Simple Cone Search
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
ConeSearch-1.03 (20080222).
Its RFC page can be found
here and the sequence of PR leading to SCS-1.03 can be found in the
IVOA Document Repository.
Errata for this specification can be found
here.
Next page for this specification can be found
here.
Current Activities
A revision of the Simple Cone Search is in progress.
The
latest DAL internal Working Draft for ConeSearch-1.1 is attached to this page (dated 2019-11-15). Have a look at the changelog for an idea of the changes.
The drafting process can be followed on the
IVOA-std GitHub repo (replacing the former
volute, already in ivoatex format).
Discussion will happen on the DAL mailing list, DAL sessions, slack channels and other media, and possibly summarised on the
Cone Search 1.03 Next TWiki topic.