News about CDS services on Strasbourg astronomical Data Center

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="https://cds.unistra.fr/xsl/rss.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <channel> <title>News about CDS services on Strasbourg astronomical Data Center</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/</link> <description>Recent content in News about CDS services on Strasbourg astronomical Data Center</description> <generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator> <language>en</language> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 05:04:00 +0100</lastBuildDate> <atom:link href="https://cds.unistra.fr/news/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <item> <title>A new access to SIMBAD TAP in astroquery</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/04/05-access-simbad-tap-from-astroquery/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:30:06 +0100</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/04/05-access-simbad-tap-from-astroquery/</guid> <description>The latest version of the python library <a href="https://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">astroquery</a> (v0.4.7) ships a new access to SIMBAD TAP. The detailed documentation is on <a href="https://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/simbad/simbad.html#query-tap"target="_blank" rel="noopener">astroquery's page</a>, but here is a quick preview of some of the new functionalities:</description> </item> <item> <title>Easter Egg Hunt</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/03/28-easter-egg-hunt/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:30:06 +0100</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/03/28-easter-egg-hunt/</guid> <description>Happy Easter! Hunt down all eggs hidden in the English version of the entire CDS Website. Click on each egg you find. The egg will disappear and the corresponding top counter will be updated. Enjoy the surprise when you find all eggs of each category, but also all eggs of all categories (gamers, do not cheat...).</description> </item> <item> <title>CDS is hiring</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2025/03/06-cds-is-hiring/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:03:15 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2025/03/06-cds-is-hiring/</guid> <description>A “Documentalist” CDD position is available at the CDS (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg) to work on the VizieR service. As part of a team of documentalists, astronomers and computer scientists, you will be responsible for describing, indexing, standardising and checking tabular data from the main astrophysics journals to feed the VizieR database, with the aim of optimising their scientific use.</description> </item> <item> <title>Catalogs recently added in VizieR</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/catalogs-added/</link> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/catalogs-added/</guid> <description><h1 id="catalogs-added-between-01-feb-2025-and-01-mar-2025">Catalogs added between 01-Feb-2025 and 01-Mar-2025 <a href="#catalogs-added-between-01-feb-2025-and-01-mar-2025" class="quick-link" title="Quick link on this section."></a></h1>The collection of catalogs was enriched with 127 new catalogs. The full collection of catalogs is available <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat"target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</description> </item> <item> <title>VizieR 3D photometry viewer</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2025/02/05-vizier-3d-photometry-viewer/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:53:36 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2025/02/05-vizier-3d-photometry-viewer/</guid> <description>A new version of the <a href="https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/vizier/sed/doc/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">Photometry viewer</a>, which displays indexed photometry for a set of <a class="logo" href="&lt;&amp;VizA,u&gt;" title="VizieR - CDS&#39; library of astronomical catalogues" target="_blank"> <img class="logo small" src="https://cds.unistra.fr/img/cds/vizier.svg" alt="VizieR" /> </a> catalogs at a given position or object name (SED-like but around a position), is now available. The 3D version adds a temporal aspect to the fluxes. All feedback is welcome.</description> </item> <item> <title>VizieR patch</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2025/02/03-vizier-patch/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2025/02/03-vizier-patch/</guid> <description>The update fixes VizieR alerts and the filter detection in SED Viewer. <ul> <li>Manage alerts provided in VizieR and VOTable output. Remove false alerts, in particular alert on truncated Error.</li> </ul></description> </item> <item> <title>New VizieR version</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/10/21-new-vizier-version/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/10/21-new-vizier-version/</guid> <description>A <a href="https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR"target="_blank" rel="noopener">new VizieR version</a> is available. <ul> <li>Query VizieR catalogue using <a href="https://www.ivoa.net/documents/MOC/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">MOC</a></li> </ul> See the test moc page @ <a href="http://viz-beta.u-strasbg.fr/vizier/testmoc.html"target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://viz-beta.u-strasbg.fr/vizier/testmoc.html</a> Note: it is a beta version, moc query is not available for all VizieR catalogue yet</description> </item> <item> <title>SPECFIND 3.0 ingested into SIMBAD</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/10/08-specfind3-in-simbad/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:50:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/10/08-specfind3-in-simbad/</guid> <description>The SPECFIND cross-identifications based on 220 VizieR radio continuum tables (<a href="https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-3?-source=VIII/104"target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPECFIND 3.0 catalog</a>) are now ingested into SIMBAD. During this operation 180 thousand new radio continuum objects were created in SIMBAD and one million radio continuum identifiers were added to the database. Furthermore, the cross-identification between SPECFIND 3.0 and SIMBAD resulted in <a href="https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-3?-source=VIII/104/simbadz"target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 thousand new redshifts</a> for radio continuum sources.