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---+ Simple Cone Search

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This Simple Cone Search (ConeSearch) defines a simple query protocol for retrieving records from a catalog of astronomical sources. 
The query describes sky position and an angular distance, defining a cone on the sky. The response returns a list of astronomical sources from the catalog whose positions lie within the cone, formatted as a VOTable.

---++ Current Recommendation

Current IVOA Recommendation is [[http://www.ivoa.net/documents/cover/ConeSearch-20080222.html][ConeSearch-1.03 (20080222)]].

Its RFC page can be found [[ConeSearchV10RFC][here]] and the sequence of PR leading to SCS-1.03 can be found in the [[http://www.ivoa.net/documents][IVOA Document Repository]].

Errata for this specification can be found [[SCS-1_03-Errata][here]].

_Next_ page for this specification can be found [[SCS-1_03-Next][here]].

---++ Current Activities

A revision of the Simple Cone Search is in progress. 

The drafting process can be followed on the [[https://github.com/ivoa-std/ConeSearch][IVOA-std GitHub repo]] (replacing the former _volute_, already in ivoatex format).

Discussion will happen on the DAL mailing list, DAL sessions, GitHub repo issues, slack channels and other media, and possibly summarised on the [[SCS-1_03-Next][Cone Search 1.03 Next]] TWiki topic.

---++ Historical record

Since it was linked in the 1.03 Recommendation, but the URL was broken, a copy of the originating NVO conesearch specification, from which the ConeSearch started off, is now attached here:

   * [[%ATTACHURL%/NVO_conesearch_April2002.html][Conesearch definition]] (Roy Williams, Bob Hanish, Alex Szalay; Aprl 2002)

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Topic attachments
I	Attachment	History	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
html	NVO_conesearch_April2002.html	r1	manage	8.8 K	2020-08-20 - 10:48	MarcoMolinaro	NVO originating conesearch specification (attached here for preservation purposes)
pdf	WD-ConeSearch-1.1-20191115.pdf	r1	manage	508.0 K	2020-05-06 - 14:08	MarcoMolinaro	internal WD (Nov. '19) - from GitHub
pdf	WD-ConeSearch-1.1-20200116.pdf	r1	manage	326.5 K	2020-05-07 - 22:41	MarcoMolinaro
pdf	WD-SCS-1.1-20170714.pdf	r1	manage	541.2 K	2017-07-14 - 14:07	MarcoMolinaro	internal WD for SCS-1.1
pdf	WD-SCS-1.1-20171009.pdf	r1	manage	541.6 K	2017-10-09 - 12:10	MarcoMolinaro	internal WD for SCS-1.1 (Oct. '17)

Topic revision: r13 - 2023-11-08 - MarcoMolinaro

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