Table row to SED?

[Mark Taylor]

thanks Omar.

I thought Iris would be part of a/the solution, but wasn't sure how
much of it is taken care of automatically.  Sounds like it still
requires a reasonable amount of manual intervention for now.
I'll keep an eye out for table.highlight.row capability sometime
in the future.

Mark

On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, Laurino, Omar wrote:

> 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>
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
> > m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-9288776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/
> >
> 
> 
> 
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> Omar Laurino
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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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