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Obtain spectral lines from NED query #3446
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Hello,
it seems that it is not possible to obtain the spectral lines from a NED query.
(I am referring to these in the NED search, for clarity)
It seems that the photometry table is available via the get_table method, but this - as the name suggests - incudes only photometric measurements.
On the other hand, one can fetch the spectra with get_spectra.
But I'd like to access directly the line information.
Any workaround?
Best, and thank you!
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cosimoNigro commentedon Oct 23, 2025
My bad, apologies, the lines measurement are indeed in the
photometrytableIsn't this a bit (semantically) confusing?
Maybe I am wrong, but I understood "photometry" as a flux measurement in a finite band, as opposed to "spectroscopy" that measure lines through a spectrometer (I'm thinking to photometric vs spectroscopic surveys).
And indeed the tables are separated in NED.
If you deem the separation not relevant, I can close the issue.
P.S. would it be useful to add to the docs a few lines with examples of fetching fluxes or lines measurements?
Thanks again.
keflavich commentedon Oct 23, 2025
@cosimoNigro Thanks for pointing this out. If they are separated on the NED page, I'd say it does make sense to separate them in astroquery. A documentation or feature contribution would be welcome, though I defer to @bsipocz for thoughts on whether this is implementable.