About
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HATS and HATS import 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/lsdb/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}
    }


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.