Table row to SED?

[Burke, Douglas]

Mark,

Iris [1] can load a file via SAMP [2], or was this not what you meant?

[1] http://cxc.harvard.edu/iris/v2.0.1/
[2] http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/iris/latest/threads/plot/index.html#broadcast

Doug


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Apps,
>
> I have a request from a user who has tables with photometry columns
> in topcat, and wants to be able to click on a row and see an SED
> built from the photometry data contained in the row.
>
> The request as phrased was to add a "plot SED" button in topcat,
> but I'm not going to do that.  I'm wondering if there is anything
> out there that can accept SAMP messages (table.load.votable
> followed by one or more table.highlight.row) to achieve a similar
> effect.  The receiving application would need to be able to
> make sense of table and column metadata well enough to associate
> columns with spectral coordinates.
>
> I'm a bit out of touch with spectral applications, so I don't know
> if this is far-fetched or easy or somewhere in between, or whether
> there is some other approach that makes more sense to achieve
> the same general effect, anyway, any thoughts welcome.
>
> Mark
>
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