astroquery: An Astronomical Web-querying Package in Python
Journal article, 2019
Astroquery is a collection of tools for requesting data from databases hosted on remote servers with interfaces exposed on the Internet, including those with web pages but without formal application program interfaces. These tools are built on the Python requests package, which is used to make HTTP requests, and astropy, which provides most of the data parsing functionality. astroquery modules generally attempt to replicate the web page interface provided by a given service as closely as possible, making the transition from browser-based to command-line interaction easy. astroquery has received significant contributions from throughout the astronomical community, including several from telescope archives. astroquery enables the creation of fully reproducible workflows from data acquisition through publication. This paper describes the philosophy, basic structure, and development model of the astroquery package. The complete documentation for astroquery can be found at http://astroquery.readthedocs.io/.
astronomical databases: miscellaneous
virtual observatory tools
Author
Adam Ginsburg
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro
Brigitta M. Sipocz
University of Cambridge
C. E. Brasseur
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Philip S. Cowperthwaite
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Matthew W. Craig
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Christoph Deil
Max Planck Society
James Guillochon
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Giannina Guzman
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Villanova University
Pey Lian Lim
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Kelly E. Lockhart
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Michael Mommert
Lowell Observatory
Brett M. Morris
University of Washington
Henrik Norman
European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
Winter Way
Magnus V. Persson
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics
Thomas P. Robitaille
Aperio Software Ltd.
Juan-Carlos Segovia
European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
Leo P. Singer
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
University of Maryland
Erik J. Tollerud
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Miguel de Val-Borro
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Catholic University of America
Ivan Valtchanov
European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
Julien Woillez
European Southern Observatory Santiago
Astronomical Journal
0004-6256 (ISSN) 1538-3881 (eISSN)
Vol. 157 3 98Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Other Computer and Information Science
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Information Science
Infrastructure
Onsala Space Observatory
DOI
10.3847/1538-3881/aafc33