IVOA Recommendation: Simple Cone Search Version 1.03

Understand

This specification 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.
• This version of the specification is essentially a transcription of the original Cone Search specification in order to move it into the IVOA standardization process.