Topcat astrophysics download

Some of these capabilities (limited scriptability
Large tables) are however provided by TOPCAT's sister package
STILTS .
Q1.5 Is TOPCAT just for astronomy? The large majority of TOPCAT's user base is currently in astronomy.

You can run TOPCAT using the starjava/bin/topcatscript(Unix) or by running java -jar starjava/lib/topcat/topcat.jar.
From other distributions TOPCAT is also packaged as part of some other larger softwaredistributions:
The Debian Astrobundle (see the FAQ) The Starlink Software Collection others?

TOPCAT is also packaged as part of some other larger softwaredistributions:
The Debian Astrobundle (see the FAQ) The Starlink Software Collection others? Note however these may not provide the most up to date version.
WebStart(deprecated) Note:the WebStart version of TOPCAT is being provisionallydeprecated from TOPCAT v4.8-8.

The most recent public release of TOPCAT is version 4

8-8, released 20 April 2023

For a detailed history of the changes in this and previous releases, see the Full Version History section of SUN/253

Further Information STILTS TOPCAT's sister package is STILTS, the STIL Tool Set

TOPCAT, the Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables, is an interactive desktop application for retrieval, analysis and manipulation of tabular data, offering a powerful and flexible range of interactive visualization options amongst other features

TOPCAT has been developed in the context of astronomy, but many of its features are equally applicable to other domains

The software, which is free and open source, is written in Java, and the underlying high-performance visualisation library is suitable for re-use in other applications

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