Applauncher
the JMMC VO Dock for Astronomers
AppLauncher is an OpenSource tool developed by the JMMC Technical Group to assist the astronomers in their everyday life:
- easily ensure VO interoperability by managing the SAMP hub for you;
- discover and automatically start VO tools for your own workflow.
Technical background of AppLauncher is described in
- SAMP App Launcher - An on-demand VO application starter by JMMC :
Lafrasse S., Bourgès L., Mella G. - ADASS XXI (Paris, 2011)
You can get the user manual in PDF format, or access it directly from within AppLauncher (from the Help menu).
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If this software was helpful in your research, please use this acknowledgement:
"This research has made use of the Jean-Marie Mariotti Center \textttAppLauncher application \footnoteAvailable at http://www.jmmc.fr/applauncher developped by IPAG, heavily based on \textttjSAMP from Mark TAYLOR \footnoteAvailable at http://software.astrogrid.org/doc/p/jsamp/1.3-2/"