Orateur
Mark Taylor
(University of Bristol)
Description
TOPCAT is a VO-friendly desktop application for manipulating tables in astronomy. This tutorial will introduce TOPCAT by working with data from Gaia DR3. It will give you hands-on experience of using the tool to query remote data services via VO protocols, set up and explore interactive plots, manage row selections and perform crossmatches to analyse catalogue data in detail. There will also be an opportunity to perform similar analysis programmatically using STILTS, TOPCAT's command-line counterpart.