Link List

Journal articles

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• Constraining the Milky Way Potential with a Six-Dimensional Phase-Space Map of the GD-1 Stellar Stream
• Off the beaten path: Gaia reveals GD-1 stars outside of the main stream

Jupyter Notebook

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• How to Use Jupyter Notebook in 2020: A Beginner’s Tutorial
• matplotlib magic
• Try Jupyter quick start

SQL and ADQL

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• ADQL CONTAINS
• ADQL documentation
• An Astronomy Data Query Language cookbook to accompany Gaia Data Release 1
• Astroquery documentation
• Gaia ADQL example queries
• SQL (Wikipedia )
• SQL JOIN
• SQL operators
• SQL USING

GAIA

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• Crossmatch with external catalogues
• Crossmatches
• Gaia ADQL example queries
• GAIA data release 2 - Homepage
• GAIA data release documentation - Main tables
• GAIA Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Gaia’s Hertzsprung-russell diagram
• GAIA TAP+ REST service
• Information about GAIA Data Release 2
• Scanning Law

Python (General)

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• Strings
• Python String format() Method
• pandas.DataFrame
• NumPy indexing
• Context Managers
• Pandas input output tools (text, CSV, HDF5)

Astropy

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• AstroPy
• AstroPy Tables
• Accessing a Table
• Units and Quantities
• Gala
• Source code for gala.coordinates.gd1
• gala.coordinates.reflex_correct
• Matching catalogs

Matplotlib

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• Adding subplots
• Add text to axes with matplotlib.pyplot.text
• Annotating text with matplotlib
• Change the appearance of ticks, tick labels, and gridlines
• Create a subplot at a specific location inside a regular grid
• Customizing Matplotlib with style sheets and rcParams
• How to avoid overplotting with python
• matplotlib
• matplotlib magic for Jupyter Notebook
• matplotlib.pyplot.axvline
• matplotlib.pyplot.plot
• Scatter plots with matplotlib.pyplot.scatter
• Simple scatter plots
• Sample matplotlibrc file
• Style sheets reference
• Tight Layout guide
• Vertical lines with matplotlib.pyplot.vlines
• Writing mathematical expressions

File Formats

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• Comma-separated values (CSV) (Wikipedia)
• Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) (Wikipedia)
• Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) (Wikipedia)
• Multi-Extension FITS File Format
• Pandas input output tools (text, CSV, HDF5)

Astronomy background information

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• Betelgeuse
• Celestial coordinate system (Wikipeda)
• Color-Magnitude and Color-Color plots Overview
• International Celestial Reference System (ICRS)
• International Celestial Reference System (ICRS) (Wikipedia)
• International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) Table Access Protocol (TAP)
• Isochrone interpolation
• MESA Isochrones & Stellar Tracks
• Ordinary stars and HR diagrams
• Photometric system (Wikipedia)
• Stellar isochrone (Wikipedia)

Other background information

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• Figure Accessibility Guidelines
• Floating point arithmetic (Wikipedia)
• Indexing
• Markdown guide
• Minutes and seconds of Arc (Wikipedia)
• Reproducible research (Wikipedia)
• Transpose (Wikipedia)