A picture may be worth a thousand words,
but a spectrum is worth a thousand pictures

Basic data for quantitative spectroscopy

	NIST Physical Reference Data,
	NIST electron impact excitation rates and cross sections
	NIST Chemistry WebBook
	NIST Photon Cross Section Database
	The Redbook maintained at Oak Ridge
	The Controlled Fusion Atomic Data Center at Oak Ridge
	Aladdin, the Oak Ridge fusion data base
	Kaye&Laby Tables of Physical & Chemical Constants
	The Johansson/Lund/IAU 14 list of databases
	The Auburn-Rollins-Strathclyde data collections at Oak Ridge
	The CfA set of links to data bases.

	The Collaborative Computational Projects (CCP) is a collection of numerical codes based in the UK.
	CCP7 maintains a list of quantitative spectroscopy resources, with a links at STScI.

Bob Kurucz's web page with links to databases and codes, a searchable version of his data

	ATOMDB at the Chandra X-Ray Center
	Dima Verner's Atomic Data for Astrophysics home page.
	The PlasmaGate guide to atomic and plasma data bases
	Ming Feng Gu's ftp site for his FAC atomic physics package
	Vanderbilt University (Charlotte Fischer et al.) MCHF/MCDHF Collection
	The Cowan code for calculation of HF radiative rates

	The Chianti project at NRL.
	TOPbase, the Opacity Project data base.
	Nigel Badnell's pages with radiative and dielectronic recombination rate coefficients
	VALD - The Vienna Atomic Line Database
	X-ray properties of elements based on the McMaster et al. compilation

	LAMDA - The Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database
	The Basecol ro-vibrational collisional database at Meudon
	The Astrochymist web site
	The UMIST Database for Astrochemistry 1999
	The MIS ISM modeling codes and data base

Al Wootten's page of molecular references

	HITRAN molecular data basechemistry
	World-wide molecular resources
	Tom Abel's primordial chemistry page
	LAMDA, the Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database
	The Ames Astrochemistry Lab, and the Jena page of optical constants.

The Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy

	The ORNL/UGA Charge Transfer Database
	The JPL Molecular Spectroscopy Catalog

The Jena Database of Optical Constants for Cosmic Dust

	The Cloudy home page
	Christophe Morisset has posted a description of his Cloudy 3D tools on astro-ph. His web site is here.
	The PlasmaGate guide to free software for atomic and plasma physics
	Tim Kallman's code XSTAR
	Ralph Sutherland's Mappings III code
	The Raymond-Smith code is widely used to simulate conditions in and emission from shocks.
	The spex software package is also used to understand X-Ray emission.
	Keith Arnaud's XSPEC package is used in the quantitative analysis of X-Ray spectroscopy.
	Pandora, by Eugene H. Avrett and Rudolf Loeser , models the solar chromosphere.

	Peter Hauschildt's home page, with results from his Phoenix code.
	Tlusty, the stellar atmosphere code by Hubeny & Lanz.
	Thomas Rauch's home page, with grids of results for hot stellar atmospheres from the Tübingen NLTE Model Atmosphere Package
	Daniel Schaerer's page, with results from the CoStar stellar atmosphere work.
	A. Pauldrach's WM-Basic project, both a code and grid of model atmospheres.

	Mats Carlsonn's multi code does many-level NLTE model atoms.
	Electronic forms of the Storey & Hummer hydrogenic emission results (MNRAS 272, 41)
	The He-like iso-electronic sequence, from Bautista & Kallman (2000, ApJ, 544, 581)
	Kirk Korista's Quasar Emission Line Grids

The Planetary Nebula Emission Line Catalog at STScI

	John Mathis 75th birthday
	ISO science legacy - on-line version of a springer book
	The International Astronomy Meetings List, from CFHT
	The May 1998 La Serena meeting on Luminosity Indicators in Quasars.
	A summary of the X-Ray spectroscopy workshop held at the AAS HEAD Meeting, Napa Valley, CA, Nov. 5, 1994
	The CADC list of all astronomy meetings.
	The International AGN Watch home page.
	The Forum for Amateur AstroSpectroscopy

	Rob Rutten's set of Stellar Atmosphere notes
	The NIST review of atomic nomenclature, and the NIST AMOPH chapter on this.
	The X-Ray Data Booklet from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	Stellar Atmospheres notes by J.B. Tatum
	Astrophysical Radiation Processes by Eberhard Karls
	Radiative Transfer & Stellar Atmospheres by Rolf Kudritzki & Fabio Bresolin

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