Merge pull request #833 from keflavich/simbad-vector

WIP: SIMBAD refactor to vectorize some queries
astropy · Jan 18, 2017 · ee9d8d9 · ee9d8d9
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@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@
 - SIMBAD queries allow multiple configurable parameters (#820)
 - Add a capability to resume partially-completed downloads for services that
   support the http 'range' keyword.  Currently applied to ESO and ALMA (#812)
+- SIMBAD now supports vectorized region queries.  A list of coordinates can be
+  sent to SIMBAD simultaneously.  Users will also be warned if they submit
+  queries with >10000 entries, which is the SIMBAD-recommended upper limit.
+  Also, SIMBAD support has noted that any IP submitting >6 queries/second
+  will be soft-banned, so we have added a warning to this effect in the
+  documentation (#833)
 
 0.3.4 (2016-11-21)
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diff --git a/astroquery/exceptions.py b/astroquery/exceptions.py
@@ -51,3 +51,9 @@ class NoResultsWarning(AstropyWarning):
     """
     Astroquery warning class to be issued when a query returns no result.
     """
+
+class LargeQueryWarning(AstropyWarning):
+    """
+    Astroquery warning class to be issued when a query is larger than
+    recommended for a given service.
+    """