Credit: Sara Motta/ThunderKAT/MeerLICHT/CARTA (MeerKAT data from Motta et al. 2025)
A new release of CARTA is out: this is the stable v5.0 release, following the related beta release in February 2025. Like the beta release, this contains the new major features: channel map view and an RGB colour blender. There have been many bug fixes and enhancements, as well as substantial code refactoring since the previous release. For more details please see the release note:
CARTA is a major visualisation tool used by thousands of astronomers worldwide, architected for use with big data sets. In its current form, CARTA has been under development since the start of 2018 by a consortium of institutions: The Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), the American National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), the University of Alberta, the Australian SKA Regional Centre (AusSRC) and IDIA.
This new version 5.0 is available from ilifu, or to obtain packages visit:
Congratulations to the team for this milestone!