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## C.1 Acknowledgements

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), grants ST/H008470/1, ST/I00176X/1, ST/J001414/1, ST/L002388/1, ST/M000907/1, ST/R000700/1 and ST/S001980/1 from the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the GAVO project (BMBF Bewilligungsnummer 05A08VHA), the European Space Agency, and the EU FP7-2013-Space project GENIUS. 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:

- JEL (GNU) for algebraic expression evaluation
- cds-healpix-java (CDS) for HEALPix manipulation
- iText (1T3XT BVBA) for PDF output
- JFreeSVG for SVG output
- EPSGraphics2D (Jibble) for encapsulated postscript output
- MOC (CDS) for Multi-Order Coverage map manipulation
- ADQL (CDS) for ADQL parsing in TAP query preparation
- nom.tam.fits (NASA) for parts of FITS I/O
- Skyview in a Jar (NASA) for sky axis drawing
- JLaTeXMath (Scilab) for LaTeX typesetting in plots
- 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. A list of some of them can be found in the TOPCAT user document, SUN/253.

If you use this software in published work, the following citation would be appreciated:

> 2006ASPC..351..666T: M. B. Taylor, "STILTS - A Package for Command-Line Processing of Tabular Data", in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XV, eds. C. Gabriel et al., ASP Conf. Ser. 351, p. 666 (2006)

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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@jiscmail.ac.uk