Table row to SED?

[Laurent Michel]

Hello,

That sounds l:ike a nice use-case for a Datalink free service, although I've no idea about how to make it working.

Laurent

Le 11/09/2014 23:34, Laurino, Omar a écrit :
> Hi Mark,
>
> Iris would get the file through table.load.votable. From your description (a photometry catalogue with several luminosities per
> row) it sounds like Iris would need to ask the user to map the photometry catalog to the SpectrumDM so it can make sense of the
> columns (e.g. such column is the luminosity in this band in such and such units and such column is the error associated to such
> luminosity, and so on) and import it as a SED that can then be saved in standard format and/or combined with photometric
> segments coming from other tools/services and/or fitted using Sherpa. On Linux and OS X.
>
> This is taken from Iris' documentation for local files, but it should work just the same if the files comes from SAMP:
> http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/iris/v2.0.1/threads/importer/index.html#import_phot_cats
>
> Although we do have a requirement to implement table.highlight.row, that's not on our priority list for the next release.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Omar.
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk <mailto: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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>
>
>
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> Omar Laurino
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