BrownDwarf / gollum

A microservice for programmatic access to precomputed synthetic spectral model grids in astronomy
https://gollum-astro.readthedocs.io/
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Support for a reading in just a single static file? #36

Closed gully closed 2 years ago

gully commented 2 years ago

One of the chief problems we have is that the grids are voluminous. We have contemplated many ways to attack that problem with mini-grids (#27), or a binary storage format (#26).

Here we propose another stategy--- the ability to read in just a single standalone static file.

Imagine I simply hand you the (URL or local) path to a single PHOENIX or Sonora model. For Sonora, these have all the information you need to make a spectrum object. For Phoenix, you also need the wavelength file (we could handle that, though).