On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, David Berry wrote:
> Does it make sense for a flux units conversions scheme to be able to take
> account of differences in the spectral rest frame? That is, if FluxFrame
> could convert from (say) "flux per unit topocentric frequency" to "flux
> per unit heliocentric frequency" would it be a selling point? I cannot
> see how a dimensional analysis approach could do this.
No idea about that, but a more obvious conversion it cannot support is
magnitudes to flux, but I guess they'll say you should publish magnitudes
in some other flux units to start with (unlikely as that is for optical
photometry points in a SED).
Peter.
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