IR Compendium: Background: IR Astro Basics Links
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If you're new to infrared astronomy, here are some suggested resources for getting up to speed. It's not a complete list by any means.
- Infrared Astronomy
- Information from the IPAC outreach
group. Also available in Spanish.
- Infrared timeline.
- History of IR astronomy, but particularly useful for links to all the
missions.
- Infrared astronomy gallery
- Images from many infrared surveys.
- Spitzer Field Guides
- Guides to topics related to IR astronomy and the Spitzer mission.
- IR data supported by IPAC (Infrared Processing
and Analysis Center) -- not a complete list!
- IRSA -- Infrared Science Archive
- 2MASS -- 2 Micron All-Sky Survey, JHKs survey of the sky
- ISO -- Infrared Space Observatory, a European mission, 1995-1998
- MSX -- Midcourse Space Experiment, a US Air Force mission, 1996-1997
- IRAS -- Infrared Astronomical Satellite, a joint US/UK/Netherlands mission, 1983
- Catalog of Infrared Observations
- Gezari, Pitts, and Schmitz, GSFC. Includes >396,000
observations published through 1998.
- SSC links page
- lists of our partners and related links of interest.
- Texbook: Handbook of Infrared Astronomy, by I. S. Glass
- 1999, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521633850
- Article: Detection Limits in the Infrared
- By Rieke, Young, and Gautier, Space Science Reviews, 74, pages 17-25
(1996)
- Linelists
- ISO list at IPAC
- ISO list at Garching (different than the IPAC ISO link above)
- NIST list
