[fitsbits] FITS for DSN spectral line observations

[Phil Hodge]

Tom Kuiper <kuiper at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> The proposed Single Dish Format (SDF) is based on the BINTABLE extension.
> ...
> The drawback to the SDF format is that I doubt that any package except
> AIPS++ or UNIPOPS could process SDF files.  ...

HST extracted spectra for STIS data are in BINTABLE extensions.  One
spectrum is stored in one row; the wavelength, flux, etc., columns contain
arrays.  COS extracted spectra will use a similar format.

Phil