diff --git a/management/commands/indexer_multithread.py b/management/commands/indexer_multithread.py
index 63f036a..02d0f77 100644
--- a/management/commands/indexer_multithread.py
+++ b/management/commands/indexer_multithread.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 import gc
 import json
 
-MAX_WORKERS = 2 * mp.cpu_count() - 1 #max number of workers for multiprocessing
+MAX_WORKERS = 8                      #max number of workers for multiprocessing
 CHUNK_SIZE = 1_000                   #size of individual chunk
 
 def current_time():                                                         #a function for timestamps
diff --git a/migrations/0006_remove_gaiasource_designation_and_more.py b/migrations/0006_remove_gaiasource_designation_and_more.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d3b6ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migrations/0006_remove_gaiasource_designation_and_more.py
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Generated by Django 5.1.1 on 2024-09-17 08:18
+
+from django.db import migrations
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('GaiaDBInterface', '0005_remove_catalogfile_nested_indexed_and_more'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='designation',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='parallax',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='parallax_error',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='phot_bp_mean_mag',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='phot_g_mean_mag',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='phot_rp_mean_mag',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='pmdec',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='pmdec_error',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='pmra',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='pmra_error',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='ref_epoch',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='solution_id',
+        ),
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='gaiasource',
+            name='source_id',
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/serializers.py b/serializers.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..efd6031
--- /dev/null
+++ b/serializers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+from rest_framework import serializers
+from .models import GaiaSource
+
+class GaiaSourceSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
+    class Meta:
+        model = GaiaSource
+        fields = '__all__'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/views.py b/views.py
index 2536b37..5d0155f 100644
--- a/views.py
+++ b/views.py
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-from django.shortcuts import render
+from rest_framework.views import APIView
+from rest_framework.response import Response
+from rest_framework import status
+from .models import GaiaSource
+from .serializers import GaiaSourceSerializer
+
+