A primary use case for Spectre is solar radio observations. The CALLISTO spectrometer is a widely-deployed programmable heterodyne receiver used for the same purpose, with stations worldwide forming the e-Callisto network. Each station records spectrograms as FITS files every 15 minutes.
Existing tools (e.g., here) and data analysis scripts written by scientists already support the CALLISTO FITS file structure. Maintaining consistency with this format would therefore be beneficial, since scientists could reuse existing tools.
This issue explores:
- Are FITS files produced by Spectre compliant with the FITS file format specification?
- Are they structurally consistent with FITS files produced by CALLISTO instruments?
- If inconsistencies exist, can they be made consistent in a sensible way?
Either way, we will be able to create a dedicated event handler which produces FITS files compatible with Callisto, at least in terms of file structure.
A primary use case for Spectre is solar radio observations. The CALLISTO spectrometer is a widely-deployed programmable heterodyne receiver used for the same purpose, with stations worldwide forming the e-Callisto network. Each station records spectrograms as FITS files every 15 minutes.
Existing tools (e.g., here) and data analysis scripts written by scientists already support the CALLISTO FITS file structure. Maintaining consistency with this format would therefore be beneficial, since scientists could reuse existing tools.
This issue explores:
Either way, we will be able to create a dedicated event handler which produces FITS files compatible with Callisto, at least in terms of file structure.