[cube access] minutes from telecon (2013-07-03)

[Tim Jenness]

On Jul 16, 2013, at 12:15 , Patrick Dowler <patrick.dowler at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
 wrote:

> 
> Below are my notes from short telecon we had to discuss some details of the cube access prototypes to be developed this summer.
> 
> Executive summary: a few simple params that define cutouts and flattening:
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> CUTOUT=<stc-S>
> SUM=<axis>

wouldn't the integral be more useful than the sum? (i.e. taking into account the width of each pixel that is being collapsed). Is there scope for a client to do a better implementation of INTEG that will mask out areas of zero emission? At CADC in the JCMT Science Archive the "representative images" are the integrated intensity images of the associated data cubes. You could short cut by selecting the pre-computed image and running cutout on that.


> AVG=<axis>
> 

Is the assumption here that the spectra have continuum information? AVG for JCMT data will give very little information as the data are baseline subtracted and the average of lots of baseline and a weak line is essentially zero. MAX is more helpful in that it tells you the maximum value in the spectrum (assumes that noise artifacts from the edge of the band have been clipped off) and that is hopefully an emission line.


> We will keep the STC-S simple to start (equatorial and galactic coords, no reference positions to complicate things, maybe support only wavelength and frequency for energy bounds, etc). This is *to start* and will be reviewed once we have a few prototypes and get to the WD stage.
> 

This sounds like a good approach.

-- 
Tim Jenness