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5.1.9 sd.coordinate - Tool

Single-dish specific spectral coordinate conversion
Description

The coordinate class is a representation of the spectral coordinate (frequency axis) of the data. It handles a conversion between pixel/channel values and frequency/velocity ones under the current spectral coordinate.

Spectral coordinate is composed of a set of three values: a reference pixel, a frequency in Hz at the reference pixel, and an increment in Hz (width of each pixel).

Normally, the object of this class is not created from scratch. Instead, the object can be obtained from scantable object using get_coordinate method. Returned spectral coordinate contains spectral coordinate information and rest frequency value, which is needed to handle velocity conversion, of the given row.

Example

     # create a scantable object
     s=sd.scantable(’OrionS_rawACSmod’,average=False)
     # get coordinate system
     c=s.get_coordinate(0)
     # get coordinate system values
     c.get_increment()
     6104.2329788208008
     c.get_reference_pixel()
     4096.0
     c.get_reference_value()
     45489353563.344795
     # get pixel value
     c.to_pixel(4.5489e10)
     4038.0789891175605
     # get frequency at channel 0
     c.to_frequency(0)
     45464350625.063545
     # get velocity at channel 0
     c.to_velocity(0)
     170.73624010940924

Methods

coordinate	Constructor
coordinate.get_increment	Get increment of this coordinate system
coordinate.get_reference_pixel	Get reference pixel of this coordinate system
coordinate.get_reference_value	Get reference value of this coordinate system
coordinate.to_frequency	Convert a channel/pixel value to a frequency
coordinate.to_pixel	Convert a frequency value to a channel/pixel
coordinate.to_velocity	Convert a channel/pixel value to a velocity

    sd.coordinate.coordinate - Function
    sd.coordinate.coordinate.get_increment - Function
    sd.coordinate.coordinate.get_reference_pixel - Function
    sd.coordinate.coordinate.get_reference_value - Function
    sd.coordinate.coordinate.to_frequency - Function
    sd.coordinate.coordinate.to_pixel - Function
    sd.coordinate.coordinate.to_velocity - Function

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