- Download by observation id or source name. [#2078]
- Added custom ADQL and TAP+ functionality. [#2078]
- Enabled download of INTEGRAL data products. [#2105]
- Module added to perform a cone search based on a set of criteria. [#1855]
- Adding the extraction epic light curves and spectra. [#2017]
- Add alternative instance of HEASARC Server, maintained by INTEGRAL Science Data Center. [#1988]
- Making module compatible with the NASA Exoplanet Archive 2.0 using TAP. release. Support for querying old tables (exoplanets, compositepars, and exomultpars) has been dropped. [#2067]
- Change URL to https. [#2088]
- Fixed the generation of files with wrong extension. [#2017]
- Use astroquery downloader tool to get progressbar, caching, and prevent memory leaks. [#2087]
- Changed default of Gaia TAP Plus interface to instantiate silently. [#2085]
- Added posibility to query limited time range. [#1988]
- Doubling default timeout to 120 seconds. [#2108]
- Change URL to https. [#2108]
- Adding
cache
kwarg to the class methods to be able to control the use of local cache. [#2092] - Making optional kwargs keyword only. [#2092]
- Change URL to https. [#2108]
- A
NoResultsWarning
is now returned when there is return of any empty table. [#1837]
- Fixed progressbar download to report the correct downloaded amount. [#2091]
- Dropping Python 3.6 support. [#2102]
- New module HIPS2fits to provide access to fits/jpg/png image cutouts from a HiPS + a WCS. [#1734]
- New module to access ESA ISO mission. [#1914]
- New method
get_epic_images
is added to extract EPIC images from tarballs. [#1759] - New method
get_epic_metadata
is added to download EPIC sources metadata. [#1814]
- Added Zcut functionality to astroquery [#1911]
- New module to access the Spanish Virtual Observatory Filter Profile List. [#1498]
- The archive query interface has been deprecated in favour of VirtualObservatory (VO) services such as TAP, ObsCore etc. The alma library has been updated accordingly. [#1689]
- ALMA queries using string representations will now convert to appropriate coordinates before being sent to the server; previously they were treated as whatever unit they were presented in. [#1867]
- Download mechanism uses the ALMA Datalink service that allows exploring and downloading entire tarball package files or just part of their content. [#1820]
- Fixed bug in
get_data_info
to ensure relevant fields are strings. [#2022]
- All ESASky spectra now accessible. [#1909]
- Updated ESASky module for version 3.5 of ESASky backend. [#1858]
- Added row limit parameter for map queries. [#1858]
- Module added to query eHST TAP based on a set of specific criteria and asynchronous jobs are now supported. [#1723]
- Fixed RA/dec table edit capability. [#1784]
- Changed file names handling when downloading data. [#1784]
- Improved code to handle bit data type. [#1784]
- Prepared code to handle new datalink products. [#1784]
login()
method to support authenticated sessions to the GOA. [#1780]get_file()
to support downloading files. [#1780]- fix syntax error in
query_criteria()
[#1823] - If QA and/or engineering parameters are explicitly passed, remove the
defaults of
notengineering
and/orNotFail
. [#2000] - Smarter defaulting of radius to None unless coordinates are specified, in which case defaults to 0.3 degrees. [#1998]
- A
NoResultsWarning
is now returned when there is no matching rows were found in query. [#1829]
- Used more specific exceptions in IRSA. [#1854]
- Returns astropy quantities, rather than scaled units. [#2011]
- Module has been removed after having been defunct due to upstream API refactoring a few years ago. [#2071]
- Added
Observations.download_file
method to download a single file from MAST given an input data URI. [#1825] - Added case for passing a row to
Observations.download_file
. [#1881] - Removed deprecated methods:
