[obs-tap]observable quantities in observations and their UCDs

Anita M. S. Richards a.m.s.richards at manchester.ac.uk
Wed Jun 23 10:13:44 PDT 2010


>
> As I already mentioned in our discussion here at CDS, I do not think that 
> "velocity" is observable in any sense. I would agree that it can be a 
> spectral coordinate, but we NEVER directly observe velocities. Velocities are 
> results of the [model-dependent] data analysis.
>
> With best regards,
> 						Igor

Hm, but what about proper motions?

Anita



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