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SPECTCOL

 

SPECTCOL is a graphical tool implemented in Java. It allows to manipulate and combine spectroscopic and collisional data coming from the databases (BASECOL, CDMS, JPL, HITRAN) using VAMDC technology.

XSAMS(Xml Schema for Atoms, Molecules and Solids) is the VAMDC data format that SPECTCOL is able to manipulate. SPECTCOL provides methods to convert these data into other formats(CSV, RADEX).

For any question or feedback, send an e-mail to support[at]vamdc.eu.
For details on updates and previous versions, please refer to the Version History section below.

 

Download:

For Mac_Arm: SpectcolLauncher_arm.tar.gz
For Mac_Intel: SpectcolLauncher_intel.tar.gz
For Linux: SpectcolLauncher.tar.gz

 

Credits:

Contributors: M.L. Dubernet, C. Boursier, Y.A. BA
Previous participants: L. Nenadovic, M. Doronin
Publication: Y.A. Ba, C. Boursier, O. Denis-Alpizar, C. Vastel, N. Moreau, C.M. Zwölf, M.L. Dubernet. To be submitted to A&A 2025

 

Licence:

BSD Licence, @VAMDC Copyright

  • Scientific Use Case-

     

    Accessing VAMDC from a standalone tool: SPECTCOL

     

    The aim of the client tool SPECTCOL is to associate spectroscopic data provided by spectroscopic databases with collisional data provided by collisional databases using the VAMDC technology.

     

    The client tool interrogates the registries to find spectroscopic and collisional information about a molecule. It retrieves different possible sets of data from different databases. The user can associate sets of his own choice in order to create customized combination of spectroscopic and collisional data.

     

    Indeed the usual difficulty met by astrophysical users is to combine collisional data from a database such as BASECOL [https://basecol.vamdc.org] with spectroscopic data coming from other native databases such as CDMS [https://cdms.astro.uni-koeln.de/], JPL [https://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/] or any other spectroscopic databases. Combination of data implies the possibility to match molecular states that were very often described differently in JPL, CDMS and
    BASECOL, and this problem is mostly solved using VAMDC and SPECTCOL.

  • Tutorial-

     

    The tutorial or quick start on SPECTCOL allows users to pick up the tool easily. This tutorial describes in a simple way the various stages of functions in Spectcol accompanied each time by specific examples.

     

    The video tutorial is available here, and the written tutorial can be found here.

  • Version History-

     

    Version 2502_r1

    Released February 2025

    -Publication: “SPECTCOL: A VAMDC tool for molecular spectroscopy and collisional data”, doi will be available soon

    -Benchmark files on zenodo: doi will be available soon

     

    Version 12.07-r2

    Released September 2014

    -Bug fixes related to the hyperfines data, output format Radex, change CDMS database identifier

    -Extension of “Transition search query” part

    -Display energy levels diagram