The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey

📁 This is an archived page from the original ALFALFA Survey website. Return to the ALFALFA Legacy Homepage.

Arecibo Observatory

Galaxy Surveys/Databases for UAT Workshop Observing

Follow these links to find and learn about various useful galaxy databases and websites. The more you know, the more you will understand. And, the more you will be able to contribute to the ALFALFA research effort on your own.

SDSS, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: an optical survey of the sky.
SDSS Navigator Tool
SDSS Data Release 10
Comparison of ALFALFA and SDSS Coverage

Skyview Finding Chart Tool

NED(NASA Extragalactic Database): searchable database of galaxy information

Exercise on galaxy surveys: Using SDSS, DSS2 and NED to find images/info of some interesting objects

Other archives:

ALFALFA data access
ALFALFA data files from the α40 paper
STScI MAST archive server
WHISP Homepage (Westerbork Survey of HI in ~300 Nearby Galaxies)
John Hibbard's HI Rogues' Gallery
THINGS home page
HIPASS data release (Parkes Multibeam Survey)
2MASS at IPAC

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Last modified: Thu Nov 7 10:15:28 EST 2013 by becky