HEALPix Alchemy: Fast All-Sky Geometry and Image Arithmetic in a Relational Database for Multimessenger Astronomy Brokers
Authors: Leo P. Singer, B. Parazin, Michael W. Coughlin, Joshua S. Bloom, Arien Crellin-Quick, Daniel A. Goldstein, Stéfan van der Walt
Leo P. Singer et al
2022 The Astronomical Journal163.
Provider: AAS Journals
Caption: Figure 2.
Illustration of the nested nature of HEALPix. Level 0 divides the unit sphere into 12 equal-area tiles. In each subsequent level, every tile is divided equally into four new tiles.