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VOCATALOG

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Feb 2013
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NAME

vocatalog - Query VO catalog services for data

SYNOPSIS

vocatalog [<opts>] <service> [ <object> | <ra> <dec> ] [ <size> ]

OPTIONS

The vocatalog application accepts the following options:

-h, --help: Print a help summary to the terminal and exit. No processing is done following this flag.
All VODATA task options

DESCRIPTION

The vocatalog task is a convenience application built on top of the vodata application, logically it will only query for catalog data and will set the appropriate flags when calling vodata.

For a complete list of options and a description of the task behavior, see the VODATA man page.

RETURN STATUS

On exit the vocatalog task will return a zero indicating success, or a one indicating an error.

EXAMPLES

1) Query the GSC 2.3 catalog for stars a) within the 0.1 degree default search size around NGC 1234: b) around all positions contained in file 'pos.txt': c) for the list of objects given on the command line: d) query a list of services for a list of positions: e) print a count of results that would be returned from 3 services for each position in a file:

  % vocatalog gsc2.3 ngc1234                 (a)
  % vocatalog gsc2.3 pos.txt                 (b)
  % vocatalog gsc2.3 m31,m51,m93             (c)
  % vocatalog svcs.txt pos.txt               (d)
  % vocatalog hst,chandra,gsc2.3 pos.txt     (e)

2) Print a count of X-ray catalog data around Abell2712:

  % vocatalog -c -b x-ray any abell2712
  % vocatalog --count -b x-ray any abell2712

BUGS

No known bugs with this release.

Revision History

Feb 2013 - First public release

Author

Michael Fitzpatrick (fitz@noao.edu), Feb 2013

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