Observations.get_hst_s3_uris()
,Observations.get_hst_s3_uri()
,Core.get_token()
,Core.enable_s3_hst_dataset()
,Core.disable_s3_hst_dataset()
; and parameters:obstype
andsilent
. [#1884] - Fixed error causing empty products passed to
Observations.get_product_list()
to yeild a non-empty result. [#1921] - Changed AWS cloud access from RequesterPays to anonymous acces. [#1980]
- Fixed error with download of Spitzer data. [#1994]
- Fix validation of field names. [#1790]
- The Splatalogue ID querying is now properly cached in the astropy cache directory. The scraping function has also been updated to reflect the Splatalogue webpage. [#1772]
- The splatalogue URL has changed to https://splatalogue.online, as the old site stopped functioning in September 2020 [#1817]
- Updated to
UKIDSSDR11PLUS
as the default data release. [#1767]
- Deprecate module due to upstream library dependence and compability issues. [#2070]
- Refactor module to support list of coordinates as well as several fixes to follow changes in upstream API. [#2012]
- HTTP requests and responses can now be logged when the astropy logger is set to level "DEBUG" and "TRACE" respectively. [#1992]
- Astroquery and all its modules now uses a logger similar to Astropy's. [#1992]
- A new ESA archive service for XMM-Newton access. [#1557]
- Module added to access FIRST survey radio images. [#1733]
- Module added to access the NOIRLab (formally NOAO) archive. [#1638]
- A new API was deployed in late February / early March 2020, requiring a
refactor. The user-facing API should remain mostly the same, but some
service interruption may have occurred. Note that the
stage_data
columnuid
has been renamedmous_uid
, which is a technical correction, and several columns have been added. [#1644, #1665, #1683] - The contents of tarfiles can be shown with the
expand_tarfiles
keyword tostage_data
. [#1683] - Bugfix: when accessing private data, auth credentials were not being passed to the HEAD request used to acquire header data. [#1698]
- Add ability to stage and download ASKAP data. [#1706]
- Fixed authentication and enabled listing of async jobs. [#1712]
- New
unzip
parameter to control uncompressing the retrieved data. [#1642]
- Allow for setting row limits in query submissions through class attribute. [#1641]
- Allow for additional search terms to be sent to query_criteria and passed to the raw web query against the Gemini Archive. [#1659]
- Fix for changes in HORIZONS return results after their 2020 Feb 12 update. [#1650]
- Update the NASA Exoplanet Archive interface to support all tables available
through the API. The standard astroquery interface is now implemented via the
query_*[_async]
methods. [#1700]
- Fixed passing
project_code
to the query [#1720]
- It is now possible to specify constraints to
query_region()
with thecolumn_filters
keyword. [#1702]
- Versions of astropy <3.1 are no longer supported. [#1649]
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the TOP statement from being properly added to a TAP query containing valid 'n'. The bug was revealed by changes to the gaia module, introduced in version 0.4. [#1680]
- Added new
json
keyword to BaseQuery requests. [#1657]
- Module added to access data from the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive. [#1505]
- Added DACE Service. See https://dace.unige.ch/ for details. [#1370]
- Module added to access the Gemini archive. [#1596]
- Add optional 'columns' parameter to select specific columns. [#1548]
- Fix Skybot return for unumbered asteroids. [#1598]
- Fix for changes in HORIZONS return results after their 2020 Jan 21 update. [#1620]
- Add Kepler to missions with cloud support,
Update
get_cloud_uri
so that if a file is not found it produces a warning and returns None rather than throwing an exception. [#1561]
- Redefined the query API so as to prevent downloading of the whole database.
