[AstroPy] Request for Spectra files (in FITS format)

[Gautham Narayan]

Hi Shailesh and Wolfgang,

You can get a lot of supernovae spectra directly from SUSPECT as a single tarball: http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~suspect/bulk.html
These will be low-dispersion, longslit, optical spectra typically but there should be a good range of instruments represented. 

The TDC at Harvard should also have a large collection (not just SN) available as multispec FITS files: http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/archive/index.html

Cheers,
-Gautham



On May 20, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Wolfgang Kerzendorf <wkerzendorf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> Thanks for all the interest! For now we are only interested in 1D spectra (It is fine to have multiple of those in a fits file, e.g. multi spec) that have a world coordinate solution (in this case a wavelength calibration). Some spectra can already be read with the current version of specutils (see here http://specutils.readthedocs.org/en/latest/specutils/fits_wcs.html).
> 
> Cheers,
>    Wolfgang
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Bob Garwood <bgarwood at nrao.edu> wrote:
> And what about SDFITS - FITS binary tables of single dish radio spectra?
> 
> 
> On 05/20/2014 11:07 AM, Peter Teuben wrote:
>> Shailesh
>>    are regular 3D cubes, such as the ones typically coming out of a radio
>> interferometer (CARMA, ALMA) going to be acceptable as a use case? I
>> guess you can see them as NX by NY  "independant" spectra.
>> 
>> I have plenty of those :-)
>> 
>> peter 
>> 
>> On 05/19/2014 11:55 PM, Shailesh Ahuja wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> 
>>> I am working on the Google summer of code project for reading/writing spectra. To successfully cover all use cases, I need your help to provide me Spectra files in FITS format. At this stage we are most interested files that contain 1-dimensional extracted spectra (either long slit, multi-object or echelle) from optical or infrared spectrographs. But feel free to send any spectra that you would like to able to read easily with Astropy.
>>> 
>>> Your contribution is very important for this project, so if you do have any files, please send it to me by following the steps below:
>>> 1. Go to http://www.dropitto.me/shailesh1
>>> 2. Enter password 'spectra'.
>>> 3. Browse and upload the files
>>> 
>>> I will try to make it work for as many spectra files as possible! Thank you so much for your contribution!
>>> 
>>> Sincerely
>>> Shailesh Ahuja
>>> 
>>> 
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