Freebies
Here you’ll find astronomy-related resources I’ve created that you are welcome to download and use.
If any of these prove helpful, please consider crediting.
Astronomy Schools
One of the best ways to gain experience as a PhD student is to participate in schools and workshops related to the specific skills you wish to develop. This slide deck is meant to provide some guidelines for applying to these opportunities.
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ArXiv Scraper
Reading literature is vital, but staying up to date is not always easy - especially while balancing work and deadlines. This Python script scours the last 5 mailings from astro-ph for papers that contain specific keywords in their title, providing quick access to their abstracts and the option to load them in a new window. Before running, just open it in any editor to add the desired keywords (the default one is "exoplanet").
Download scriptConvert .ipynb to .py
Jupyter Notebook is powerful and user-friendly, but sharing code with those who prefer running .py scripts can be tricky (the nbconvert command retains some of the Jupyter cell markers, as does File -> Save and Export Notebook As…->Executable Script). Here is an easy way to produce clean Python scripts out of notebooks - in 3 quick steps that you will find within the ReadMe.
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