TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
Version 1.5
Starlink User Note 253
Mark Taylor
March 2005
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Starlink Project
Contents
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Apparent Table
2.1 Row Subsets
2.1.1 Defining Subsets
2.2 Row Order
2.3 Column Set
3 Table Formats
3.1 Supported Input Formats
3.1.1 FITS
3.1.2 VOTable
3.1.3 ASCII
3.1.4 Comma-Separated Values
3.1.5 SQL Database Queries
3.1.6 World Data Center
3.2 Supported Output Formats
3.2.1 FITS
3.2.2 VOTable
3.2.3 ASCII
3.2.4 Text
3.2.5 Comma-Separated Values
3.2.6 SQL Tables
3.2.7 HTML
3.2.8 LaTeX
3.2.9 Mirage Format
3.3 Custom I/O Formats
4 Joins and Matches
4.1 Concatenating Tables
4.2 Matching Rows Between Tables
4.3 Matching Rows Within a Table
4.4 Notes on Matching
5 Activation Actions
6 Algebraic Expression Syntax
6.1 Referencing Cell Values
6.2 Referencing Row Subset Flags
6.3 Null Values
6.4 Operators
6.5 Functions
6.5.1 General Functions
6.5.2 Activation Functions
6.5.3 Technical Note
6.6 Instance Methods
6.7 Examples
6.8 Adding User-Defined Functions
7 Invoking TOPCAT
7.1 TOPCAT Command-line Arguments
7.2 Java Options
7.2.1 Class Path
7.2.2 Memory Size
7.2.3 System properties
7.3 JDBC Configuration
7.4 Examples
8 Acknowledgements
9 Release Notes
9.1 Version History
A TOPCAT Windows
A.1 Common Window Features
A.1.1 Toolbar
A.1.2 Menus
A.1.3 JTables
A.2 Control Window
A.2.1 Table List
A.2.2 Current Table Properties panel
A.2.3 Toolbar Buttons
A.2.4 Menu Items
A.3 Table View Windows
A.3.1 Data Window
A.3.2 Parameters Window
A.3.3 Columns Window
A.3.4 Subsets Window
A.3.5 Statistics Window
A.3.6 Plot Window
A.3.6.1 Defining Subsets From Plots
A.4 Load Window
A.4.1 Filestore Browser
A.4.2 Hierarchy Browser
A.4.2.1 Navigation
A.4.2.2 Table Searches
A.4.3 SQL Query
A.4.4 Cone Search
A.4.5 Example Tables
A.5 Save Window
A.5.1 Enter Location
A.5.2 Filestore Browser
A.5.3 SQL Output Dialogue
A.6 Concatenation Window
A.7 Pair Match Window
A.7.1 Match Criteria
A.7.2 Column Selection Boxes
A.7.3 Output Rows Selector Box
A.8 Internal Match Window
A.8.1 Internal Match Action box
A.9 Activation Window
A.9.1 Viewer Applications
A.10 Help Window
A.11 New Parameter Window
A.12 Synthetic Column Window
A.13 Algebraic Subset Window
A.14 Available Functions Window
B Tablecopy