</description> </item> <item> <title>Service outage</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/06/20-service-outage/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:55:50 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/06/20-service-outage/</guid> <description>On June 24, between 5am and 6am UTC (7am-8am CEST), network maintenance will take place. All CDS services hosted at Strasbourg will be down during this maintenance. Mirrors will still be available.</description> </item> <item> <title>ASOV meeting</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/03/18-asov-news/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:32:30 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/03/18-asov-news/</guid> <description>Les journées <a href="https://asov.obspm.fr/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASOV</a> 2024 auront lieu les 18 et 19 mars 2024 dans l’amphithéâtre de l’Observatoire de Strasbourg. Elles seront suivies des journées semi-hackathon qui se termineront le 20 mars après-midi.</description> </item> <item> <title>New VizieR version</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/01/29-new-vizier-version/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:32:51 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2024/01/29-new-vizier-version/</guid> <description>A <a href="https://viz-beta.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR"target="_blank" rel="noopener">new VizieR version</a> is available. <ul> <li>Improved traceability and reproducibility of queries by annotating VOTable with terms defined in the latest version of <a href="https://www.ivoa.net/documents/DataOrigin/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">Data Origin</a>.</li> <li>Improved quality of URLs provided in VOTable when the <code>-meta.out=Dhul</code> option is set.</li> <li>Investigation of <a href="https://www.ivoa.net/documents/MIVOT/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">mivot</a>-based VOTable serialization for position propagation.</li> </ul></description> </item> <item> <title>Gaia FPV available in VizieR</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/10/10-gaia-fpv-available-in-vizier/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:53:03 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/10/10-gaia-fpv-available-in-vizier/</guid> <description>Gaia FPV <a href="https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=I/361"target="_blank" rel="noopener">I/361</a> is available ESA event: <a href="https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/fpr-events"target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/fpr-events</a></description> </item> <item> <title>DESI Legacy Survey DR10 HiPS available</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/10/10-desi-legacy-survey-dr10-hips-available/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:40:30 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/10/10-desi-legacy-survey-dr10-hips-available/</guid> <description>The HiPS images collection has been enriched with 4 new HiPS datasets created from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10: <ul> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DESI-legacy-surveys/DR10/CDS_P_DESI-Legacy-Surveys_DR10_color/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DESI Legacy Surveys color (g, r, i, z)</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DESI-legacy-surveys/DR10/CDS_P_DESI-Legacy-Surveys_DR10_g/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DESI Legacy Surveys g</a></description> </item> <item> <title>Fornax Deep Survey HiPS datasets available</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/08/04-fornax-deep-survey-hips-datasets-available/</link> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 08:09:52 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/08/04-fornax-deep-survey-hips-datasets-available/</guid> <description>The HiPS images collection has been enhanced with 5 new datasets corresponding to the Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) HiPS: <ul> <li><a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/FDS/CDS_P_FDS_DR1_color/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DR1 color composition</a></li> <li><a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/FDS/CDS_P_FDS_DR1_g/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DR1 band g</a></li> <li><a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/FDS/CDS_P_FDS_DR1_r/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DR1 band r</a></li> <li><a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/FDS/CDS_P_FDS_DR1_i/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DR1 band i</a></li> <li><a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/FDS/CDS_P_FDS_DR1_u/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DR1 band u</a></li> </ul> These new HiPS are published in the HiPS network and can be accessed from any HiPS client.</description> </item> <item> <title>VizieR update</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/06/22-vizier-update/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:35:15 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/06/22-vizier-update/</guid> <description>The update impacts the VizieR Simple Cone Search interface (<a href="https://www.ivoa.net/documents/cover/ConeSearch-20080222.html"target="_blank" rel="noopener">SCS </a> is a protocol of the Virtual Observatory) Now, the Simple Cone Search uses VOTable 1.4 (accepted for SCS since 2021-11 in an Errata).</description> </item> <item> <title>Service outage (June 2023)</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/06/22-service-outage-june-2023-/</link> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 08:01:23 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/06/22-service-outage-june-2023-/</guid> <description>A major reorganisation of the CDS machine room will take place on 27 and 28 June. Some of CDS services may be interrupted for a few hours during this period. If necessary, use the service mirrors (notably: simbad.harvard.edu, vizier.cfa.harvard.edu and alaskybis.cds.unistra.fr (HiPS)...).</description> </item> <item> <title>New VizieR version</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/05/23-new-vizier-version/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 15:55:21 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/05/23-new-vizier-version/</guid> <description>A new version of VizieR that enriches the VOTable output with metadata describing the origin of the data. The version extends also the constraint by target name with possible motions and epoch.