Hello!
I hope this is the right place to ask questions such as this.
I am attempting to query SIMBAD using Astropy to determine which stars in a set are flagged as spectroscopic binaries, eruptive variable stars, etc. I can see these flags in the web interface as strings separated by two dashes from the star name under “Basic data”, but I haven’t been able to find a way to return that string programmatically using Astropy. The usual Simbad.query_object(star_name) does not return this information. Thanks in advance; any pointers are much appreciated!
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You can set which fields are returned. To see what fields are available, use
Simbad.list_votable_fields().
Browse that list and hopefully the one you need is there!
Add it to the output with Simbad.add_votable_fields(‘field_i_need’)’).
More details here:
https://astroquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/simbad/simbad.html#specifying-which-votable-fields-to-include-in-the-result
Hope this helps!
Kelle
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Thanks so much! I think this solves the problem.