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ObsCore model extension for radio data
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maximum_angular_scale min/max #67

Open Bonnarel opened 5 days ago

Bonnarel commented 5 days ago

From Martin Hardcastle, in the context of a SRCnet meeting dedicated to Science Metadata Data Models for Astronomy wher Pat presented CAOM and I presented the Radio extension, I got this remark on the project which makes sense

For consistency one would need a min and max maximum angular scale since that also varies across the bandpass!

kettenis commented 1 day ago

@Bonnarel Martin has a point; the maximum angular scale does indeed change with frequency and if the observed fractional bandwidth is large the change can be considerable. The name s_maximum_angular_scale_max sounds a bit awkward, but I guess if we have all three of s_maximum_angular_scale_min (smallest value), s_maximum_angular_scale (typical value) and s_maximum_angular_scale (largest value) it is still clear.