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wtbarnes / mocksipipeline

Pipeline for producing synthetic images from the Multi-Order Spectral Imager (MOXSI)
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Recompute CHIANTI spectral tables #13

Open wtbarnes opened 1 year ago

wtbarnes commented 1 year ago

The CHIANTI spectral tables should be recomputed at a spectral resolution that is sufficiently below the instrument spectral plate scale. In particular, it should be $<\Delta\lambda/(2m{max})$, where $m{max}$ is the highest spectral order included. This ensures that we are not undersampling when mapping the spectrally-resolved data down to the detector plane.

wtbarnes commented 7 months ago

I don't actually think this is that big of a deal, provided we are computing the instrument spectral cube at the above resolution (which we are). Since we are not expecting to resolve line shapes anyway, over resolving the actual shape of the spectra is not that big of a deal. More spectral information is always better, but also means that our computation will take longer.