ObsCore for velocity cubes
BONNAREL FRANCOIS
francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr
Wed Feb 22 17:20:38 CET 2023
Dear Alberto,
I quote Arnold (2015 Apr 30)
> I strongly urge to keep the two separate.
> Yes, they have much in common, but they serve very different purposes.
> And it is possible to create a 4-D cube where the 4th axis is actually a
> spectral axis and the pixels are different lines (rest frequencies).
> STC2 will treat the spectral and redshift/Doppler as distinct axes.
Now imagine you have Halpha and Hbeta lines in the same dataset (MUSE
cubes?). The may come from different regions and the velocities will be
different for both.
You could have a different velocity map for the two lines in the same
dataset.
Cheers
François
Le 22/02/2023 à 17:06, Alberto Micol a écrit :
>
> Many thanks François,
>
> I will think thouroughly through your message, but first I would like
> to ask you to clarify the meaning of your sentence: “As Arnold pointed
> at that time you have datasets where you provide different doppler
> shift information at different spectral coordinates. What are the
> radial velocity bounds in that case ?”
>
> Could you explain that with more words, maybe giving an example?
>
> To explain why I do not understand that sentence, I give you an
> example of a cube I have at hand here.
>
> In my case a velocity cube is a FITS cube with the third axis defined as:
>
> CTYPE3 = ‘VRAD’
>
> CUNIT3 = ‘m/s’
>
> CD3_3_ = 250
>
> CRVAL3 = 0
>
> CRPIX3 = 141
>
> NAXIS3 = 281
>
> That is enough to state that:
>
> V_min = -35000 m/s
>
> V_max = +35000 m/s
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Alberto
>
> *From: *BONNAREL FRANCOIS <francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 22 February 2023 at 16:46
> *To: *alberto micol <amicol.ivoa at googlemail.com>, Alberto Micol
> <amicol at eso.org>
> *Cc: *"dal at ivoa.net" <dal at ivoa.net>, Data Models mailing list
> <dm at ivoa.net>
> *Subject: *Re: ObsCore for velocity cubes
>
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> Dear Alberto, all,
>
> I come to this copying also to the dm list (ObsCoire and
> extensions are dm stuff). As you may remember this point was
> EXTENSIVELY discussed when we upgraded ObsCore from 1.0 to 1.1.
>
> This discussion was mainly in 2014/2015. See for example these
> threads starting by
> http://mail.ivoa.net/pipermail/dm/2015-April/005147.html and
> http://mail.ivoa.net/pipermail/dm/2015-April/005168.html as well as
> http://mail.ivoa.net/pipermail/dm/2015-May/005174.html
>
> The conclusion at that time was that we didn't have to extend
> ObsCore this way eventually.
>
> For several reasons.
>
> - radial velocity or redshifts derivation from spectral
> frequencies or wl are complex things. querying between vel = 10 km/s
> and 60 km/s may give different results according to the radial
> velocity (or dopplershift) flavor. And if we add the constraint em_ucd
> = vrad (or vopt, or ) then the query become really specialised.
>
> - if the velocity cube is simply a transform of the
> frequency/wavelength axis we still have to select on wavelength
> because velocity cubes in radio domain and velocity cube in optical
> domain are really different things
>
> - But generally speaking the velocity axis is not ONLY a
> transform of the wavelength (or frequency) axis, it provides different
> information. It is a different axis (although related). As Arnold
> pointed at that time you have datasets where you provide different
> doppler shift information at different spectral coordinates. What are
> the radial velocity bounds in that case ?
>
> ---> ObsCore will become really complex to manage and fill in
> these situations
>
> Considering your use case Alberto, I think we have two
> distinguish two steps
>
> - data discovery (With ObsTAP/ SIA) = it's probably
> enough to let the user know that you have velocity cubes by providing
> the appropriate values in em_ucd and em_unit (which are there to
> describe the dataset content and not the spectral characterization).
> We may think to add em_ref to give the wl of the reference line.
> velocity limits will have to be transformed in wavelength to fill the
> mandatory em_min/max anyway. With this you already know that the data
> you discover by a standard ObsCore (or radio extension) query are
> "'velocity cubes"
>
> - SODA cutouts : there , the parameters you propose are
> useful. A discussion started already some time ago to extend SODA .
