Archives

The server exposes 275 functions across 16 modules. Use the module name as module_name in astroquery_execute.

Archive	Module name	Functions	Description
SIMBAD	simbad	20	CDS astronomical database: basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for objects outside the solar system.
NED	ned	17	NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database for galaxies and extragalactic objects.
VizieR	vizier	12	CDS service giving access to published astronomical catalogs and data tables.
ADS	ads	3	NASA Astrophysics Data System literature search. See also the ads_query_compact and ads_get_paper tools.
MAST Observations	mast	27	Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes observations (HST, JWST, TESS, Kepler, …).
MAST Catalogs	mast_catalogs	19	Catalogs hosted at MAST (HSC, Pan-STARRS, TIC, GAIA, …).
HEASARC	heasarc	13	High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive (X-ray and gamma-ray missions).
IRSA	irsa	7	NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive.
NASA Exoplanet Archive	nea	9	Confirmed exoplanets, host stars and mission data.
Gaia	gaia	40	ESA Gaia mission archive (astrometry, photometry, spectra).
SDSS	sdss	18	Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging and spectroscopy.
ALMA	alma	23	Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array science archive.
ESA Hubble	esa_hubble	23	ESA Hubble Space Telescope archive (eHST).
ESA JWST	esa_jwst	26	ESA James Webb Space Telescope archive.
XMM-Newton	xmm_newton	11	ESA XMM-Newton Science Archive.
Coordinates (SkyCoord)	coordinates	7	Astropy SkyCoord helpers: name resolution, constellations, cross-matching.