Digital Universe Atlas

Digital Universe Guide

• Contents
• Overview
  • What is the DU?
  • Getting Help
  • Digital Universe License
  • Acknowledgments
• Getting Started
  • Installing
  • Launching the Milky Way
  • Learning to Fly Partiview
  • Partiview's User Interface
  • Digital Universe Files
• Milky Way Atlas
  • Overview
  • Tutorial
  • Data Groups
  • Optimizing
• Extragalactic Atlas
  • Overview & Primer
  • Tutorial
  • Data Groups
  • Optimizing
• Appendix
  • Light-Travel Time
  • Parallax and Distance
  • Redshift and Distance
  • Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Constants and Units
• Index

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Contents

• List of Tables
• Overview
  • What is the Digital Universe?
  • Getting Help
  • Digital Universe License
  • Acknowledgments
  
  
• Getting Started
  • Installing the Digital Universe
  • Launching the Milky Way Atlas
  • Learning to Fly Partiview
  • Partiview's User Interface
  • Digital Universe Files
  
  
• The Milky Way Atlas
  • Milky Way Atlas Overview
  • Milky Way Atlas Tutorial
    • The View from Earth
    • The Solar Neighborhood
    • The Stellar Catalog
    • Building the Galaxy
    • The Galactic Outskirts
  • Milky Way Data Groups
    • 3-D Catalogs
    • All-Sky Surveys
    • Models, Simulations, and Images
    • Coordinate Grids
  • Optimizing the Milky Way Atlas
  
  
• The Extragalactic Atlas
  • Extragalactic Atlas Overview
    • Galaxies
    • Quasi-Stellar Objects (Quasars)
    • The Cosmic Microwave Background
    • Cosmological Structure Formation
    • The Distance Scale
  • Extragalactic Atlas Tutorial
    • The Galactic Neighborhood
    • The Local Universe
    • Local Large-Scale Structure
    • Tully's Nearby Galaxies
    • The 2MASS Galaxies
    • Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters
    • Galaxy Surveys
    • Quasar Surveys
    • Edge of the Observable Universe
  • Extragalactic Data Groups
    • 3-D Catalogs
    • All-Sky Surveys
    • Models, Simulations, and Images
    • Coordinate Grids
  • Optimizing the Extragalactic Atlas
  
  
• Appendix: Light-Travel Time and Distance
• Appendix: Parallax and Distance
• Appendix: Redshift and Distance
• Appendix: Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Appendix: Constants and Units
• Index

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