SIAService

class pyvo.dal.sia.SIAService(baseurl)[source]

Bases: pyvo.dal.query.DALService

a representation of an SIA service

instantiate an SIA service

Parameters:

baseurl : str

the base URL for submitting search queries to the service.

Attributes Summary

description the service description.
params the service parameters.

Methods Summary

create_query([pos, size, format, intersect, …]) create a query object that constraints can be added to and then
search(pos[, size, format, intersect, verbosity]) submit a simple SIA query to this service with the given constraints.

Attributes Documentation

description

the service description.

params

the service parameters.

Methods Documentation

create_query(pos=None, size=None, format=None, intersect=None, verbosity=None, **keywords)[source]

create a query object that constraints can be added to and then executed. The input arguments will initialize the query with the given values.

Parameters:

pos : SkyCoord class or sequence of two floats

the position of the center of the rectangular search region. assuming icrs decimal degrees if unit is not specified.

size : Quantity class or 2 element sequence of float

the full rectangular size of the search region along the RA and Dec directions. converted if it’s a iterable containing scalars, assuming decimal degrees.

size : Quantity class or scalar float

the size of the rectangular region around pos. assuming icrs decimal degrees if unit is not specified.

format : str

the image format(s) of interest. “all” (default) indicates all available formats; “graphic” indicates graphical images (e.g. jpeg, png, gif; not FITS); “metadata” indicates that no images should be returned–only an empty table with complete metadata; “image/*” indicates a particular image format where * can have values like “fits”, “jpeg”, “png”, etc.

intersect : str

a token indicating how the returned images should intersect with the search region; recognized values include:

COVERS select images that completely cover the search region
ENCLOSED select images that are complete enclosed by the region
OVERLAPS select any image that overlaps with the search region
CENTER select images whose center is within the search region

verbosity : int

an integer value that indicates the volume of columns to return in the result table. 0 means the minimum set of columsn, 3 means as many columns as are available.

**keywords :

additional parameters can be given via arbitrary case insensitive keyword arguments. Where there is overlap with the parameters set by the other arguments to this function, these keywords will override.

Returns:

SIAQuery

the query instance

See also

SIAQuery

search(pos, size=1.0, format='all', intersect='overlaps', verbosity=2, **keywords)[source]

submit a simple SIA query to this service with the given constraints.

This method is provided for a simple but typical SIA queries. For more complex queries, one should create an SIAQuery object via create_query()

Parameters:

pos : SkyCoord class or sequence of two floats

the position of the center of the rectangular search region. assuming icrs decimal degrees if unit is not specified.

size : Quantity class or 2 element sequence of float

the full rectangular size of the search region along the RA and Dec directions. converted if it’s a iterable containing scalars, assuming decimal degrees.

size : Quantity class or scalar float

the size of the rectangular region around pos. assuming icrs decimal degrees if unit is not specified.

format : str

the image format(s) of interest. “all” (default) indicates all available formats; “graphic” indicates graphical images (e.g. jpeg, png, gif; not FITS); “metadata” indicates that no images should be returned–only an empty table with complete metadata; “image/*” indicates a particular image format where * can have values like “fits”, “jpeg”, “png”, etc.

intersect : str

a token indicating how the returned images should intersect with the search region; recognized values include:

COVERS select images that completely cover the search region
ENCLOSED select images that are complete enclosed by the region
OVERLAPS select any image that overlaps with the search region
CENTER select images whose center is within the search region

verbosity : int

an integer value that indicates the volume of columns to return in the result table. 0 means the minimum set of columsn, 3 means as many columns as are available.

**keywords :

additional parameters can be given via arbitrary case insensitive keyword arguments. Where there is overlap with the parameters set by the other arguments to this function, these keywords will override.

Returns:

SIAResults

a container holding a table of matching catalog records

Raises:

DALServiceError

for errors connecting to or communicating with the service

DALQueryError

if the service responds with an error, including a query syntax error.