Astroquery

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- New tool: MPC module can now request comet and asteroid ephemerides from the
Minor Planet Ephemeris Service, and return a table of observatory codes and
coordinates. [1177]
- New tool ``CDS``: module to query the MOCServer, a CDS tool providing MOCs
and meta data of various data-sets. [1111]
- New tool ``JPLSDB``: New module for querying JPL's Small Body Database
Browser [1214]

- ATOMIC: fix several bugs for using Quantities for the range parameters.
[1187]
- CADC: added the get_collections method. [1482]
- ESASKY: get_maps() accepts dict or list of (name, Table) pairs as input
table list. [1167]
- ESO: Catch exception on login when keyring fails to get a valid storage.
[1198]
- ESO: Add option to retrieve calibrations associated to data. [1184]
- FERMI: Switch to HTTPS [1241]
- IRSA: Added ``selcols`` keyword. [1296]
- JPLHorizons: Fix for missing total absolute magnitude or phase coefficient
for comets [1151]
- JPLHorizons: Fix queries for major solar system bodies when sub-observer or
sub-solar positions are requested. [1268]
- JPLHorizons: Fix bug with airmass column. [1284]
- JPLSpec: New query service for JPL Molecular Spectral Catalog. [1170]
- JPLHorizons: JPL server protocol and epoch range bug fixes, user-defined
location and additional ephemerides information added [1207]
- HITRAN: use class-based API [1028]
- MAST: Enable converting list of products into S3 uris [1126]
- MAST: Adding Tesscut interface for accessing TESS cutouts. [1264]
- MAST: Add functionality for switching to auth.mast when it goes live [1256]
- MAST: Support downloading data from multiple missions from the cloud [1275]
- MAST: Updating HSC and Gaia catalog calls (bugfix) [1203]
- MAST: Fixing bug in catalog criteria queries, and updating remote tests.
[1223]
- MAST: Fixing mrp_only but and changing default to False [1238]
- MAST: TESS input catalog bugfix [1297]
- NASA_ADS: Use new API [1162]
- Nasa Exoplanet Arhive: Add option to return all columns. [1183]
- SPLATALOGUE: Minor - utils & tests updated to match upstream change [1236]
- utils.tap: Fix Gaia units. [1161]
- VO_CONESEARCH: Service validator now uses new STScI VAO TAP registry. [1114]
- WFAU: Added QSL constraints parameter [1259]
- XMATCH: default timeout has changed from 60s to 300s. [1137]

- Re-enable sandboxing / preventing internet access during non-remote tests,
which has been unintentionally disabled for a potentially long time. [1274]
- File download progress bar no longer displays when Astropy log level is set
to "WARNING", "ERROR", or "CRITICAL". [1188]
- utils: fix bug in ``parse_coordinates``, now strings that can be interpreted
as coordinates are not sent through Sesame. When unit is not provided,
degrees is now explicitely assumed. [1252]
- JPLHorizons: fix for 1201 issue in elements() and vectors(), test added
- JPLHorizons: fix for missing H, G values [1332]
- JPLHorizons: warn if URI is longer than 2000 chars, docs updated
- JPLSBDB: fix for missing value, test added

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- New tool ``jplhorizons``: JPL Horizons service to obtain ephemerides,
orbital elements, and state vectors for Solar System objects. [1023]
- New tool ``mpc``: MPC Module to query the Minor Planet Center web service.
[1064, 1077]
- New tool ``oac``: Open Astronomy Catalog API to obtain data products on
supernovae, TDEs, and kilonovae. [1053]
- New tool ``wfau`` and ``vsa``: Refactor of the UKIDSS query tool add full
WFAU support. [984]
- ALMA: Adding support for band and polarization selection. [1108]
- HEASARC: Add additional functionality and expand query capabilities. [1047]
- GAIA: Default URL switched to DR2 and made configurable. [1112]
- IRSA: Raise exceptions for exceeding output table size limit. [1032]
- IRSA_DUST: Call over https. [1069]
- LAMDA: Fix writer for Windows on Python 3. [1059]
- MAST: Removing filesize checking due to unreliable filesize reporting in
the database. [1050]
- MAST: Added Catalogs class. [1049]
- MAST: Enable downloading MAST HST data from S3. [1040]
- SPLATALOGUE: Move to https as old HTTP post requests were broken. [1076]
- UKIDSS: Update to DR10 as default database. [984]
- utils.TAP: Add tool to check for phase of background job. [1073]
- utils.TAP: Added redirect handling to sync jobs. [1099]
- utils.TAP: Fix jobsIDs assignment. [1105]
- VO_CONESEARCH: URL for validated services have changed. Old URL should still
redirect but it is deprecated. [1033]