> For example adding pixel cutouts, or changing the projection or the
> spatial sampling of the cutout. In this context we could also choose
> to extract by forcing velocity constraints, when appropro$iate.
>
> To do that we need additional metadata (eg : the
> content of WCS, and this also for the spectral axis). And for that,
> there is the old idea to have a SODA mode providing full metadata,
> CADC already implemented something like that. The velocity '"axis"
> detailed flavor can be described this way if it exists. This also has
> to be integrated in the SODA-next discussion. Some more on this will
> come soon.
>
> Cheers
>
> François
>
> 1Le 22/02/2023 à 11:33, alberto micol a écrit :
>
> Very well, thanks both Markus and Pat.
>
> So, yes, we need a v_resolution, and it must be in fixed units.
>
> Taking the Greisen et al. default, this is [m/s].
>
> We though need the fravergy UCD to be able to discriminate the
> different velocity flavours.
>
> Is em_ucd the correct field to use?
>
> (Yes, I’m hit strongly by the confusion of throwing untested
> features from a data model into a relational mapping,
>
> that’s why I need your confirmation on this)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alberto
>
> On 21 Feb 2023, at 21:11, Alberto Micol <amicol at eso.org> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> Thanks for the answer. I have a question/doubt regarding the
> v_resolution and v_unit.
>
> ObsCore already foresees the em_resolution, so I originally
> thought we do not need the v_resolution.
>
> But now I am reconsidering this, because I think (in the
> ObsCore standard we were not super-clear regarding this) the
> units of em_resolution are the ones provided by the em_unit
> attribute. Different cubes could have different em_units, and
> that means that em_resolution could not be used to seamlessly
> query across all possible cubes.
>
> If the above is correct, then, yes, we need to have a new field,
>
> v_resolution, with units fixed to e.g. m/s,
>
> similarly to the case of em_min/max always provided in [m],
> whatever the value of the em_unit, to support searches.
>
> In which case, we do not need a v_unit, as v_min/max are fixed
> in [m/s] and we already have em_unit for the units encoded in
> the cube.
>
> Would that make sense?
>
> Regarding treating frequency cubes as velocity cubes (and
> viceversa),
>
> it is indeed useful to provide characterisations both in
> frequency and in velocity
>
> (and why not energy and wavelength), distinguishing the
> different cases according to
>
> the value of the em_ucd, e.g., em.freq, em.wl, em.energy (see
> ObsCore B.6.2), or
>
> spect.dopplerVeloc.radio, spect.dopplerVeloc.opt, spect.dopplerVeloc.rel
> (*) (see ObsCore B.6.2.6).
>
> So we would have:
>
> em_ucd required
>
> v_resolution required, fixed in m/s
>
> em_unit optional, expressing the unit encoded in the cube for
> the spectral axis
>
> em_resolution optional, expressing the resolution in the units
> used by the data cube
>
> If we converge on this, I could put together a little document
> with a detailed proposal.
>
> Would that considered useful?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alberto
>
> (*) cross-standard issue: the spect.dopplerVeloc.rel is
> mentioned in the ObsCore standard,
>
> but it is not a recognised value in the current UCD1+ standard.
>
> We will need to act on this (Mireille?).
>
> *From:*"Dempsey, James (IM&T, Black Mountain)"
> <James.Dempsey at csiro.au <mailto:James.Dempsey at csiro.au>>
> *Date:*Thursday, 16 February 2023 at 00:21
> *To:*Alberto Micol <amicol at eso.org <mailto:amicol at eso.org>>,
> "dal at ivoa.net <mailto:dal at ivoa.net>" <dal at ivoa.net
> <mailto:dal at ivoa.net>>
> *Subject:*Re: ObsCore for velocity cubes
>
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> Hi Alberto,
>
> At CASDA we support cutouts of velocity spectral line cubes.
>
> We currently require the user to provide a BAND or CHANNEL
> parameter to the SODA service which is translated by the
> service to the velocity frame of the target cube. This works,
> but requiring conversions on both the client and server side
> isn’t ideal. Likewise, in our ObsCore implementation only the
> em_ucd indicates the cubes are in velocity but it would
> certainly be useful to have full velocity information for data
> discovery!
