The MAST Pan-STARRS catalog API provides an easy-to-use cross-match capability for Pan-STARRS. This page shows examples using curl and Python.
The MAST Pan-STARRS catalog search interface includes a cross-match capability. This requires several steps:
Doing this for a single source list is simple, but it can be tedious if you need to do it more than once.
The catalogs API can be used to do this same query with a single curl command. Here is a sample command that cross-matches the PS1 catalog with a list of positions in the file sn2005.csv:
curl -F radius=0.000833 -F 'file=@sn2005.csv' \ -X POST https://catalogs.mast.stsci.edu/api/v0.1/panstarrs/mean/crossmatch/upload.csv > sn2005.ps1.csv |
This uses the crossmatch/upload.csv service to match the PS1 Mean Object catalog to a radius of 0.000833 degrees = 3 arcsec around the positions listed in the file sn2005.csv. Here is a sample of a few lines from the file:
ra,dec,name 37.68021,-2.93883,SN 2005A 268.70342,71.54292,SN 2005B 168.87258,60.75153,SN 2005C |
The command assumes that the input file is in the current working directory; you can also specify the full path to files that are not in the current directory. Be sure to leave the initlal '@' character, which tells curl that the contents of the file are to be uploaded.
This command can be easily modified to change the filename and search radius. See the crossmatch API documentation for information on additional search parameters, file size and radius limits, changing the names of the ra and dec columns, etc. You can change the data format to JSON or VOTABLE by modifying the URL to 'upload.json' or 'upload.votable'.
Other curl command options may also be useful (e.g., --compressed to allow the file to be compressed to speed the data transfer.)
A similar approach can be used with other tools that allow uploading files in POST commands. For example, here is Python 3 code using the requests module:
import requests r = 0.000833 # radius in degrees filename = 'sn2005.csv' url = 'https://catalogs.mast.stsci.edu/api/v0.1/panstarrs/mean/crossmatch/upload.csv' r = requests.post(url, params=dict(radius=r), files=dict(file=open(filename,'rb'))) print(r.text, end='') # print output without trailing newline |