CHANGES.rst

0.4.3 (unreleased)

New Tools and Services

Service fixes and enhancements

0.4.2 (2021-05-14)

New Tools and Services

cds.hips2fits

• New module HIPS2fits to provide access to fits/jpg/png image cutouts from a HiPS + a WCS. [#1734]

esa.iso

• New module to access ESA ISO mission. [#1914]

esa.xmm_newton

• 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]

mast

• Added Zcut functionality to astroquery [#1911]

svo_fps

• New module to access the Spanish Virtual Observatory Filter Profile List. [#1498]

Service fixes and enhancements

alma

• 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]

esa.esasky

• 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]

esa.hubble

• Module added to query eHST TAP based on a set of specific criteria and asynchronous jobs are now supported. [#1723]

gaia

• 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]

gemini

• 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/or NotFail. [#2000]
• Smarter defaulting of radius to None unless coordinates are specified, in which case defaults to 0.3 degrees. [#1995]

heasarc

• A NoResultsWarning is now returned when there is no matching rows were found in query. [#1829]

irsa

• Used more specific exceptions in IRSA. [#1854]

jplsbdb

• Returns astropy quantities, rather than scaled units. [#2011]

lcogt

• Module has been removed after having been defunct due to upstream API refactoring a few years ago. [#2071]

mast

• 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 and silent. [#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]

sdss

• Fix validation of field names. [#1790]

splatalogue

• 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]

ukidss

• Updated to UKIDSSDR11PLUS as the default data release. [#1767]

vamdc

• Deprecate module due to upstream library dependence and compability issues. [#2070]

vizier

• Refactor module to support list of coordinates as well as several fixes to follow changes in upstream API. [#2012]

Infrastructure, Utility and Other Changes and Additions

• 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]

0.4.1 (2020-06-19)

New Tools and Services

esa.xmm_newton

• A new ESA archive service for XMM-Newton access. [#1557]

image_cutouts.first

• Module added to access FIRST survey radio images. [#1733]

noirlab

• Module added to access the NOIRLab (formally NOAO) archive. [#1638]

Service fixes and enhancements

alma

• 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 column uid has been renamed mous_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 to stage_data. [#1683]
• Bugfix: when accessing private data, auth credentials were not being passed to the HEAD request used to acquire header data. [#1698]

casda

• Add ability to stage and download ASKAP data. [#1706]

cadc

• Fixed authentication and enabled listing of async jobs. [#1712]

eso

• New unzip parameter to control uncompressing the retrieved data. [#1642]

gaia

• Allow for setting row limits in query submissions through class attribute. [#1641]

gemini

• Allow for additional search terms to be sent to query_criteria and passed to the raw web query against the Gemini Archive. [#1659]

jplhorizons

• Fix for changes in HORIZONS return results after their 2020 Feb 12 update. [#1650]

nasa_exoplanet_archive

• 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]

nrao

• Fixed passing project_code to the query [#1720]

vizier

• It is now possible to specify constraints to query_region() with the column_filters keyword. [#1702]

Infrastructure, Utility and Other Changes and Additions

• 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]

0.4 (2020-01-24)

New Tools and Services

casda

• Module added to access data from the CSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive. [#1505]

dace

• Added DACE Service. See https://dace.unige.ch/ for details. [#1370]

gemini

• Module added to access the Gemini archive. [#1596]

Service fixes and enhancements

gaia

• Add optional 'columns' parameter to select specific columns. [#1548]

imcce

• Fix Skybot return for unumbered asteroids. [#1598]

jplhorizons

• Fix for changes in HORIZONS return results after their 2020 Jan 21 update. [#1620]

mast

• 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]

nasa_exoplanet_archive

• Redefined the query API so as to prevent downloading of the whole database. Added two functions query_planet (to query for a specific exoplanet), and query_star (to query for all exoplanets under a specific stellar system) [#1606]

splatalogue

• Added new 'only_astronomically_observed' option. [#1600]

vo_conesearch

• query_region() now accepts service_url keyword and uses conf.pedantic and conf.timeout directly. As a result, URL, PEDANTIC, and TIMEOUT class attributes are no longer needed, so they are removed from ConeSearchClass and ConeSearch. [#1528]
• The classic API conesearch() no longer takes timeout and pedantic keywords. It uses conf.pedantic and conf.timeout directly. [#1528]
• Null result now emits warning instead of exception. [#1528]
• Result is now returned as astropy.table.Table by default. [#1528]

Infrastructure, Utility and Other Changes and Additions

utils

• Added timer functions. [#1508]

0.3.10 (2019-09-19)

New Tools and Services

astrometry_net

• Module added to interface to astrometry.net plate-solving service. [#1163]

cadc

• Module added to access data at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre. [#1354, #1486]

esa

• Module added hubble for accessing the ESA Hubble Archive. [#1373, #1534]

gaia

• Added tables sharing, tables edition, upload from pytable and job results, cross match, data access and datalink access. [#1266]

imcce

• 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]

mast

• Addition of observation metadata query. [#1473]
• Addition of catalogs.MAST PanSTARRS catalog queries. [#1473]

mpc

• Functionality added to query observations database. [#1350]

Service fixes and enhancements

alma

• 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]

cds

• Apply MOCPy v0.5.* API changes. [#1343]

eso

• Try to re-authenticate when logged out from the ESO server. [#1315]

heasarc

• Fixing error handling to filter out only the query errors. [#1338]

jplhorizons

• Add refplane keyword to vectors_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]

jplsbdb

• Fix for missing values. [#1333]

mast

• 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]

nasa_ads

• Fix an error in one of the default keys, citations->citation. [#1337]

nist

• 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]

nrao

• Fix parameter validation allowing for hybrid telescope configuration. [#1283]

sdss

• Update to SDSS-IV URLs and general clean-up. [#1308]

vizier

• Support using the output values of find_catalog in get_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]

xmatch

• Add parameter area to restrict sky region considered. [#1476]

Infrastructure, Utility and Other Changes and Additions

• 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__ and astroquery.__bibtex__ attributes which give a citation for astroquery in bibtex format. [#1391]

0.3.9 (2018-12-06)

• 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

0.3.8 (2018-04-27)

• 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 and vsa: 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]

0.3.7 (2018-01-25)

• 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 to prepend_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]

0.3.6 (2017-07-03)

• 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 and turn_on_internet is not available any more from the main utils namespace, use them directly from utils.testing_tools. [#940]
• Added the 'verify' kwarg to Astroquery.request to provide a workaround for services that have HTTPS URLs but missing certificates. [#928]

0.3.5 (2017-03-29)

• 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)

0.3.4 (2016-11-21)

• 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)

0.3.3 (2016-10-11)

• 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)

0.3.2 (2016-06-10)

• Update ESO tool to work with new web API (#696)
• Added new instruments for ESO: ambient_paranal and meteo_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)

0.3.1 (2016-01-19)

• 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)

0.3.0 (2015-10-26)

• Fix ESO APEX project ID keyword (#591)
• Fix ALMA queries when accessing private data (#601)
• Allow data downloads to use the cache (#601)

0.2.6 (2015-07-23)

• 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)

0.2.4 (2015-03-27)

• 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)

0.2.3 (2014-09-30)

• 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, made username optional in login(): instead, you can now configure your preferred username. Finally, automatic login is now used by retrieve_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)

0.2.2 (2014-09-10)

• 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

0.2 (2014-08-17)

• 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

0.1 (2013-09-19)

• Initial release. Includes features!