Services

The Australian Virtual Observatory (Aus-VO) provides a number of resources for astronomers. These resources include web services (via SOAP), catalogue servers, visualisation tools and conesearch servers.

The following services were previously hosted at www.aus-vo.org:8080. They have now moved to their target destination, services.aus-vo.org. If you have previously used addresses of the former type, you should change them to the new address.

SkyCat

 An easy to user, extensible astronomical catalogue server. Presently this service provides access to the HIPASS Catalogue, the HIPASS HVC catalogue, and the SUMSS source catalogue.

Volume

 A web application to visualise your VOTable, in several coordinate systems. This is available as an output option from SkyCat.

Conesearch

 A VO-compliant conesearch service returning VOTable. Note that it returns XML and so you'll often need to 'view source' to from your browser to see anything. The general format is:

http://services.aus-vo.org/conesearch/CAT?=...&RA=...&DEC=... &SR=...
  CAT astro_skycat_sumss, astro_skycat_hicat or astro_skycat_hvc
  RA Right ascension in decimal degrees
  DEC Declination in decimal degrees
  SR Search Radius in decimal degrees

Some examples are

The following services are not routinely available!

Quanta Servlet

Convert a wide range of units. This example talks to the web service below.

Quanta Web Service

A SOAP Web Service with interfaces with AIPS++. This is a demonstration of wrapping existing native code in a language-neutral, world-accessible web service. This link returns a WSDL file. You may have to "view source" to see this file. A list of methods is available. Note that the wsdl link on this Axis page is incorrect.

   
   

These pages are maintained by David Barnes, and hosted by the Astrophysics Group, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne.