VOUnit for solar density or metallicity?

[Patrick Dowler]

I agree with Markus' last argument. This makes it 100% clear to me

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Patrick Dowler
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Victoria, BC, Canada


On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 04:20, Markus Demleitner <
msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 05:35:54PM +0000, Tom Donaldson wrote:
> > Based on the discussion so far I’m disinclined to try to introduce
> > a change in astropy to support Sun, although as a data provider it
> > may still be the best option for us for a handful of columns.  As
> > Markus said, it is unlikely to be handled automatically by a
> > client.  I don’t see a way for astropy to map it to a concrete
> > unit, but I suppose it could be of limited use to a human.
>
> Ah, let's keep machine-readable info in machine-readable fields (like
> unit) and let's have human-readable info in human-readable fields
> (which would be description in this case).  I submit
>
>   unit: <empty>
>   description: Angular momentum relative to the sun
>
> even for humans is preferable to
>
>   unit: Sun
>   description: Angular momentum
>
>
>           -- Markus
>
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