WFAU Queries (astroquery.wfau)

The Wide Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU; www.roe.ac.uk/ifa/wfau) hosts both the Vista Science Archive (VSA, VSA Queries (astroquery.vsa)) and the UKIDSS archive (UKIDSS Queries (astroquery.ukidss)). Please see the UKIDSS documentation pages for instructions and examples.

Reference/API

astroquery.wfau Package

WFAU Image and Catalog Query Tool

Revision History

The UKIDSS query tool was refactored using common API as a part of Google Summer of Code 2013. It was then refactored again to generically apply to any WFAU archives in late 2017.

Originally contributed by:

Thomas Robitalle (thomas.robitaille@gmail.com)

Adam Ginsburg (adam.g.ginsburg@gmail.com)

Functions

clean_catalog(wfau_catalog, *[, clean_band, ...])

Attempt to remove 'bad' entries in a catalog.

Classes

BaseWFAUClass(*[, username, password, ...])

The BaseWFAUQuery class.