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Accessing Online Astronomical Data

Astroquery is an astropy affiliated package that contains a collection of tools to access online Astronomical data. Each web service has its own sub-package. For example, to interface with the SIMBAD website , use the simbad sub-package:

>> > from

astroquery.simbad (import Simbad>> > theta1c=Simbad.query_object ' tet 16 Ori C ' )>> > theta1c .pprint () MAIN_ID (RA) (DEC) ... (COO_QUAL COO_WAVELENGTH (COO_BIBCODE) ------------ - ------------ - (...) -------- -------------- ------------------ - (tet) (Ori C) (0) (5)

31.

 ( (0) (5) (5)    4493  (...) (AO)   (A) (A) &  (A)  ...  656 , (V)

Installation and Requirements

Astroquery works with Python 3.6 or later. As an

astropy affiliate, astroquery requires (astropy version 2.0 or later.

astroquery uses the requests module to communicate with the internet. BeautifulSoup and html5lib ‘ are needed for HTML parsing for some services. The the keyring module is also required for accessing services that require a login. These can all be installed using pip or anaconda . Running the tests requires curl to be installed.

The latest version of astroquery can be conda installed:

$ conda install -c astropy astroquery

or pip installed:

and the ‘bleeding edge’ master version:

$ pip install https://github.com/ astropy / astroquery / archive / master.zip

or cloned and installed from source:

 #  If you have a github account:  $ git clone [email protected]: astropy / astroquery.git $   (#)  If you do not:  $ git clone https://github.com/astropy/astroquery.git $  cd  astroquery $ python setup.py install        Using astroquery   Importing astroquery on its own doesn't get you much: you need to import each sub-module specifically. Check out the  docs  to find a list of the tools available. The  API  Shows the standard suite of tools common to most modules, e.g. query_object and query_region. 
  To report bugs and request features, please use the issue tracker. Code contributions are very welcome, though we encourage you to follow the  API  and  contributing guidelines  as much as possible. 
        List of Modules   The following modules have been completed using a common API: 
    ALMA Archive     (Atomic Line List : A collection of more than  ,  atomic transitions.   Besancon : Model of stellar population synthesis in the Galaxy. 
   CDS MOC Service : A collection of all-sky survey coverage maps.    (CADC) : Canadian Astronomy Data Center.   ESASky : ESASky is a science driven discovery portal providing easy visualizations and full access to the entire sky as observed with ESA Space astronomy missions.   ESO Archive     (Gaia : European Space Agency Gaia Archive.)    GAMA database     (Gemini : Gemini Archive.)    HEASARC : NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center.    IBE : IRSA Image Server program interface (IBE) Query Tool provides access to the 2MASS, WISE, and PTF image archives.    IRSA : NASA / IPAC Infrared Science Archive. Science products for all of NASA's infrared and sub-mm missions.    IRSA dust : Galactic dust reddening and extinction maps from IRAS  (um data.)    MAGPIS : Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey. 6 and 35 - cm radio images of the Galactic plane from the VLA.    MAST : Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.    Minor Planet Center     NASA ADS : SAO / NASA Astrophysics Data System.    NED : NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database. Multiwavelength data from both surveys and publications.    NIST: Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) atomic lines database.    NRAO: Science data archive of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. VLA, JVLA, VLBA and GBT data products.   NVAS archive    (Simbad) : Basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system.    (Skyview) : NASA SkyView service for imaging surveys.  : National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) -maintained (mostly) molecular radio and millimeter line list service.    UKIDSS : UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey. JHK images of 72672 sq deg. in the northern sky.    VAMDC : VAMDC molecular line database.    (Vizier) : Set of , 19   published, multiwavelength catalogs hosted by the CDS.    VO Simple Cone Search    xMatch 
: Cross-identify sources between very large data sets or between a user-uploaded list and a large catalog.    These others are functional, but do not follow a common or consistent API: 
     Alfalfa : Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey; extragalactic HI radio data.   CosmoSim : The CosmoSim database provides results from cosmological simulations performed within different projects: the MultiDark project, the BolshoiP project, and the CLUES project.  
 Exoplanet Orbit Database 
   Fermi 
: Fermi gamma-ray telescope archive.   HITRAN : Access to the high-resolution transmission molecular absorption database.    (JPL Horizons) : JPL Solar System Dynamics Horizons Service.  JPL SBDB : JPL Solar System Dynamics Small-Body Database Browser Service.   Lamda : Leiden Atomic and Molecular Database; energy levels, radiative transitions, and collisional rates for astrophysically relevant atoms and molecules.   NASA Exoplanet Archive     (OAC API 
: Open Astronomy Catalog REST API Service.)   Ogle : Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment III; information on interstellar extinction towards the Galactic bulge.    (Open Expolanet Catalog (OEC)    SDSS : Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, including optical images, spectra, and spectral templates.    SHA : Spitzer Heritage Archive; infrared data products from the Spitzer Space Telescope.      ()   Citing Astroquery  
 If you use  astroquery , please cite the paper we published in  The Astronomical Journal . 
 The BibTeX entry is available from the package itself: 
  import astroquery astroquery .__ citation__   In addition you may also want to refer to specific versions of the package. We create a separate Zenodo DOI for each version, they can be looked up at the following  Zenodo page       
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