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

astropy.vo.samp

SAMP hub implementation and client toolkit in AstroPy 0.4 and later (previously SAMPy by Luigi Paioro)

JSAMP

Java hub implementation and client toolkit (MarkTaylor)

sampjs

JavaScript toolkit for sending messages from web pages using Web Profile (SAMP 1.3)

voclient

Contains libsamp C SAMP client library (MikeFitzpatrick)

WebSampConnector

Java applet toolkit for sending messages from web pages using Standard Profile mostly deprecated in favour of the Web Profile

Perl SAMP

Perl hub implementation and client toolkit (AlasdairAllan) Not actively maintained

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)

ASPRO2

Complete observation preparation tool for optical interferometers (JMMC)

LITpro

Model fitting software for data obtained from various stellar optical interferometers (JMMC)

SearchCal

Calibrator selection tool for long baseline optical interferometric observations (JMMC)

Seleste

TAP client (CfA)

VODb

Database access tool (Roy Henderson)

HIPE

The Herschel Interactive Processing Environment for data reduction and analysis uses SAMP (Stephan Ott)

CASSIS

Interactive spectrum analyser (IRAP-UPS/CNRS)

AMDA

Web-based space physics data analysis tool and database (CDPP)

3DView

3D visualization tool for planetary environments and data (CDPP)

TREPS

Web-based tool for coordinate system transformations in planetary sciences (CDPP)

APIS

Auroral Planetary Imaging and Spectroscopy database web page (LESIA)

Cartes du Ciel

Sky chart software with telescope control, talks SAMP since v3.10

Glue

An experimental SAMP plugin is available for the Glue data exploration toolkit/application since Sept 2017

Other Resources

VO Application Registry

More carefully curated list of some SAMP applications with detailed metadata (JMMC, for use with AppLauncher)