6. STILTS

STILTS is a set of command-line tools based on STIL and forms the command-line counterpart of TOPCAT. With STILTS tabular data such as astronomical catalogs can be processed. STILTS supports several formats as FITS, VOTable, CDF, GBIN, CSV and ASCII. Built in function are:

  • crossmatching
  • plotting
  • column calculation and rearrangement
  • data and metadata manipulation and display
  • statistical and histogramm calculation
  • access to remote data services including Virtual Observatory


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