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TOPCAT and Gaia

2018/11/23 by Mark Taylor, Taylor, Mark
Computer Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Spacecraft Design and Technology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.09480

openalex publication_date 2018/11/23 · openalex created_date 2024/04/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

TOPCAT, and its command line counterpart STILTS, are powerful tools for working with large source catalogues. ESA's Gaia mission, most recently with its second data release, is producing source catalogues of unprecedented quality for more than a billion sources. This paper presents some examples of how TOPCAT and STILTS can be used for analysis of Gaia data.

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