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VIM is a tool for researching multiple sky positions simultaneously. Each source becomes a row in a table, with catalog, image cutouts, and spectral information. This information is drawn from all the published surveys of the astronomical literature.

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VIM Documentation and Help:

• How to Use the VIM Web Service

• All the VIM Tools Explained

• About VIM

• Contact Us

Step-by-step guides to VIM

• Example 1: Multiple Cutouts for Multiple Sources

• Example 2: Which investigators used XMM to observe my favorite sources?

• Example 3: Checking what photometry NED has for a set of sources

• Example 4: Discover, take subset, Match against EUVE and ROSAT catalogs

• Example 5: A color-color-color Plot from the Join of GSC and USNO-B

• Example 6: NVO Inventory Services

Sample VIM Workbenches

• 6 Bright Galaxies and its script

• 90 Bright Arp galaxies and its script

• 51 Xray binaries and its script

• 148 matched SDSS and 2MASS and its script

• 47 rich Abell clusters and its script

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Installing & Scripting VIM

• Scripting with VIM

• All the VIM Tools Explained

• Installing VIM

Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University The NVO is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance This NVO Application is hosted by Caltech

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