On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Norman Gray wrote:
>
>>> (before we get carried away with FITS, remember GAIA uses TSTs
>>> internally)
>>
>> TSTs? Que?
>
> Tab Separated Tables. They are bit deficient in the meta-data sense, but
> simple to handle.
>
But TSTs do handle UCDs and units:
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/asu-acl?-source=II/246&-c.ra=0&-c.dec=0&-c.rm=0/10&-out.max=50
I assume CDS added some of this to help aladin by giving it access to many
services that have not been vo-ified yet.
Does GAIA (aka skycat) drop this information on the floor?
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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