700
PG 1704
PG 2130
Peterson et al. (2004):
Mrk 335 (PG 0003+199)
PG 0026+129
PG 0052+251
Fairall 9
Mrk 590 (NGC 863)
3C 120 (Mrk 1506)
Akn 120 (Mrk 1095)
Mrk 79
PG 0804+761
PG 0844+349
Mrk 110
PG 0953+414
NGC 3227
NGC 3516
NGC 3783
NGC 4051
NGC 4151
PG 1211+143
PG 1226+023 (3C 273)
PG 1229+204 (Mrk 771, Ton 1542)
NGC 459 (Mrk 1330)
PG 1307+085
IC 4329A
Mrk 279
PG 1351+640
PG 1411+442
NGC 5548
PG 1426+015 (Mrk 1383)
Mrk 817 (PG 1434+590)
PG 1613+658 (Mrk 876)
PG 1617+175 (Mrk 877)
PG 1700+518
PG 1704+608
3C 390.3
Mrk 509
PG 2130+099 (II Zw 136, Mrk 1513)
NGC 7469 (Mrk 1514)
Peterson et al. (2005):
NGC 4395
6 z~2.5 quasars from Kaspi et al. (2007):
S4 0636+68
S5 0836+71
SBS 1116+603
SBS 1233+594
SBS 1425+606
HS 1700+6416
6 from Denney et al. (2010):
Mrk 290
Mrk 817*
NGC 3227*
NGC 3516
NGC 4051*
NGC 5548*
9 from Bentz et al. (2010):
Mrk 142 (PG1022+519)
SBS 1116+583A
Arp 151 (Mrk 40)
Mrk 1310
Mrk 202
NGC 4253 (Mrk 766)
NGC 4748
NGC 5548*
NGC 6814
Stalin et al. (2011):
H 0507+164
Barth et al. (2011a):
Zw 229-015
Barth et al. (2011b):
Mrk 50
5 from Grier et al. (2012):
Mrk 335*
Mrk 1501
3c120*
Mrk 6
PG2130+099
*Duplicated