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- New tool: Exoplanet Orbit Catalog, NASA Exoplanet Archive [771]
- ESO: The upstream API changed. We have adapted. [970]
- ESO: Added 'destination' keyword to Eso.retrieve_data(), to download files
to a specific location (other than the cache). [976]
- ESO: Fixed Eso.query_instrument() to use instrument specific query forms
(it was using the main form before). [976]
- ESO: Implemented Eso.query_main() to query all instruments with the main form
(even the ones without a specific form). [976]
- ESO: Disabled caching for all Eso.retrieve_data() operations. [976]
- ESO: Removed deprecated Eso.data_retrieval() and Eso.query_survey().
Please use Eso.retrieve_data() and Eso.query_surveys() instead. [1019]
- ESO: Added configurable URL. [1017]
- ESO: Fixed string related bugs. [981]
- MAST: Added convenience function to list available missions. [947]
- MAST: Added login capabilities [982]
- MAST: Updated download functionality [1004]
- MAST: Fixed no results bug [1003]
- utils.tap: Made tkinter optional dependency. [983]
- utils.tap: Fixed a bug in load_tables. [990]
- vo_conesearch: Fixed bad query for service that cannot accept '&&'
in URL. [993]
- vo_conesearch: Removed broken services from default list. [997, 1002]
- IRSA Dust: fix units in extinction by band table. [1016]
- IRSA: Updated links that switched to use https. [1010]
- NRAO: Allow multiple configurations, telescopes in queries [1020]
- SIMBAD: adding 'get_query_payload' kwarg to all public methods to return
the request parameters. [962]
- CosmoSim: Fixed login service. [999]
- utils: upgrade ``prepend_docstr_noreturns`` to work with multiple
sections, and thus rename it to ``prepend_docstr_nosections``. [988]
- Vizier: find_catalogs will now respect UCD specifications [1000]
- ATOMIC: Added ability to select which rows are returned from the atomic
line database. [1006]
- ESASKY: Added Windows support, various bugfixes. [1001, 977]
- GAMA: Updated to use the newer DR3 release. [1005]

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- New tool: MAST - added module to access the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive
for Space Telescopes. [920, 937]
- LAMDA: Add function to write LAMDA-formatted Tables to a datafile. [887]
- ALMA: Fix to queries and tests that were broken by changes in the archive.
Note that as of April 2017, the archive is significantly broken and missing
many data sets. [888]
- SIMBAD: "dist" is now available as a valid votable field. [849]
Additional minor fixes. [932,892]
- SHA: fix bug with the coordinate handling. [885]
- ``turn_off_internet`` and ``turn_on_internet`` is not available any more
from the main ``utils`` namespace, use them directly from
``utils.testing_tools``. [940]
- Added the 'verify' kwarg to ``Astroquery.request`` to provide a workaround
for services that have HTTPS URLs but missing certificates. [928]

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- New tool: Gaia - added module to access the European Space Agency Gaia
Archive. [836]
- New tool: VO Cone Search - added module to access Virtual Observatory's
Simple Cone Search. This is ported from ``astropy.vo``. [859]
- New utility: TAP/TAP+ - added Table Access Protocol utility and the ESAC
Science Data Centre (ESDC) extension. [836]
- Fix VizieR to respect specification to return default columns only [792]
- SIMBAD queries allow multiple configurable parameters [820]
- Add a capability to resume partially-completed downloads for services that
support the http 'range' keyword. Currently applied to ESO and ALMA
[812,876]
- SIMBAD now supports vectorized region queries. A list of coordinates can be
sent to SIMBAD simultaneously. Users will also be warned if they submit
queries with >10000 entries, which is the SIMBAD-recommended upper limit.
Also, SIMBAD support has noted that any IP submitting >6 queries/second
will be soft-banned, so we have added a warning to this effect in the
documentation [833]
- ALMA: Fix to always use https as the archive now requires it. [814, 828]
- ESASky: Fix various issues related to remote API changes. [805, 817]
- ESASky: Corrected Herschel filter indexing. [844]
- ESO: Fix picking issue with simple ``query_survey()`` queries. [801]
- ESO: Fix FEROS and HARPS instrument queries. [840]
- NRAO: Change default radius from 1 degree to 1 arcmin. [813]

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- New tool: basic HITRAN queries support [617]
- Fix 737, an issue with broken ALMA archive tables, via a hack [775]
- Correct HEASARC tool, which was sending incorrect data to the server [774]
- Fix NIST issue 714 which led to badly-parsed tables [773]
- NRAO archive tool allows user logins and HTML-based queries [767, 780]
- ALMA allows kwargs as input, and various small fixes [785, 790, 782]
- XMatch caching bug fixed [789]
- Various fixes to ESASky [779, 772, 770]
- New tool: VAMDC-cdms interface [658]
- Fix issue with exclude keyword in Splatalogue queries [616]