Usage

Supported Input Formats

The package accepts three input styles.

CSV with decimal degrees:

Name,ra_deg,dec_deg
TargetA,83.6331,-5.3911
TargetB,150.025,-34.433

CSV with sexagesimal coordinates:

Name,ra,dec
TargetA,04:49:26.41,-69:12:03.77
TargetB,05:24:15.77,-71:58:00.70

Plain text with one source per line:

J044926-691203,04:49:26.41 -69:12:03.77
J052415-715800,05:24:15.77 -71:58:00.70

Basic Commands

alma_search input.csv output.csv

alma_search input.csv output.csv --radius-arcmin 3

alma_search input.csv output.csv --dedup-level none

alma_search input.csv output.csv --observed-species HCN

alma_search input.csv output.csv --cleaner

alma_search input.csv output.csv --verbose

Defaults

Parameter

Default

Flag

Search radius

5 arcmin

--radius-arcmin

Deduplication level

project_target

--dedup-level

Line velocity tolerance

350 km/s

--line-velocity-tolerance-kms

Observed species

CO

--observed-species

Distance threshold

30 arcsec

--observed-distance-threshold-arcsec

FOV threshold

100 arcsec

--observed-fov-threshold-arcsec

What --verbose Does

--verbose enables debug logging. It does not change the science result. It only prints extra details such as:

  • input parsing fallback messages

  • exact query submission timing

  • full error traces if a TAP query fails