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This page collects catalogs, archives, tools, and job resources that are especially useful in day-to-day compact-object and X-ray astronomy work.

Pulsar Catalogs

ATNF Pulsar Catalog for published rotation-powered pulsars, AXPs, and SGRs with coherent pulsations.
Pulsars in Globular Clusters for an up-to-date cluster pulsar compilation.
Galactic Millisecond Pulsars for field MSPs in the Milky Way.

Globular Cluster Catalogs

Catalog of Parameters for Milky Way Globular Clusters for classic distances, metallicities, luminosities, and dynamical parameters.
Fundamental Parameters of Galactic Globular Clusters for model-based cluster properties using Gaia DR3 and other inputs.

Data Archives

Chandra Data Archive and ChaSeR for Chandra data access.
XMM-Newton Science Archive for XMM mission data and related catalog searches.
MAST for optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared mission archives including Webb and Hubble.
CDS and VizieR for widely used astronomical data services.

Tools

CIAO, Sherpa, and ds9 for X-ray reduction, fitting, and visualization.
BXA and UltraNest for Bayesian X-ray analysis workflows.
Chandra Proposal Planning Toolkit for practical conversions and observation planning.
photutils and TOPCAT for photometry and tabular data exploration.

Article Search & Collection

NASA ADS for literature search, citation tracking, and alerts.
arXiv for recent astro-ph submissions.

Academic Jobs