Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 17-330
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Website Records, 2016
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of two websites maintained by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) as they existed on October 28, 2016. SAO, with the Harvard College Observatory, jointly administers the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
The International CHASC Astro-Statistics Collaboration website is a listing of resources of specific interest to astronomers regarding statistics.
The 400d Cluster Survey website provides information about an X-ray survey for galaxy clusters using archival ROSAT observations as well as calibrations and projects using the survey. The website also includes catalog data which may be incomplete in this accession. It appears that the website was last updated in approximately 2012.
Materials are in electronic format.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Harvard College Observatory
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- International CHASC Astro-Statistics Collaboration (Project)
- 400d Cluster Survey (Project)
- ROSAT (Artificial satellite)
Subject
- Museums -- Public relations
- Web sites
- Astronomical observatories
- Astrophysics
- Research
- Statistical astronomy
- Galaxies -- Clusters
- X-ray astronomy
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 17-330, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Website Records