ESO TAP_CAT: a TAP service to query the astronomical catalogs generated by ESO observers, including the catalogs of the ESO Public Surveys.
Short Name:
ESO TAP_CAT
Date:
26 Jun 2024 14:26:53
Publisher:
European Southern Observatory
Description:
TAP_CAT is the ESO Science Archive service that provides programmatic access onto the
astronomical catalogues produced by the principal investigators of ESO programmes.
The Table Access Protocol (TAP) lets you execute queries against our astronomical catalogues. The queries must adhere to the Astronomical Data Query Language (ADQL, IVOA standard).
Table Upload is not currently supported, though it is foreseen for a next release.
This service provides limited support for spatial queries; only CONTAINS and CIRCLE are supported, as in this example:
CONTAINS(point('', catalog_rightascension, catalog_declination), CIRCLE('', user_defined_rightascension, user_defined_declination, userdefined_radius))= 1.
Please note that CONTAINS(...)=0 is not supported.
A sister service (Catalog Facility: https://www.eso.org/qi) provides a web interface to the same collection of catalogues; the web interface implements a well-defined but limited query model, while instead TAP_CAT provides full ADQL support, allowing users to build their own query constraints using expressions, combining different columns, or using boolean operators (NOT, OR, etc.).
A sibling service (TAP_OBS, endpoint: http://archive.eso.org/tap_obs) exists and can be used to query the raw and reduced data, and the atmospheric measurements taken at the La Silla Paranal Observatory (including APEX).
The EVN Data Archive's TAP end point. The Table Access
Protocol (TAP) lets you execute queries against our database tables,
inspect various metadata, and upload your own data. It is thus the
VO's premier way to access public data holdings.
Tables exposed through this endpoint include: main from the evn schema, obscore from the ivoa schema, columns, groups, key_columns, keys, schemas, tables from the tap_schema schema.
The FAI archives's TAP end point. The Table Access
Protocol (TAP) lets you execute queries against our database tables,
inspect various metadata, and upload your own data. It is thus the
VO's premier way to access public data holdings.
Tables exposed through this endpoint include: main from the fai_agn schema, main from the grb_photometry schema, obscore from the ivoa schema, main from the maksutov_50_telescope schema, main from the schmidt_telescope_lc schema, data from the spectra_agn_archive schema, columns, groups, key_columns, keys, schemas, tables from the tap_schema schema.
Spectra from the Flash and Heros Echelle spectrographs developed at
Landessternwarte Heidelberg and mounted at La Silla and various other
observatories. The data mostly contains spectra of OB stars. Heros was
the name of the instrument after Flash got a second channel in 1995.
Spectra from the Flash and Heros Echelle spectrographs developed at
Landessternwarte Heidelberg and mounted at La Silla and various other
observatories. The data mostly contains spectra of OB stars. Heros was
the name of the instrument after Flash got a second channel in 1995.
This schema contains data re-published from the official
Gaia mirrors (such as ivo://uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/tap) either to
support combining its data with local tables (the various Xlite tables)
or to make the data more accessible to VO clients (e.g., epoch fluxes).
Other Gaia-related data is found in, among others, the gdr2dist, gdr3mock,
gdr3spec, gedr3auto, gedr3dist, gedr3mock, and gedr3spur schemas.