Ubuntu Manpage: stilts-cone - Executes a Cone Search-like query

NAME

       stilts-cone - Executes a Cone Search-like query

SYNOPSIS

       stilts cone [serviceurl=<url-value>] [lon=<degrees>] [lat=<degrees>] [radius=<degrees>]
                   [skysys=icrs|fk5|fk4|galactic|supergalactic|ecliptic]
                   [servicetype=cone|sia|ssa] [verb=1|2|3] [compress=true|false]
                   [dataformat=<value>]

DESCRIPTION

       cone is a utility to execute one of the "Simple" positional  DAL  query  operations  on  a
       remote  server:  Simple  Cone  Search, Simple Image Access (SIA) or Simple Spectral Access
       (SSA). The job it does is not very complicated: given a base URL for a service of  one  of
       these  types  and  values  for  the central position and radius required, it assembles the
       query URL in the form required for the relevant protocol,  retrieves  the  result  of  the
       query,  and  turns it into a table which can be operated on with the usual STILTS pipeline
       operations.

OPTIONS

serviceurl=<url-value>
The base part of a URL which defines the query to be made. Additional parameters
will be appended to this using CGI syntax ("name=value", separated by '&'
characters). If this value does not end in either a '?' or a '&', one will be added
as appropriate.

lon=<degrees>
Central longitude position for cone search. By default this is the Right Ascension,
but depending on the value of the skysys parameter it may be in a different sky
system.

lat=<degrees>
Central latitude position for cone search. By default this is the Declination, but
depending on the value of the skysys parameter it may be in a different sky system.

radius=<degrees>
Search radius in degrees.

skysys=icrs|fk5|fk4|galactic|supergalactic|ecliptic
Sky coordinate system used to interpret the lon and lat parameters. If the value is
ICRS (the default) the provided values are assumed to be Right Ascension and
Declination and are sent unchanged; for other values they will be converted from
the named system into RA and Dec first.

servicetype=cone|sia|ssa
Selects the type of data access service to contact. Most commonly this will be the
Cone Search service itself, but there are one or two other possibilities:

* cone: Cone Search protocol - returns a table of objects found near each
location. See Cone Search standard.

* sia: Simple Image Access protocol - returns a table of images near each
location. See SIA standard.

* ssa: Simple Spectral Access protocol - returns a table of spectra near each
location. See SSA standard.

verb=1|2|3
Verbosity level of the tables returned by the query service. A value of 1 indicates
the bare minimum and 3 indicates all available information.

compress=true|false
If true, the service is requested to provide HTTP-level compression for the
response stream (Accept-Encoding header is set to "gzip", see RFC 2616). This does
not guarantee that compression will happen but if the service honours this request
it may result in a smaller amount of network traffic at the expense of more
processing on the server and client.

dataformat=<value>
Indicates the format of data objects described in the returned table. The meaning
of this is dependent on the value of the servicetype parameter:

* servicetype=cone: not used

* servicetype=sia: gives the MIME type of images referenced in the output table,
also special values "GRAPHIC" and "ALL".(value of the SIA FORMAT parameter)

* servicetype=ssa: gives the MIME type of spectra referenced in the output table,
also special values "votable", "fits", "compliant", "graphic", "all", and
others (value of the SSA FORMAT parameter).

VERSION

       STILTS version 3.2-debian

       This  is  the  Debian  version  of Stilts, which lack the support of some file formats and
       network protocols. For differences see
       file:///usr/share/doc/stilts/README.Debian

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