Starlink SPLAT now a tool for the Virtual Observatory and has been renamed to SPLAT-VO.
In this release Starlink SPLAT-VO has been enhanced to access prototype spectral data servers (so called SSAP servers) that are being registered on the evolving virtual observatory. Using SPLAT-VO it is now possible to make queries about a region on the sky and retrieve, display and compare any spectra that are available.
Comparisons of such spectra are made possible by improvements to the Starlink AST library which can transform coordinates between various spectral systems (wavelength, frequency, energy and velocity) and between a growing number of flux systems (currently flux per unit frequency and per unit wavelength). This allows you to view various spectral from differing energy domains as a spectral energy distribution.
Other changes of note in this release: