CDS cross-match service released

[Thomas Boch]

Dear all,

The CDS has released last week its cross-match service. This new tool 
allows one to cross-identify sources coming from two tables. Available 
tables include 9000+ VizieR tables with positions, SIMBAD data and 
user-uploaded (VO)tables.

Cross-match is performed either on the basis of the positions, or taking 
into account the error ellipses of the sources.
Focus has been put on the performances of large-scale cross-match. For 
instance, it takes less than 30 seconds to cross-match a list of 50,000 
positions with the NOMAD catalogue.

Connect to http://cdsxmatch.u-strasbg.fr to use this service.
The associated documentation is available at 
http://cdsxmatch.u-strasbg.fr/xmatch/doc/

Cheers,

Thomas