diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 364aa857f2..17b10ea16f 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -88,10 +88,10 @@ 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`. +sub-module specifically. See the documentation for a list of `Available +Services `_. +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`_ @@ -99,65 +99,6 @@ 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 900,000 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 Centre. - * `CASDA `_: CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive. - * `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 `_ - * `FIRST `_: Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm. 20-cm radio images of the extragalactic sky from the VLA. - * `Gaia `_: European Space Agency Gaia Archive. - * `ESA XMM `_: European Space Agency XMM-Newton Science Archive. - * `ESA Hubble `_: European Space Agency Hubble Science Archive. - * `ESA ISO `_: European Space Agency ISO Data 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 100 um data. - * `MAGPIS `_: Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey. 6 and 20-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 `_: National 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. - * `Splatalogue `_: National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)-maintained (mostly) molecular radio and millimeter line list service. - * `UKIDSS `_: UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey. JHK images of 7500 sq deg. in the northern sky. - * `Vamdc `_: VAMDC molecular line database. - * `Vizier `_: Set of 11,000+ published, multiwavelength catalogues 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 catalogue. - -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 ----------------- @@ -188,7 +129,6 @@ Maintained by `Adam Ginsburg`_ and `Brigitta Sipocz .. _Download Stable ZIP: https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/zipball/stable .. _Download Stable TAR: https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/tarball/stable .. _View on Github: https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/ -.. _docs: http://astroquery.readthedocs.io .. _Documentation: http://astroquery.readthedocs.io .. _astropy.astroquery@gmail.com: mailto:astropy.astroquery@gmail.com .. _Adam Ginsburg: http://www.adamgginsburg.com