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The initial development of STILTS was done under the UK's
Starlink project (1980-2005, R.I.P.),
without which it would not have been written.
From July 2005 until June 2006, it was supported
by grant PP/D002486/1 from the UK's
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.
Maintenance and development has been funded from July 2006 until
December 2007 by the
European VOTech project
within the UK's AstroGrid,
and directly from AstroGrid funding beyond that.
Apart from the excellent Java 2 Standard Edition itself,
the following external libraries provide important parts of STILTS's
functionality:
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JEL
(GNU) for algebraic expression evaluation
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PixTools
(Fermilab EAG) for HEALPix-based celestial sphere row matching
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EPSGraphics2D
(Jibble) for encapsulated postscript output
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IVOARegistry (NVO) for IVOA registry access
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GifEncoder
(Acme) for GIF output
-
HTM
(Sloan Digital Sky Survey) for HTM-based celestial sphere row matching
(now deprecated within STILTS)
Thanks in particular to Nickolai Kouropatkine and Chris Stoughton
of Fermilab for writing the PixTools specially for use in STIL.
Many people have contributed ideas and advice to the development of
STILTS and its related products. I can't list all of them here,
but my thanks are especially due to the following:
- Malcolm Currie (Starlink, RAL)
- Clive Davenhall (Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
- Peter Draper (Starlink, Durham)
- David Giaretta (Starlink, RAL)
- Clive Page (AstroGrid, Leicester)
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STILTS - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
Starlink User Note256
STILTS web page:
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/
Author email:
m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk