About
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HATS is an open source project and is free for all to use. It is released under the liberal terms of the
`BSD 3-Clause License <https://github.com/astronomy-commons/hats/blob/main/LICENSE>`_.

Citation
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If HATS has been significant in your research, and you would like to
acknowledge the project in your academic publication, we suggest citing 
the conference proceedings:

.. code-block:: bash

    @ARTICLE{2025arXiv250102103C,
        author        = {{Caplar}, Neven and {Beebe}, Wilson and {Branton}, Doug and {Campos}, Sandro and {Connolly}, Andrew and {DeLucchi}, Melissa and {Jones}, Derek and {Juric}, Mario and {Kubica}, Jeremy and {Malanchev}, Konstantin and {Mandelbaum}, Rachel and {McGuire}, Sean},
        title         = "{Using LSDB to enable large-scale catalog distribution, cross-matching, and analytics}",
        journal       = {arXiv e-prints},
        keywords      = {Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
        year          = 2025,
        month         = jan,
        eid           = {arXiv:2501.02103},
        pages         = {arXiv:2501.02103},
        doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2501.02103},
        archivePrefix = {arXiv},
        eprint        = {2501.02103},
        primaryClass  = {astro-ph.IM},
        adsurl        = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv250102103C},
        adsnote       = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
    }

If you used Rubin Data Preview 1 (DP1) with HATS, please also consider citing the following paper:

.. code-block:: bash

    @ARTICLE{2025arXiv250623955M,
        author        = {{Malanchev}, Konstantin and {DeLucchi}, Melissa and {Caplar}, Neven and {Malz}, Alex I. and {Beebe}, Wilson and {Branton}, Doug and {Campos}, Sandro and {Connolly}, Andrew and {Dai}, Mi and {Kubica}, Jeremy and {Lynn}, Olivia and {Mandelbaum}, Rachel and {McGuire}, Sean and {Aubourg}, Eric and {Blum}, Robert David and {Carlin}, Jeffrey L. and {Delgado}, Francisco and {Gangler}, Emmanuel and {Jannuzi}, Buell T. and {Jenness}, Tim and {Kang}, Yijung and {Kannawadi}, Arun and {Moniez}, Marc and {Plazas Malag{\'o}n}, Andr{\'e}s A. and {van Reeven}, Wouter and {Sanmartim}, David and {Urbach}, Elana K. and {Wood-Vasey}, W.~M.},
        title         = "{Variability-finding in Rubin Data Preview 1 with LSDB}",
        journal       = {arXiv e-prints},
        keywords      = {Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
        year          = 2025,
        month         = jun,
        eid           = {arXiv:2506.23955},
        pages         = {arXiv:2506.23955},
        doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2506.23955},
        archivePrefix = {arXiv},
        eprint        = {2506.23955},
        primaryClass  = {astro-ph.IM},
        adsurl        = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXiv250623955M},
        adsnote       = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
    }

To cite the HATS format (and not this software package in particular), we suggest the following:

.. code-block:: bash

    @misc{ivoa:NOTE:2025:HATS,
        author = {Caplar,Neven and DeLucchi, Melissa and  Jurić, Mario and Beebe,Wilson and Branton, Doug and  Campos,Sandro and Jones,  Derek  and  Malanchev,Konstantin and  McGuire,  Sean and  Lynn, Olivia and  Pineau, François-Xavier and  Raen,  Troy},
        title = {{HATS: A Standard for the Hierarchical Adaptive Tiling Scheme in the Virtual Observatory}},
        howpublished = {IVOA Note, Version 1.0},
        year = {2025},
        note = {Available at \url{https://www.ivoa.net/documents/Notes/HATS/}}
    }

Acknowledgements
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This project is supported by Schmidt Sciences.

This project is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
under Grant No. AST-2003196.

This project acknowledges support from the DIRAC Institute in the Department of 
Astronomy at the University of Washington. The DIRAC Institute is supported 
through generous gifts from the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and 
Sciences, and the Washington Research Foundation.