Credits

JS9 was created and maintained through v3.9 by Eric Mandel and Alexey Vikhlinin at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and is maintained from v3.10 by {{ site.maintainer.name }} ({{ site.maintainer.org }}). This project gratefully builds on their work.

Technologies

JS9 is powered by:

• HTML5 for image display
• jQuery for DOM programming
• Emscripten for C-to-WebAssembly
• Fabric.js for 2D graphics
• Dynamic Drive for light windows
• flot for plotting
• SWIS for jQuery.contextMenu
• arrive.js for MutationObserver
• spin.js for spinner support
• Marc J. Schmidt for CSS element queries
• HEASARC for CFITSIO
• IPAC for Montage
• SAO/TDC for the WCS library
• Mark Calabretta for HEALPix

With thanks to

Important suggestions (and sometimes code) came from:

• Doug Burke, CfA (research-level testing)
• Brian Cherinka, JHU (multi-extension FITS, data cubes)
• Joseph DePasquale, STScI (image blending techniques)
• Karl Glazebrook, Swinburne (iPad support)
• Kenny Glotfelty, CfA (toolbar and toolbar icons)
• Matias Carrasco Kind, NCSA (Jupyter support)
• Kathy Lestition, CfA (EPO)
• Briehan Lombaard, SAAO (telescope control)
• John Roll, Facebook (design philosophy, analysis plugins)
• Maria Henar Sarmiento, ESA (research-level testing)
• Pat Slane, CfA (needs of research vs. education)
• Oleg Smirnov, Rhodes University (Jupyter, large file support)
• The Science Education Department, CfA (EPO)
• Marwan Ali Albahar, Umm Al-Qura University (security issues)

Funding

The original development of JS9 was funded by the Smithsonian Institution, the Chandra X-ray Science Center (NAS8-03060), and NASA's Universe of Learning (STScI-509913).