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| Paper: |
Aladin Lite v3 Release: Instructions for Embedding it into Your Own Applications! |
| Volume: |
538, ADASS XXXII |
| Page: |
97 |
| Authors: |
Matthieu Baumann; Thomas Boch; François-Xavier Pineau; Pierre Fernique; Mark Allen |
| DOI: |
10.26624/NJUP1146 |
| Abstract: |
Since its first version in 2013, Aladin Lite has gained significant traction
and usage as an HiPS viewer running in the browser. Designed to be easy to embed, it
is now used in more than fifty websites and portals in the professional astronomy community. Aladin Lite has been adopted as the sky visualisation component of popular
applications: ESASky, ESO Science Archive or ALMA Science Archive and has been
supported by the European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI
Research Infrastructures (ESCAPE) project as a priority for astronomy infrastructures.
We present a major overhaul of Aladin Lite that takes advantage of GPUs with WebGL
and that responds to requests of users, developers and integrators in a context where
browser-based applications and science analysis platforms are increasingly important.
While keeping the strengths of the original code, including its API, Aladin Lite v3 introduces several new features: support for multiple projections (Aitoff, Mollweide, Orthographic, Mercator), support for FITS HiPS tiles, and an improved rendering pipeline
and coordinates grids. |
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