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   HTM Documentation



Brief description
Online Documentation
Online Documentation of the implementation
Papers

You may get the latest available code from the download page.


Online Information about HTM

Brief Introduction to HTM

The Hierarchical Triangular Mesh Construction

Geometrical Querying with HTM

Users guide to the software

Programmers quick guide to the software

Word Document Describing motivation for HTM3.0

Lookup HTMID or do simple intersect online


Papers

Further documentations and the basic ideas can be found in the following papers published on this subject:

ADASS Conference in Kona/Hawaii 1999

The Indexing of the SDSS Science Archive
P. Z. Kunszt, A. S. Szalay, I. Csabai, A. R. Thakar
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
in Proc ADASS IX, eds. N. Manset, C. Veillet, D. Crabtree, (ASP Conference series), 216, 141 (2000).

MPA/ESO/MPE Joint Astronomy Conference/Garching 2000

The Hierarchical Triangular Mesh
P. Z. Kunszt, A. S. Szalay, A. R. Thakar
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
in Mining the Sky: Proc. of the MPA/ESO/MPE workshop, Garching, A.J.Banday, S. Zaroubi, M. Bartelmann (ed.); (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg), 631-637 (2001).

Splitting the sky - HTM and HEALPix.
W.O'Mullane
Astrophysics Division, Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
A. J. Banday
MPI für Astrophysik, P.O. Box 1523, D-85740 Garching, Germany.
K. Gorski
European Southern Observatory (ESO), Karl Schwarzschild Strasse 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
P. Z. Kunszt, A. S. Szalay,
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218


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