TOPCAT (software)

TOPCAT
	Screenshots of TOPCAT
Original author(s)	Mark Taylor
Initial release	4 June 2003
Stable release	4.7-2 / 24 August 2020
Written in	Java
Included with	Debian Astro
Type	Graph plotting software
License	GPL / LGPL
Website	www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/
As of	24 August 2020

TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data.^[2] Although a general purpose tool capable of handling large and sparse datasets with correlation functionality its specialist application area is astronomy and it was initially designed to support virtual observatories.^[3] It is able to handle several digital file formats including FITS which is in common use in astronomy.^[3] The Acronym TOPCAT derives from Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables.^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c Cite error: The named reference OW-VerHist was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Taylor (2017), p. 18.
^ ^a ^b Rousseau & Érard (2019), p. 1.
^ Pössel (2020), p. 26.

[OW-VerHist-1] Cite error: The named reference OW-VerHist was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[FOOTNOTETaylor201718-2] Taylor (2017), p. 18.

[FOOTNOTERousseauÉrard20191-3] Rousseau & Érard (2019), p. 1.

[FOOTNOTEPössel202026-4] Pössel (2020), p. 26.

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