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C.1 Acknowledgements

TOPCAT was initially (2003-2005) developed under the UK Starlink project (1980-2005, R.I.P.). 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 following that until June 2009, and from Euro-VO AIDA funding from then until November 2009. From December 2009 it is funded by an STFC grant.

Inspiration for many of TOPCAT's features has been taken from the following pre-existing tools:

Apart from the excellent Java 2 Standard Edition itself, the following external libraries provide important parts of TOPCAT's functionality:

Contributed code from the following people is gratefully acknowledged:

TOPCAT has benefitted from, and is largely shaped by, advice, comments and feedback from very many users, testers and developers. Some of the notable contributers are these:


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TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
Starlink User Note253
TOPCAT web page: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk