European Space Agency (ESA)

ESA Gaia Archive TAP API

Table Access Protocol (TAP) service for the ESA Gaia stellar catalogue, the most precise astrometric survey of the Milky Way. Enables ADQL (Astronomical Data Query Language) queries against Gaia Data Releases covering positions, parallaxes, proper motions, photometry, and radial velocities for over a billion stars. Accessible programmatically via the astroquery Python library.

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https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia-users/archive/programmatic-access

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: esa:gaia-tap
name: ESA Gaia Archive TAP API
description: Table Access Protocol (TAP) service for the ESA Gaia stellar catalogue, the most precise
  astrometric survey of the Milky Way. Enables ADQL (Astronomical Data Query Language) queries against
  Gaia Data Releases covering positions, parallaxes, proper motions, photometry, and radial velocities
  for over a billion stars. Accessible programmatically via the astroquery Python library.
humanURL: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia-users/archive/programmatic-access
baseURL: https://gea.esac.esa.int/tap-server/tap
tags:
- Astronomy
- GAIA
- TAP
- Stellar Catalogue
- Astrometry
tags_raw:
- Astronomy
- Gaia
- TAP
- Stellar Catalogue
- Astrometry
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia-users/archive/programmatic-access