4.3.1 Radial velocity / redshift manipulations

 

·         Entering a value

·         Selecting a value

·         Composite (coplot) spectrograms

·         Known bugs

 

By right-clicking the cursor near a particular region of a spectral plot, a window containing a tabbed pane with multiple functions is displayed. One of the panes is dedicated to the manipulation of radial velocity / redshift information in the spectrogram associated with the plot:

 

 

 

 

This window is allowed for all spectrogram types that store observational data.

 

4.3.1.1 Entering a value

By typing in a value (either km/s or z), the value will be used to reassign wavelength values to each one of the spectrogram bins. At this point, a rest wavelengths scale will be computed and stored in the spectrogram. This scale is available as one of the X axis arrays (Sec. 2.2):

 

 

 

 

Monochromatic flux density data displayed against the rest wavelengths scale are re-scaled according to the currently units selection. This scaling is based on the fact that monochromatic flux density values expressed in photnu units (e.g. photons/s/cm**2/Hz) do not change when converted from the observed reference frame to the co-moving frame.

 

4.3.1.2 Selecting a value

As more radial velocity / redshifts values are typed in, they are stored internally and become available for selection at any time:

 

 

 

 

The Delete button can be used to delete the selected entry, which is replaced by the immediate entry in the list.

 

The list of radial velocity values is also saved when the displayed is saved to a display file (Sec. 2.16).

 

Some spectrograms, such as SDSS (Sec. 1.6.9), have already a redshift value assigned to them. In this case, this redshift is automatically incorporated to the list of available radial velocity / redshift values, and cannot be deleted from there.

 

 

4.3.1.3 Composite (coplot) spectrograms

The radial velocity / redshift tool is always applied to the entirety of a spectrogram comprised of multiple segments. Note that the original spectrograms that were used to build the composite are not changed in any way.

 

 

4.3.1.4 Known bugs

  1. The radial velocity tool won’t work when applied to a processed spectrogram (Sec. 5).