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| Paper: |
Aladin: An Open Source All-Sky Browser |
| Volume: |
442, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XX (ADASSXX) |
| Page: |
683 |
| Authors: |
Boch, T.; Oberto, A.; Fernique, P.; Bonnarel, F. |
| Abstract: |
Aladin, developed over 10 years at CDS, has evolved from a simple sky atlas to become a rich and powerful portal able to access, visualize and manipulate images and catalog data. Aladin is widely used in the Virtual Observatory community and beyond.
Version 7 of Aladin is open source, and recent developments have been
focused on enabling all-sky browsing targeted towards real scientific
usage. Hierarchical, multi-resolution image surveys, density maps and
catalogs have been created for popular datasets (DSS and Sloan images; Simbad and 2MASS catalogs data, for instance). Users can also
easily build their own all-sky sphere from a set of local FITS images
and share it through a simple URL link. Aladin features can be extended by external plugins. An SED (Spectral Energy Distribution) plugin, combining fluxes extracted from calibrated images and fluxes in VizieR photometric catalogs has been developed and is available. |
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