The ESA-VO Team is pleased to announce the release of VOSpec 5.5 available at:

• Applet version
• Webstart version

VOSpec is a 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). This new release includes the following mayor features and improvements from V5.1:

• SAMP Integration - http://esavo.esac.esa.int/VOSpecManual/interoperability.html
• Best Fit Algorithm -   http://esavo.esac.esa.int/VOSpecManual/fitting.html
• Support to 1-D fits spectrum image - http://esavo.esac.esa.int/VOSpecManual/gui.html#open
• Update of the local file parsers, with use of the NVO SED library kindly provided and supported by the NVO Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophisics -http://vo.cfa.harvard.edu/soft/)

Furthermore, improvements from version 4 include:

• Registry interface update to rec 1.01 - New Euro-VO and NVO registries usage
• SSA interface updated to REC 1.04
• NVO SED library inclusion for SDM 1.0+ compatible spectra
• Dual spectra selector
  Reconfigurable tree
  Sortable table
• Local Registry
• Distance metadata calculation

For further information (manual, versioning info, other access interfaces) please check the VOSpec webpage.

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