Added two functions
query_planet
(to query for a specific exoplanet), andquery_star
(to query for all exoplanets under a specific stellar system) [#1606]
- Added new 'only_astronomically_observed' option. [#1600]
query_region()
now acceptsservice_url
keyword and usesconf.pedantic
andconf.timeout
directly. As a result,URL
,PEDANTIC
, andTIMEOUT
class attributes are no longer needed, so they are removed fromConeSearchClass
andConeSearch
. [#1528]- The classic API
conesearch()
no longer takestimeout
andpedantic
keywords. It usesconf.pedantic
andconf.timeout
directly. [#1528] - Null result now emits warning instead of exception. [#1528]
- Result is now returned as
astropy.table.Table
by default. [#1528]
- Added timer functions. [#1508]
- Module added to interface to astrometry.net plate-solving service. [#1163]
- Module added to access data at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre. [#1354, #1486]
- Module added
hubble
for accessing the ESA Hubble Archive. [#1373, #1534]
- Added tables sharing, tables edition, upload from pytable and job results, cross match, data access and datalink access. [#1266]
- Service
miriade
added, querying asteroid and comets ephemerides. [#1353] - Service
skybot
added, identifying Solar System objects in a given field at a given epoch. [#1353]
- Addition of observation metadata query. [#1473]
- Addition of catalogs.MAST PanSTARRS catalog queries. [#1473]
- Functionality added to query observations database. [#1350]
- Fix some broken VOtable returns and a broken login URL. [#1369]
get_project_metadata()
is added to query project metadata. [#1147]- Add access to the
member_ous_id
attribute. [#1316]
- Apply MOCPy v0.5.* API changes. [#1343]
- Try to re-authenticate when logged out from the ESO server. [#1315]
- Fixing error handling to filter out only the query errors. [#1338]
- Add
refplane
keyword tovectors_async
to return data for different available reference planes. [#1335] - Vector queries provide different aberrations, ephemerides queries provide extra precision option. [#1478]
- Fix crash when precision to the second on epoch is requested. [#1488]
- Fix for missing H, G values. [#1333]
- Fix for missing values. [#1333]
- Update query_criteria keyword obstype->intentType. [#1366]
- Remove deprecated authorization code, fix unit tests, general code cleanup, documentation additions. [#1409]
- TIC catalog search update. [#1483]
- Add search by object name to Tesscut, make resolver_object public, minor bugfixes. [#1499]
- Add option to query TESS Candidate Target List (CTL) Catalog. [#1503]
- Add verbose keyword for option to silence logger info and warning about S3 in enable_cloud_dataset(). [#1536]
- Fix an error in one of the default keys, citations->citation. [#1337]
- Fixed an upstream issue where js was included in returned data. [#1359]
- Unescape raw HTML codes in returned data back into Unicode equivalents to stop them silently breaking Table parsing. [#1431]
- Fix parameter validation allowing for hybrid telescope configuration. [#1283]
- Update to SDSS-IV URLs and general clean-up. [#1308]
- Support using the output values of
find_catalog
inget_catalog
. [#603] - Fix to ensure to fall back on the default catalog when it's not provided as part of the query method. [#1328]
- Fix swapped width and length parameters. [#1406]
- Add parameter
area
to restrict sky region considered. [#1476]
- HTTP user-agent now has the string
_testrun
in the version number of astroquery, for queries triggered by testing. [#1307] - Adding deprecation decorators to
utils
from astropy to be used while we support astropy <v3.1.2. [#1435] - Added tables sharing, tables edition, upload from pytable and job results,
data access and datalink access to
utils.tap
. [#1266] - Added a new
astroquery.__citation__
andastroquery.__bibtex__
attributes which give a citation for astroquery in bibtex format. [#1391]
- New tool: MPC module can now request comet and asteroid ephemerides from the Minor Planet Ephemeris Service, and return a table of observatory codes and coordinates. [#1177]
- New tool
CDS
: module to query the MOCServer, a CDS tool providing MOCs and meta data of various data-sets. [#1111] - New tool
JPLSDB
