Obstap Polarization data discovery

Juande Santander Vela juandesant at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 01:53:40 PDT 2011


Am 16/03/2011 um 23:46 schrieb François Bonnarel:

> To be more precise:
>    - if we want to use the mandatory fields only o_ucd can be used to specify that phot.flux.density is completed by phys.polarization or phys.polarization.*. This gives a polarization "falvor" to the flux and can be searched by
> ADQL queries.
>     - this is sufficient for data discovery, but only the pol_states optional field  can give us the full list of available polarization states in the data set.

I think this is a good compromise, and we can leave the actual definition of pol_states for later.

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Juande Santander Vela
Software Engineer, ALMA Archive Subsystem
Data Flow Infrastructure Department, Software Development Division
European Southern Observatory (Germany)

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