Develop a method for querying a target by Gaia or other identifier. This may require connecting to SIMBAD because Gaia does not support direct query by common name. This stackoverflow response seems to be on point: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.where.html
The minimal example
from astroquery.simbad import Simbad
result_table = Simbad.query_objectids("eta carinae")
for x in result_table:
if 'gaia' in x['ID'].lower():
print(x['ID'])
returns the string 'Gaia DR3 5350358584482202880' which includes the Gaia ID
Subsequently, it is possible to query Gaia with the following minimal example
from astroquery.gaia import Gaia
job = Gaia.launch_job("SELECT ra, dec, phot_g_mean_mag, phot_bp_mean_mag, phot_rp_mean_mag FROM gaiadr3.gaia_source WHERE source_id = 5350358584482202880")
job.results returns a table containing the RA, dec and magnitudes of eta carinae.
Based on this example, it should be possible for the user to input a target by name, and return parameters which can be used to set the target parameters.
Develop a method for querying a target by Gaia or other identifier. This may require connecting to SIMBAD because Gaia does not support direct query by common name. This stackoverflow response seems to be on point: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.where.html
The minimal example
returns the string
'Gaia DR3 5350358584482202880'which includes the Gaia IDSubsequently, it is possible to query Gaia with the following minimal example
job.resultsreturns a table containing the RA, dec and magnitudes of eta carinae.Based on this example, it should be possible for the user to input a target by name, and return parameters which can be used to set the target parameters.