Getting-started-with-Gaia
Bookmarks to resources about Gaia+
Data Access using TAP
Learn ADQL
- An ADQL cookbook to accompany Gaia DR1
- ADQL cheatsheet
- A collection of snippets
- Cross-matching to Gaia DR2
TAP Clients
- A simple TAP interface for python with a great tutorial
- astroquery has a TAP module and gaia module
- pyvo implements TAP service as one of many ways to access VO data services.
- TOPCAT is a full-fledged GUI application for interactive exploration of tabular data with access to many astronomical databases (including Gaia) built-in and much more.
Cross-matches
- Gaia archive already provides cross-match lookup tables for many surveys as well as the original catalogs of each survey, so one can just
JOIN
on appropriate ID columns. - Note that some external tables are under
gaiadr1
schema while some undergaiadr2
. - Gaia DR2 + Kepler/K2 cross-matches by Megan Bedell repo
Data manipulation tools
- astropy.coordinates for all kinds of coordinate transformations
- gaia_tools: Tools for working with the @ESAGaia data and related data sets
- pyia: a Python package for working with data from the Gaia mission
Parallax to distance
Dynamics
- amuse: Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment. repo
- gala: Galactic and gravitational dynamics in Python. repo
- galpy: Galactic Dynamics in python. repo
Stellar libraries/isochrones
- Morgan Fouesneu has written small python clients to get isochrone models easily from their websites: ezmist | ezpadova | ezdart
- isochrones provides common interface to isochrone models. Under active development and documentation incomplete at the moment.