This is a python interface for querying the ESO archive web service. For now, it supports the following:
The following packages are required for the use of this module:
Whereas querying the ESO database is fully open, accessing actual datasets requires authentication with the ESO User Portal (https://www.eso.org/sso/login). This authentication is performed directly with the provided login() command, as illustrated in the example below. This method uses your keyring to securely store the password in your operating system. As such you should have to enter your correct password only once, and later be able to use this package for automated interaction with the ESO archive.
>>> from astroquery.eso import Eso
>>> eso = Eso()
>>> # First example: TEST is not a valid username, it will fail
>>> eso.login("TEST")
TEST, enter your ESO password:
Authenticating TEST on www.eso.org...
Authentication failed!
>>> # Second example: pretend ICONDOR is a valid username
>>> eso.login("ICONDOR", store_password=True)
ICONDOR, enter your ESO password:
Authenticating ICONDOR on www.eso.org...
Authentication successful!
>>> # After the first login, your password has been stored
>>> eso.login("ICONDOR")
Authenticating ICONDOR on www.eso.org...
Authentication successful!
As shown above, your password can be stored by the keyring module, if you pass the argument store_password=False to Eso.login. For security reason, storing the password is turned off by default.
MAKE SURE YOU TRUST THE MACHINE WHERE YOU USE THIS FUNCTIONALITY!!!
NB: You can delete your password later with the command keyring.delete_password('astroquery:www.eso.org', 'username').
You can further automate the authentication process by configuring a default username. The astroquery configuration file, which can be found following the procedure detailed in astropy.config, needs to be edited by adding username = ICONDOR in the [eso] section.
When configured, the username in the login() call can be omitted as follows:
>>> from astroquery.eso import Eso
>>> eso = Eso()
>>> eso.login()
ICONDOR, enter your ESO password:
NB: If an automatic login is configured, other Eso methods can log you in automatically when needed.
The direct retrieval of datasets is better explained with a running example, continuing from the authentication example above. The first thing to do is to identify the instrument to query. The list of available instruments can be queried with the list_instruments() method.
>>> eso.list_instruments()
['fors1', 'fors2', 'vimos', 'omegacam', 'hawki', 'isaac', 'naco', 'visir', 'vircam',
'apex', 'uves', 'giraffe', 'xshooter', 'crires', 'kmos', 'sinfoni', 'amber', 'midi']
In the example above, 18 instruments are available, they correspond to the instrument listed on the following web page: http://archive.eso.org/cms/eso-data/instrument-specific-query-forms.html.
Once an instrument is chosen, midi in our case, the query options for that instrument can be inspected by setting the help=True keyword of the query_instrument() method.
>>> eso.query_instrument('midi', help=True)
List of the column_filters parameters accepted by the amber instrument query.
The presence of a column in the result table can be controlled if prefixed with a [ ] checkbox.
The default columns in the result table are shown as already ticked: [x].
Target Information
------------------
target:
resolver: simbad (SIMBAD name), ned (NED name), none (OBJECT as specified by the observer)
coord_sys: eq (Equatorial (FK5)), gal (Galactic)
coord1:
coord2:
box:
format: sexagesimal (Sexagesimal), decimal (Decimal)
[x] wdb_input_file:
Observation and proposal parameters
------------------------------------
[ ] night:
stime:
starttime: 01 (01 hrs [UT]), 02 (02 hrs [UT]), 03 (03 hrs [UT]), 04 (04 hrs [UT]), 05 (05 hrs [UT]), 06 (06 hrs [UT]), 07 (07 hrs [UT]), 08 (08 hrs [UT]), 09 (09 hrs [UT]), 10 (10 hrs [UT]), 11 (11 hrs [UT]), 12 (12 hrs [UT]), 13 (13 hrs [UT]), 14 (14 hrs [UT]), 15 (15 hrs [UT]), 16 (16 hrs [UT]), 17 (17 hrs [UT]), 18 (18 hrs [UT]), 19 (19 hrs [UT]), 20 (20 hrs [UT]), 21 (21 hrs [UT]), 22 (22 hrs [UT]), 23 (23 hrs [UT]), 24 (24 hrs [UT])
etime:
endtime: 01 (01 hrs [UT]), 02 (02 hrs [UT]), 03 (03 hrs [UT]), 04 (04 hrs [UT]), 05 (05 hrs [UT]), 06 (06 hrs [UT]), 07 (07 hrs [UT]), 08 (08 hrs [UT]), 09 (09 hrs [UT]), 10 (10 hrs [UT]), 11 (11 hrs [UT]), 12 (12 hrs [UT]), 13 (13 hrs [UT]), 14 (14 hrs [UT]), 15 (15 hrs [UT]), 16 (16 hrs [UT]), 17 (17 hrs [UT]), 18 (18 hrs [UT]), 19 (19 hrs [UT]), 20 (20 hrs [UT]), 21 (21 hrs [UT]), 22 (22 hrs [UT]), 23 (23 hrs [UT]), 24 (24 hrs [UT])
[x] prog_id:
[ ] prog_type: % (Any), 0 (Normal), 1 (GTO), 2 (DDT), 3 (ToO), 4 (Large), 5 (Short), 6 (Calibration)
[ ] obs_mode: % (All modes), s (Service), v (Visitor)
[ ] pi_coi:
pi_coi_name: PI_only (as PI only), none (as PI or CoI)
[ ] prog_title:
Only the first two sections, of the parameters accepted by the midi instrument query, are shown in the example above: Target Information and Observation and proposal parameters.