</description> </item> <item> <title>DES DR2 HiPS available</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/03/29-des-dr2-hips-available/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:39:29 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/03/29-des-dr2-hips-available/</guid> <description>The <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05765"target="_blank" rel="noopener">second release of the Dark Energy Surve</a>y is now available as HiPS datasets: <ul> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DES/DR2/CDS_P_DES-DR2_ColorIRG/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DES DR2 color composition</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DES/DR2/CDS_P_DES-DR2_g/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DES DR2 band g</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DES/DR2/CDS_P_DES-DR2_r/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DES DR2 band r</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DES/DR2/CDS_P_DES-DR2_i/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DES DR2 band i</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DES/DR2/CDS_P_DES-DR2_z/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DES DR2 band z</a></description> </item> <item> <title>Aladin Lite v3 release</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/01/31-aladin-lite-v3-release/</link> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:08:27 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2023/01/31-aladin-lite-v3-release/</guid> <description>After months of thorough testing and bug fixing, the Aladin team is proud to announce the official release of Aladin Lite v3. The release consists of the following elements: <ul> <li> <a href="https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aladin Lite previewer</a> has been updated</description> </item> <item> <title>DECaPS DR2 HiPS available</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/12/21-decaps-dr2-hips-available/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:19:44 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/12/21-decaps-dr2-hips-available/</guid> <description>The second release of the <a href="http://decaps.skymaps.info/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DECam Plane Survey</a> is now available as HiPS datasets: <ul> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DECaPS/DR2/CDS_P_DECaPS_DR2_color"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DECaPS DR2 color composition</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DECaPS/DR2/CDS_P_DECaPS_DR2_g"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DECaPS DR2 band g</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DECaPS/DR2/CDS_P_DECaPS_DR2_r"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DECaPS DR2 band r</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DECaPS/DR2/CDS_P_DECaPS_DR2_i"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DECaPS DR2 band i</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DECaPS/DR2/CDS_P_DECaPS_DR2_z"target="_blank" rel="noopener">DECaPS DR2 band z</a></description> </item> <item> <title>Aladin Lite v3 talk at ADASS 2022</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/11/07-aladin-lite-v3-talk-at-adass-2022/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:49:40 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/11/07-aladin-lite-v3-talk-at-adass-2022/</guid> <description>The slides of the talk Aladin Lite v3 release: Instructions to embed it into your own applications, presented at the ADASS conference 2022 early November, are available online: <a href="https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/ADASS2022/"target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/11/07-aladin-lite-v3-talk-at-adass-2022/AL-v3-instructions.jpg"></a></description> </item> <item> <title>VizieR new version</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/10/10-vizier-new-version/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:05:07 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/10/10-vizier-new-version/</guid> <description>A new version is available. The VizieR service is now hosted by CDS domain (cds.unistra.fr). It includes a new global positional search, based on the IVOA <a href="https://ivoa.net/documents/MOC/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">MOCS standard</a>. Hosted domain. The domain &quot;u-strasbg.fr&quot; is obsoleted by the CDS domain &quot;cds.unistra.fr&quot;.</description> </item> <item> <title>Aladin Desktop v12 release</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/09/28-aladin-desktop-v12-release/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:10:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/09/28-aladin-desktop-v12-release/</guid> <description><img src="https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/09/28-aladin-desktop-v12-release/aladin-v12.jpg"> CDS is pleased to announce the release of Aladin Desktop version 12. This new major release includes: <ul> <li> Planetary data support : HiPS, MOCs, catalogues,... (<a href="https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/java/FAQ.htx#planet"target="_blank" rel="noopener">more...</a>). </li> <li> Cone search update facility (<a href="https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/java/FAQ.htx#csredo"target="_blank" rel="noopener">more...</a>)</description> </item> <item> <title>VizieR patch</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/09/19-vizier-patch/</link> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:46:41 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/09/19-vizier-patch/</guid> <description>The last VizieR release is available. <ul> <li> VizieR allows to compute positions into another coordinate System (ICRS, GALACTIC, FK4, Ecliptic) taking into account proper motions. It is now also possible to ignore the proper motions (-out.add=J2000/0.)</description> </item> <item> <title>Aladin Lite v3 beta test</title> <link>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/06/29-aladin-lite-v3-beta-test/</link> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 09:04:22 +0000</pubDate> <guid>https://cds.unistra.fr/news/2022/06/29-aladin-lite-v3-beta-test/</guid> <description>You are invited to beta test Aladin Lite version 3, available at the following URL: <a href="https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/v3-beta/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/v3-beta/</a> Feel free to send your comments and feedbacks to <a href="mailto:matthieu.baumann@astro.unistra.fr">matthieu.baumann@astro.unistra.fr</a> and <a href="mailto:thomas.boch@astro.unistra.fr">thomas.boch@astro.unistra.fr</a> The page <a href="https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/v3-beta/news/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/v3-beta/news/</a> will give you the details on the new features developed for this version.</description> </item> </channel> </rss>

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