: New module for querying JPL's Small Body Database Browser [#1214] - ATOMIC: fix several bugs for using Quantities for the range parameters. [#1187]
- CADC: added the get_collections method. [#1482]
- ESASKY: get_maps() accepts dict or list of (name, Table) pairs as input table list. [#1167]
- ESO: Catch exception on login when keyring fails to get a valid storage. [#1198]
- ESO: Add option to retrieve calibrations associated to data. [#1184]
- FERMI: Switch to HTTPS [#1241]
- IRSA: Added
selcols
keyword. [#1296] - JPLHorizons: Fix for missing total absolute magnitude or phase coefficient for comets [#1151]
- JPLHorizons: Fix queries for major solar system bodies when sub-observer or sub-solar positions are requested. [#1268]
- JPLHorizons: Fix bug with airmass column. [#1284]
- JPLSpec: New query service for JPL Molecular Spectral Catalog. [#1170]
- JPLHorizons: JPL server protocol and epoch range bug fixes, user-defined location and additional ephemerides information added [#1207]
- HITRAN: use class-based API [#1028]
- MAST: Enable converting list of products into S3 uris [#1126]
- MAST: Adding Tesscut interface for accessing TESS cutouts. [#1264]
- MAST: Add functionality for switching to auth.mast when it goes live [#1256]
- MAST: Support downloading data from multiple missions from the cloud [#1275]
- MAST: Updating HSC and Gaia catalog calls (bugfix) [#1203]
- MAST: Fixing bug in catalog criteria queries, and updating remote tests. [#1223]
- MAST: Fixing mrp_only but and changing default to False [#1238]
- MAST: TESS input catalog bugfix [#1297]
- NASA_ADS: Use new API [#1162]
- Nasa Exoplanet Arhive: Add option to return all columns. [#1183]
- SPLATALOGUE: Minor - utils & tests updated to match upstream change [#1236]
- utils.tap: Fix Gaia units. [#1161]
- VO_CONESEARCH: Service validator now uses new STScI VAO TAP registry. [#1114]
- WFAU: Added QSL constraints parameter [#1259]
- XMATCH: default timeout has changed from 60s to 300s. [#1137]
- Re-enable sandboxing / preventing internet access during non-remote tests, which has been unintentionally disabled for a potentially long time. [#1274]
- File download progress bar no longer displays when Astropy log level is set to "WARNING", "ERROR", or "CRITICAL". [#1188]
- utils: fix bug in
parse_coordinates
, now strings that can be interpreted as coordinates are not sent through Sesame. When unit is not provided, degrees is now explicitely assumed. [#1252] - JPLHorizons: fix for #1201 issue in elements() and vectors(), test added
- JPLHorizons: fix for missing H, G values [#1332]
- JPLHorizons: warn if URI is longer than 2000 chars, docs updated
- JPLSBDB: fix for missing value, test added
- New tool
jplhorizons
: JPL Horizons service to obtain ephemerides, orbital elements, and state vectors for Solar System objects. [#1023] - New tool
mpc
: MPC Module to query the Minor Planet Center web service. [#1064, #1077] - New tool
oac
: Open Astronomy Catalog API to obtain data products on supernovae, TDEs, and kilonovae. [#1053] - New tool
wfau
andvsa
: Refactor of the UKIDSS query tool add full WFAU support. [#984] - ALMA: Adding support for band and polarization selection. [#1108]
- HEASARC: Add additional functionality and expand query capabilities. [#1047]
- GAIA: Default URL switched to DR2 and made configurable. [#1112]
- IRSA: Raise exceptions for exceeding output table size limit. [#1032]
- IRSA_DUST: Call over https. [#1069]
- LAMDA: Fix writer for Windows on Python 3. [#1059]
- MAST: Removing filesize checking due to unreliable filesize reporting in the database. [#1050]
- MAST: Added Catalogs class. [#1049]
- MAST: Enable downloading MAST HST data from S3. [#1040]
- SPLATALOGUE: Move to https as old HTTP post requests were broken. [#1076]
- UKIDSS: Update to DR10 as default database. [#984]
- utils.TAP: Add tool to check for phase of background job. [#1073]
- utils.TAP: Added redirect handling to sync jobs. [#1099]
- utils.TAP: Fix jobsIDs assignment. [#1105]
- VO_CONESEARCH: URL for validated services have changed. Old URL should still redirect but it is deprecated. [#1033]
- New tool: Exoplanet Orbit Catalog, NASA Exoplanet Archive [#771]
- ESO: The upstream API changed. We have adapted. [#970]
- ESO: Added 'destination' keyword to Eso.retrieve_data(), to download files to a specific location (other than the cache). [#976]
