Accessing HEASARC Catalogs

Here we include tutorials related to finding, searching, and using HEASARC-served catalogs.

HEASARC catalog tutorials

• Find specific HEASARC catalogs using Python
  • Learning Goals
  • Introduction
  • Imports
  • 1. Retrieve the name and description of every HEASARC catalog
  • 2. Examining the table of catalogs
  • 3. Filter the table of catalogs
  • 4. Search for catalogs using keywords [recommended]
  • 5. What next?
  • About this notebook
• Exploring the contents of HEASARC catalogs using Python
  • Learning Goals
  • Introduction
  • Imports
  • 1. Listing a HEASARC catalog’s columns
  • 2. Retrieving the entire contents of a HEASARC catalog
  • 3. Retrieving a subset of a HEASARC catalog
  • 4. Interacting with HEASARC catalog contents
  • About this notebook
• Cross-matching local and HEASARC catalogs using Python
  • Learning Goals
  • Introduction
  • Imports
  • 1. Prepare our sample for cross-matching to a HEASARC catalog
  • 2. The HEASARC TAP service
  • 3. Construct a matching query
  • 4. Run the cross-match and retrieve the results
  • About this notebook