NasaExoplanetArchiveClass¶

class astroquery.nasa_exoplanet_archive.NasaExoplanetArchiveClass[source]¶

Bases: object

The Exoplanet Archive table returns lots of columns of data. A full description of the columns can be found here

Use the query_planet or query_star methods to get information about exoplanets via the Archive.

Attributes Summary

Methods Summary

`query_planet`(planet_name[, cache, …])	Download (and optionally cache) the NASA Exoplanet table for a certain planet.
`query_star`(host_name[, cache, …])	Download (and optionally cache) the NASA Exoplanet table for a certain planet.

Attributes Documentation

Methods Documentation

query_planet(planet_name, cache=True, show_progress=True, table_path=None, all_columns=False)[source]¶

Download (and optionally cache) the NASA Exoplanet table for a certain planet.

Parameters:

planet_name : str

Name of planet

cache : bool (optional)

Cache exoplanet table to local astropy cache? Default is True.

show_progress : bool (optional)

Show progress of exoplanet table download (if no cached copy is available). Default is True.

table_path : str (optional)

Path to a local table file. Default None will trigger a download of the table from the internet.

all_columns : bool (optional)

Return all available columns. The default returns only the columns in the default category at the link above.

Returns:

table : QTable

Table of one exoplanet’s properties.

query_star(host_name, cache=True, show_progress=True, table_path=None, all_columns=False)[source]¶