- ESO: Fixed Eso.query_instrument() to use instrument specific query forms (it was using the main form before). [#976]
- ESO: Implemented Eso.query_main() to query all instruments with the main form (even the ones without a specific form). [#976]
- ESO: Disabled caching for all Eso.retrieve_data() operations. [#976]
- ESO: Removed deprecated Eso.data_retrieval() and Eso.query_survey(). Please use Eso.retrieve_data() and Eso.query_surveys() instead. [#1019]
- ESO: Added configurable URL. [#1017]
- ESO: Fixed string related bugs. [#981]
- MAST: Added convenience function to list available missions. [#947]
- MAST: Added login capabilities [#982]
- MAST: Updated download functionality [#1004]
- MAST: Fixed no results bug [#1003]
- utils.tap: Made tkinter optional dependency. [#983]
- utils.tap: Fixed a bug in load_tables. [#990]
- vo_conesearch: Fixed bad query for service that cannot accept '&&' in URL. [#993]
- vo_conesearch: Removed broken services from default list. [#997, #1002]
- IRSA Dust: fix units in extinction by band table. [#1016]
- IRSA: Updated links that switched to use https. [#1010]
- NRAO: Allow multiple configurations, telescopes in queries [#1020]
- SIMBAD: adding 'get_query_payload' kwarg to all public methods to return the request parameters. [#962]
- CosmoSim: Fixed login service. [#999]
- utils: upgrade
prepend_docstr_noreturns
to work with multiple sections, and thus rename it toprepend_docstr_nosections
. [#988] - Vizier: find_catalogs will now respect UCD specifications [#1000]
- ATOMIC: Added ability to select which rows are returned from the atomic line database. [#1006]
- ESASKY: Added Windows support, various bugfixes. [#1001, #977]
- GAMA: Updated to use the newer DR3 release. [#1005]
- New tool: MAST - added module to access the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes. [#920, #937]
- LAMDA: Add function to write LAMDA-formatted Tables to a datafile. [#887]
- ALMA: Fix to queries and tests that were broken by changes in the archive. Note that as of April 2017, the archive is significantly broken and missing many data sets. [#888]
- SIMBAD: "dist" is now available as a valid votable field. [#849] Additional minor fixes. [#932,#892]
- SHA: fix bug with the coordinate handling. [#885]
turn_off_internet
andturn_on_internet
is not available any more from the mainutils
namespace, use them directly fromutils.testing_tools
. [#940]- Added the 'verify' kwarg to
Astroquery.request
to provide a workaround for services that have HTTPS URLs but missing certificates. [#928]
- New tool: Gaia - added module to access the European Space Agency Gaia Archive. (#836)
- New tool: VO Cone Search - added module to access Virtual Observatory's
Simple Cone Search. This is ported from
astropy.vo
. (#859) - New utility: TAP/TAP+ - added Table Access Protocol utility and the ESAC Science Data Centre (ESDC) extension. (#836)
- Fix VizieR to respect specification to return default columns only (#792)
- SIMBAD queries allow multiple configurable parameters (#820)
- Add a capability to resume partially-completed downloads for services that support the http 'range' keyword. Currently applied to ESO and ALMA (#812,#876)
- SIMBAD now supports vectorized region queries. A list of coordinates can be sent to SIMBAD simultaneously. Users will also be warned if they submit queries with >10000 entries, which is the SIMBAD-recommended upper limit. Also, SIMBAD support has noted that any IP submitting >6 queries/second will be soft-banned, so we have added a warning to this effect in the documentation (#833)
- ALMA: Fix to always use https as the archive now requires it. (#814, #828)
- ESASky: Fix various issues related to remote API changes. (#805, #817)
- ESASky: Corrected Herschel filter indexing. (#844)
- ESO: Fix picking issue with simple
query_survey()
queries. (#801) - ESO: Fix FEROS and HARPS instrument queries. (#840)
- NRAO: Change default radius from 1 degree to 1 arcmin. (#813)
- New tool: basic HITRAN queries support (#617)
- Fix #737, an issue with broken ALMA archive tables, via a hack (#775)
- Correct HEASARC tool, which was sending incorrect data to the server (#774)
- Fix NIST issue #714 which led to badly-parsed tables (#773)
