Data Discovery
Spectral Analysis
Data visualisation and handling
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Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized images of any part of the sky, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogs or personal user data files, and to interactively access related data and information from the SIMBAD, NED, VizieR, or other archives for all known objects in the field. Aladin is particularly useful for multi-spectral cross-identifications of astronomical sources, observation preparation and quality control of new data sets (by comparison with standard catalogues covering the same region of sky). | Download |
| DataScope | Use DataScope to find everything that's known about a given target or region of the sky. DataScope will query hundreds of VO-enabled data resources and organize the results for your viewing. | Download |
Spectral Analysis
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VOSpec is the answer from the ESAVO Team to the demand of having a solid tool able to handle Spectra in the VO context as well as providing analysis capabilities and easy integration of spectra coming from different data providers, wavelengths, and different metadata (e.g. units). | Download |
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SPLAT is a spectral analysis tool from the Starlink project, which is now maintained by Peter Draper at Durham University. With the assistance of Mark Taylor from the AstroGrid team, this now been "VO-enabled". It understands SAMP messages, can access VOSpace, and can make queries to worldwide spectral services. | Download |
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Specview is a tool for 1-D spectral visualization and analysis of astronomical spectrograms. It is written in Java thus can be run anywhere Java is supported. Specview is capable of reading all the Hubble Space Telescope spectral data formats, as well as data from several other instruments (such as IUE, FUSE, ISO, FORS and SDSS), preview spectra from MAST, and data from generic FITS and ASCII tables. It can also read data from Virtual Observatory servers, and read and write spectrogram data in Virtual Observatory SED format. It can also read files in the SPC Galactic format used in the chemistry field. | Download |
Data visualisation and handling
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VOPlot is a tool for visualizing astronomical data. VOPlot is developed in JAVA, and acts on data available in the VOTable format. VOPlot is available as a stand alone version, which is to be installed on the user's machine, or as a web-based version fully integrated with the VizieR database. | Download |
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TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and manipulation of source catalogues and other tables, though it can be used for non-astronomical data as well. It understands a number of different astronomically important formats (including FITS and VOTable) and more formats can be added. | Download |
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VisIVO is a visualisation and analysis Free software for astrophysical data. VisIVO can handle both observational and theoretical data. It can be used both as a stand-alone application, that acts on local files, and as an interface to the Virtual Observatory framework, from which it can retrieve the data. | Download |
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The STIL Tool Set is a set of command-line tools based on STIL, the Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library. It deals with the processing of tabular data; the package has been designed for, but is not restricted to, astronomical tables such as object catalogues. Some of the tools are generic and can work with multiple formats (including FITS, VOTable, CSV, SQL and ASCII), and others are specific to the VOTable format. In some ways, STILTS forms the command-line counterpart of the GUI table analysis tool TOPCAT. The package is robust, fully documented, and designed for efficiency, especially with very large datasets. | Download |