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)
- WebSampConnector
- Java applet toolkit for sending messages from web pages
- web SAMP
- Javascript toolkit for sending messages from web pages using Web Profile (SAMP 1.3)
Applications which can talk SAMP
This list is not comprehensive, but lists a number of tools which are known to use SAMP. Contributions are welcome.
- 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)
- Period04
- Time Series analysis application - versions from 1.2.0 use SAMP (Patrick Lenz)
- tapsh
- A database query shell for TAP (Markus Demleitner)
- FITS Manager
- Application for managing local FITS files (China-VO)