- NRAO archive tool allows user logins and HTML-based queries (#767, #780)
- ALMA allows kwargs as input, and various small fixes (#785, #790, #782)
- XMatch caching bug fixed (#789)
- Various fixes to ESASky (#779, #772, #770)
- New tool: VAMDC-cdms interface (#658)
- Fix issue with exclude keyword in Splatalogue queries (#616)
- Option to toggle the display of the download bar (#734)
- ESASKY - added new module for querying the ESASKY archive (#758, #763, #765)
- Refactor Splatalogue and XMatch to use the caching (#747, #751)
- Minor data updates to Splatalogue (#746, #754, #760)
- Fix parsing bug for
_parse_radius
in Simbad (#753) - Multiple fixes to ensure Windows compatibility (#709, #726)
- Minor fixes to ESO to match upstream form changes (#729)
- Update ESO tool to work with new web API (#696)
- Added new instruments for ESO:
ambient_paranal
andmeteo_paranal
(#657) - Fix problem with listed votable fields being truncated in SIMBAD (#654)
- SDSS remote API fixes (#690)
- ALMA file downloader will skip over, rather than crashing on, access denied (HTTP 401) errors (#687)
- Continued minor ALMA fixes (#655,#672,#687,#688)
- Splatalogue export limit bugfix (#673)
- SIMBAD flux_quality flag corrected to flux_qual (#680)
- VIZIER add a flag to return the query payload for debugging (#668)
- Fix bug in xmatch service that required astropy tables to have exactly 2 columns on input (#641)
- Fix NASA ADS, which had an internal syntax error (#602)
- Bugfix in NRAO queries: telescope config was parsed incorrectly (#629)
- IBE - added new module for locating data from PTF, WISE, and 2MASS from IRSA. See <http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ibe/> for more information about IBE and <http://www.ptf.caltech.edu/page/ibe> for more information about PTF survey data in particular. (#450)
- Fix ESO APEX project ID keyword (#591)
- Fix ALMA queries when accessing private data (#601)
- Allow data downloads to use the cache (#601)
- ESO bugfixes for handling radio buttons (#560)
- ESO: added SPHERE to list (#551)
- ESO/ALMA test cleanup (#553)
- Allow ALMA project view (#554)
- Fix Splatalogue version keyword (#557)
- Bugfix for
utils.commons.send_request()
: Raise exception if error status is returned in the response. (#491) - Update for ALMA Cycle 3 API change (#500)
- Added LCOGT Archive support (#537)
- Refactored LAMDA to match the standard API and added a critical density calculation utility (#546)
- AstroResponse has been removed, which means that all cached objects will have
new hashes. You should clear your cache: for most users, that means
rm -r ~/.astropy/cache/astroquery/
(#418) - In ESO and ALMA, default to not storing your password. New keyword
store_password=False
. (#415) - In ESO, fixed a form activation issue triggered in ESO
retrieve_data()
, updated file download link triggered by server side change. More interesting, madeusername
optional inlogin()
: instead, you can now configure your preferredusername
. Finally, automatic login is now used byretrieve_data()
, if configured. (#420, #427) - Bugfix for UKIDSS: Login now uses the correct session to retrieve the data (#425)
- ALMA - many new features, including selective file retrieval. Fixes many errors that were unnoticed in the previous version (#433)
- ALMA - add
help
method and pass payload keywords on correctly. Validate the payload before querying. (#438)
- Support direct transmission of SQL queries to the SDSS server (#410)
- Added email/text job completion alert (#407) to the CosmoSim tool (#267).
- ESO archive now supports HARPS/FEROS reprocessed data queries (#412)
- IPython notebook checker in the ESO tool is now compatible with regular python (#413)
- Added new tool: ALMA archive query tool http://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/alma/alma.html (#411)
- setup script and installation fixes
- New tools: ESO, GAMA, xmatch, skyview, OEC
- Consistent with astropy 0.4 API for coordinates
- Now uses the astropy affiliated template
- Python 3 compatibility dramatically improved
- Caching added and enhanced: the default cache directory is
~/.astropy/cache/astroquery/[service_name]
- Services with separate login pages can be accessed
- Initial release. Includes features!