SAMP Software

This page lists released and experimental software which is known to use the SAMP protocol. Please amend the list if you have more up to date information.

SAMP Infrastructure

Perl SAMP

Perl hub implementation and client toolkit (AlasdairAllan)

SAMPy

Python hub implementation and client toolkit (LuigiPaioro)

JSAMP

Java hub implementation and client toolkit (MarkTaylor)

Applications which can talk SAMP

TOPCAT

GUI table manipulation tool - version 3.4 and later uses SAMP (MarkTaylor)

Aladin

Interactive sky atlas - version 6 and later uses SAMP (ThomasBoch)

SAMP extension for IDL

Demonstrated to work, should be released in future (ThomasBoch)

SAMP extension for PyRAF

Demonstrated to work, might possibly be released in future (ThomasBoch)

STILTS

Command-line table manipulation tool - version 2.0-2 and later can output tables using SAMP (MarkTaylor)

World Wide Telescope

Microsoft's sky visualization application - public Solstice Beta sends/receives VOTables (Jonathan Fay)

SkyView

The released SkyView CLI can broadcast image creation events when it generates resampled images. (TomMcGlynn)

Specfind comparison tool

version 1.2 uses SAMP (BriceGassmann)

SAOImage DS9

Image/catalog viewer tool - version 5.6 uses SAMP (Bill Joye, CfA)

JSky/JSkyCat

Image/catalog viewer GUI toolkit/application (Allan Brighton, for ESO)

SPLAT-VO

Spectrum analysis application - v3.9-0 uses SAMP to exchange spectra and SSA result tables (Peter Draper, JACH)

VOPlot

VOTable plotting application/applet - version 1.5 uses SAMP (VO-India)

VOPlatform

Application/data launcher (VO-India)

VODesktop

AstroGrid's VO tool uses SAMP at versions 1.2.3.1 and later. (NoelWinstanley, AstroGrid)

GAIA

Interactive image analysis tool - versions from the Nanahope (July 2009) Starlink release and later use SAMP (Peter Draper)

VirGO

ESO archive browser - versions from 1.4.4 use SAMP (FabienChereau)

VOSpec

Spectrum analysis tool - versions from 5.5 use SAMP (ESA)