Make an MRT reader for spectra

Open kelle opened this issue 6 months ago • 2 comments

Some folks publish their spectra in AAS Machine Readable Table format. We could make a reader. Here's an example dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/14976898

Jun 26 '25 20:06 kelle

There is also possibly relevant work happening in io.ascii: https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/17279 https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/14556

Jun 27 '25 17:06 kelle

NB: I don't think we should make a writer for MRTs, only a reader. I personally don't think we (nor AAS) should encourage users to share spectra as MRTs. cc @augustfly

Jun 27 '25 17:06 kelle