As stated at the beginning of the help message, the parameters accepted by the query are given just before the first : sign (e.g. target, resolver, stime, etime...). When a parameter is prefixed by [ ], the presence of the associated column in the query result can be controlled.
Note: the instrument query forms can be opened in your web browser directly using the show_form option of the query_instrument() method. This should also help with the identification of acceptable keywords.
It is now time to query the midi instrument for datasets. In the following example, observations of target NGC 4151 between 2007-01-01 and 2008-01-01 are searched, and the query is configured to return the observation date column.
>>> table = eso.query_instrument('midi', column_filters={'target':'NGC 4151', 'stime':'2007-01-01', 'etime':'2008-01-01'}, columns=['night'])
>>> print(len(table))
38
>>> print(table.columns)
<TableColumns names=('Object','Target Ra Dec','Target l b','DATE OBS','ProgId','DP.ID','OB.ID','OBS.TARG.NAME','DPR.CATG','DPR.TYPE','DPR.TECH','INS.MODE','DIMM S-avg')>
>>> table.pprint(max_width=100)
Object Target Ra Dec Target l b ... INS.MODE DIMM S-avg
----------------------- ----------------------- -------------------- ... -------- -----------
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.69 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.68 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.68 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.69 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.69 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.74 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.69 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.66 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.64 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.60 [0.01]
NGC4151 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.59 [0.01]
... ... ... ... ... ...
TRACK,OBJECT,DISPERSED 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.70 [0.01]
TRACK,OBJECT,DISPERSED 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.72 [0.01]
SEARCH,OBJECT,DISPERSED 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.62 [0.01]
SEARCH,OBJECT,DISPERSED 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.61 [0.01]
SEARCH,OBJECT,DISPERSED 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.54 [0.01]
SEARCH,OBJECT,DISPERSED 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.53 [0.01]
TRACK,OBJECT,DISPERSED 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.51 [0.01]
TRACK,OBJECT,DISPERSED 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.51 [0.01]
TRACK,OBJECT,DISPERSED 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.51 [0.01]
PHOTOMETRY,OBJECT 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.54 [0.01]
PHOTOMETRY,OBJECT 12:10:32.63 +39:24:20.7 155.076719 75.063247 ... STARINTF 0.54 [0.01]
And indeed, 38 datasets are found, and the DATE OBS column is in the result table.
Continuing from the previous example, the first two datasets are selected, using their data product IDs DP.ID, and retrieved from the ESO archive.
>>> data_files = eso.retrieve_data(table['DP.ID'][:2])
Staging request...
Downloading files...
Downloading MIDI.2007-02-07T07:01:51.000.fits.Z...
Downloading MIDI.2007-02-07T07:02:49.000.fits.Z...
Done!
The file names, returned in data_files, points to the decompressed datasets (without the .Z extension) that have been locally downloaded. They are ready to be used with fits.
Only a small subset of the keywords presents in the data products can be obtained with query_instrument(). There is however a way to get the full primary header of the FITS data products, using get_headers(). This method is detailed in the example below, continuing with the previously obtained table.
>>> table_headers = eso.get_headers(table['DP.ID'])
>>> table_headers.pprint()
ARCFILE BITPIX ... TELESCOP UTC
--------------------------------- ------ ... ------------ -------
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:01:51.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 25300.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:02:49.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 25358.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:03:30.695.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 25358.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:05:47.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 25538.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:06:28.695.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 25538.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:09:03.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 25732.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:09:44.695.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 25732.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:13:09.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 25978.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:13:50.695.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 25978.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:15:55.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 26144.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:16:36.694.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 26144.5
... ... ... ... ...
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:51:13.485.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 28190.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:52:27.992.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 28190.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:56:21.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 28572.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:57:35.485.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 28572.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T07:59:46.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 28778.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T08:01:00.486.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 28778.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T08:03:42.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 29014.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T08:04:56.506.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 29014.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T08:06:11.013.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 29014.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T08:08:19.000.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 29288.5
MIDI.2007-02-07T08:09:33.506.fits 16 ... ESO-VLTI-U23 29288.5
>>> len(table_headers.columns)
340
As shown above, for each data product ID (DP.ID), the full header (570 columns in our case) of the archive FITS file is collected. In the above table table_headers, there are as many rows as in the column table['DP.ID'].
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