>
> The extension you outline looks like it would work nicely for
> the same use case in CASDA. However I think we should add the
> following to fully describe the velocity axis (as opposed to
> its translation into wavelength for the base obscore).
>
> * v_resolution – value of CDELT3 or CDELT4
> * v_unit – although this should always be m/s
>
> Another consideration is that a lot of our users tend to use
> velocity to interact with frequency cubes. So even for these
> frequency cubes we might end up filling in velocity metadata
> if the fields were defined. Tools such as CARTA tend to
> automatically show the spectral axis as velocity where it can,
> such that many users would assume the cubes are in velocity
> not frequency.
>
> Cheers,
>
> *James Dempsey*
>
> Senior Developer | CSIRO
>
> james.dempsey at csiro.au <mailto:james.dempsey at csiro.au>| 02
> 6214 2912
>
> *From:*dal <dal-bounces at ivoa.net> on behalf of alberto micol
> <amicol.ivoa at googlemail.com>
> *Date:*Thursday, 16 February 2023 at 12:02 am
> *To:*dal at ivoa.net <dal at ivoa.net>
> *Subject:*ObsCore for velocity cubes
>
> Dear ObsCorers,
>
> I have received with much interest the ObsCore extension for
> RADIO data, thanks for that very clear document.
>
> Would it be possible to have a similar extension for cubes
> with velocity as third axis (the other two being the usual
> spatial ones)?
>
> Let me call them “velocity cubes”...
>
> Here my use case…
>
> At ESO we need to support cutouts of velocity cubes.
>
> Up to now our SODA interface supported spectra, images, and
> wavelength cubes;
>
> to provide the user with the SODA input parameters and their
> possible MIN/MAX values
>
> we query ivoa.ObsCore.
>
> Now with the introduction of velocity cubes, we would like to
> get the necessary SODA input params also from ObsCore.
>
> We can certainly do so by extending our own ObsCore table
> (ObsCore allows to extend the table), but I was wondering
>
> if others have similar needs, and see if we can agree with a
> common ObsCore extension.
>
> Velocity cubes should come in a FITS format as described by
> Greisen et al, 2006, so-called Paper 3.
>
> Shortly summarised, the velocity can be either:
>
> o a radio (VRAD),
> o an optical (VOPT),
> o a relativistic velocity (ZOPT),
> o a generic apparent velocity (VELO).
>
> The RESTFRQa (RESTWAVa) keyword conveys the necessary
> reference frequency (wavelength) to transform velocity
> into frequency or wavelength.
>
> The velocity unit is m/s.
>
> SODA cutouts on the velocity axis are usually formulated by
> passing cuts already expressed in velocity
>
> though it must be possible to perform the conversions to and
> from frequency/wavelength.
>
> What would then be needed in ObsCore is:
>
> v_min
>
> v_max
>
> but also, in case of radio velocity cube:
>
> f_min
>
> f_max (getting these from the RADIO extension)
>
> f_rest = RESTFRQ
>
> and, in case of a optical or relativistic velocity cube
>
> em_rest = RESTWAV
>
> (we already have em_min, em_max)
>
> The em_resolv_power should then be set to:
>
> lambda freq c
>
> ——————— = ————— = —————
>
> delta lambda delta freq 2 * delta_v
>
> where delta_v is the CD3_3 in the cube (in the example of a
> cube with the velocity on the third axis);
>
> but I would also likely accept a v_pixel_scale (= delta_v).
>
> The UCD for the velocity should then be:
>
> spect.dopplerVeloc.opt
>
> spect.dopplerVeloc.radio
>
> unsure what it should be for the relativistic case.
>
> This would allow us at ESO to implement SODA on top of ObsCore
> (as already done for all other parameters)
>
> and would allow astronomer to search the velocity cubes with
> certain characteristics using ObsCore.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Is that doable? I think at ESO we will simply start
> implementing the above extra ObsCore parameters (unless you
> suggest different names for that),
>
> while waiting to see if there is more interest to build a
> proper standard.
>
> Eager to know what you think,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alberto
>
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