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The initial development of STILTS was done under the UK's
Starlink project (1980-2005, R.I.P.).
Since then it has been supported by
grant PP/D002486/1 from the
UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council,
the VOTech project (from EU FP6),
the AstroGrid project
(from PPARC/STFC),
the AIDA project (from EU FP7),
grant ST/H008470/1 from the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council
(STFC),
and the GAVO project
(BMBF Bewilligungsnummer 05A08VHA),
and grant ST/I00176X/1 from STFC.
All of this support is gratefully acknowledged.
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
-
PixTools
(Fermilab EAG) for HEALPix-based celestial sphere row matching
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iText
(1T3XT BVBA) for PDF output
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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
Mailing list:
topcat-user@bristol.ac.uk