Outline of proceedings content

[mattjshannon]

Copy/pasting Christiaan's thoughts here, first of all:

• Abstract
• Introduction
• The NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database (PAHdb)
• What are PAHs and the astronomical case
• What is PAHdb
• Where to get PAHdb
• The importance tools to use databases
• PAH emission model
• The James Webb Space Telescope
• What is JWST (NASA's next flagship mission and successor to Hubble); show nice rendering and provide links to JWST website
• What makes JWST so special
• ERS connection; provide link to ERS-website
• pypahdb
• Moving from IDL to Python; entire astronomy field seems to be doing it
• JWST toolkit is written in Python
• pypahdb philosophy, i.e., input, output, multiprocessing, ect.
• IDL vs. Python benchmark(s)
• Code example(s) - show
• Summary and conclusions

[mattjshannon]

Next question is, based on what we have written so far, which of these have we completed/are we satisfied with?

[PAHdb]

A good way forward would be to turn the above outline into sections/sub-sections. Once that is done it should be straightforward to identify what still needs work and what is completed/we are satisfied with.

In order to get a handle on inserting graphics and checking whether I can push to the repository, I intend to add the nice JWST-rendering I have from Maya.

[mattjshannon]

I've started sectioning out the .rst file with the suggestions up top. One thing I want to check is how the online .rst version compares to the compiled .pdf. **added a bunch of subsections.

[PAHdb]

Great! In the meantime I've added some text on PAHdb with a screenshot of the website landing page -possibly a screenshot showing the details on coronene would be more illustrative. In addition, I've made a start with the pypahdb section. Next I was thinking of adding some math to show the emission model used, i.e., a simply blackbody function an emission profile and perhaps a figure with the evolution from a stick-spectrum to a full spectrum.

[PAHdb]

I've added a section on the PAH emission model, but haven't put in a figure yet illustrating the evolution from sticks to spectrum -I'll have a go at that tomorrow.

[PAHdb]

So, I've added the figure illustrating the evolution from sticks to spectrum. Also, I've started working on the 'showcasing' by adding some of the outputs from pypahdb. Much of the basics is now in the .rst-file. The next step would be discussing the code in more detail and looking at the benchmarking.

[mattjshannon]

I think we've settled on this structure (sections/subsections), which is the paper as it stands now (slightly paraphrased)

• Science background

• PAHs

• importance of astronomical PAHs

• Astrophysics & astrochem lab at NASA AMes

• PAHdb

• Next leap forward: JWST

• pyPAHdb

• the pyPAHdb software

• modeling the PAH physics

• pyPAHdb performance

• Fitting spectra with pyPAHdb: demonstration

• performing the fit

• interpreting the results

• Future (work/outlook?)

Can probably close this on Monday after submitting the draft, and then handle the reviewer's suggestions as separate issues as needed?