Spectral 2.0 - Document update

Louys Mireille mireille.louys at unistra.fr
Wed Jun 10 17:21:26 CEST 2015


Le 05/06/2015 02:37, Petr Skoda a écrit :
> Hi Mark and all DM members
>
> Unfortunately I do not have time to go through tiny details of SDM 2.0
> But I would like to be assured (by you) that there is a simple answer 
> to these issues:
>
> 1) normalized spectra -  I mean continuum normalized (i.e the 
> horizontal line of continuum is at 1.0)
> Those do not have by definition units - its just relative ratio - it 
> was somehow defined in older SDMs as a ration and some reference (but 
> no one defined yest how to refer to the description of contiuum) - in 
> practise all usefull optical spectra should be continuum normalized by 
> pipeline (or manually) already before ingesting in SSA services ....
> How to describe the Fluxunit and UCDs on flux etc ..... ?
>
what about :
Char.FluxAxis.CalibrationStatus='NORMALIZED'
Char.FluxAxis.unit=NULL  or 'unitless'
Char.FluxAxis.ucd=phot.flux;arith.ratio;

best wishes , Mireille


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