SpecDM/SEDDM status

[Igor Chilingarian]

Thanks for a quick response, Markus.

The major shortcoming is that we would like to publish photometric data
points along with a spectrum for the same aperture, and this can't be done
with SDMv1.

With best regards,
Igor


On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:17 AM Markus Demleitner <
msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

> Dear Igor,
>
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 05:35:57AM -0400, Igor Chilingarian wrote:
> > We are preparing a major data release with my team in Moscow. It will
> > include a lot of stellar spectra + broadband SEDs. I'm wondering about
> the
> > current status of SED DM / SpecDMv2. The IVOA web-site lists SpecDMv2 as
> > "cancelled" and SED DM as "idle". It's strange because SpecDMv2 was at
> the
> > PR stage from what I understand.
>
> It was found in implemenation that the new serialisation didn't have
> sufficient advantages over version 1.  On the other hand, it was felt
> that if we touch SDM, the result of the effort should be compliant
> with all the new cube and company models (which, presumably, would
> then let one represent spectra as a special case anyway).
>
> > What standard should we try to be compliant with? What we want is a
> > description of FITS serialization -- we need to adjust our web-based
> > spectrum visualizer to handle the right fields in the table.
>
> Use SDMv1 for now.  If you notice any major shortcomings, I'm sure
> this group will be grateful for your feedback.
>
>         -- Markus
>
>
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