use more descriptive names for parameters in SAVE XSPEC output (trac #410)

reported by: peter

When you use the SAVE XSPEC command, it will save spectra computed by Cloudy on a grid. The parameters of each model in the grid are obviously also stored in the FITS file, but the names of these parameters are now generic placeholders: PARAM1, PARAM2, etc. It would be a useful enhancement to replace these generic names with real ones like U or n(H). It still needs to be researched whether the names need to be linear or logarithmic, i.e. U or log(U). The names are stored on line 69 of grid_xspec.cpp (version trunk@11983).

This was suggested by Stefano Bianchi.

Migrated from https://www.nublado.org/ticket/410

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    "description": "When you use the SAVE XSPEC command, it will save spectra computed by Cloudy on a grid. The parameters of each model in the grid are obviously also stored in the FITS file, but the names of these parameters are now generic placeholders: PARAM1, PARAM2, etc. It would be a useful enhancement to replace these generic names with real ones like U or n(H). It still needs to be researched whether the names need to be linear or logarithmic, i.e. U or log(U). The names are stored on line 69 of grid_xspec.cpp (version trunk@11983).\n\nThis was suggested by Stefano Bianchi.",
    "reporter": "peter",
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    "resolution": "",
    "time": "2018-02-07T13:23:10Z",
    "component": "output",
    "summary": "use more descriptive names for parameters in SAVE XSPEC output",
    "priority": "good to do",
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    "milestone": "c19 branch",
    "owner": "peter",
    "type": "enhancement"
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use more descriptive names for parameters in SAVE XSPEC output (trac #410) #412