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Improving and expanding the Photometry class
Currently the Photometry
class contains only simple primitives, with different types of flux/brightness measures enumerated. This is something that could be both streamlined and expanded significantly. This issue is a place to record ideas and brainstorm.
- Streamlining: for example, by using
Quantity
classes which include errors and units internally - Expanding:
- Using a new, more general 'brightness'/'intensity' class which can readily convert between different flux/magnitude units.
- Allowing conversion between flux and luminosity using the distance
- convert from bands to bolometric and visa-versa using more detailed modeling.