This is a future nice-to-have. Once Stokes Q/U/V is back, add the ability to have a list-type flux density for linear and circular polarisation. The key to not making an enormous FITS table is to stick these polarised list densities into their own FITS cards. Just like the shapelet basis coefficients, we can add just the name of the component and all the list flux densities to it's own table. That way we don't have to add many many columns to the main table, which will possibly have hundreds of thousands of empty entries for no reason.
JLBLine
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3 months ago
This is a future nice-to-have. Once Stokes Q/U/V is back, add the ability to have a list-type flux density for linear and circular polarisation. The key to not making an enormous FITS table is to stick these polarised list densities into their own FITS cards. Just like the shapelet basis coefficients, we can add just the name of the component and all the list flux densities to it's own table. That way we don't have to add many many columns to the main table, which will possibly have hundreds of thousands of empty entries for no reason.