Chris Walter

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@RobertLuptonTheGood points to this paper https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2014/07/aa23908-14/aa23908-14.html For a nice discussion of sky glow variability.

Following up in this issue on a discussion that @danielsf and I had: We have now modified imSim to read the PhoSim instance style catalog again. This is attractive since...

Rename this issue to make clearer what it involves.

With all of the work on various pipelines and the extremely large amount of gzipped text file instance catalogs we have had to deal with for DC2, now is a...

There are potentially two different jobs here: - [ ] Use a binary format just to save space and speed. - [ ] Make the format itself more flexible We...

Note one possible performance enhancement with a more flexible format would be the ability deal with all of the components of a galaxy (disk, bulge, knots etc) at once. This...

We won't be doing a partial implementation for DC2 of the binary instance format, so I am removing the DC2 label.

Consolidating discussions: closing #222 which also discusses this.

@jchiang87 is currently testing a pandas based strawman for galaxies only as a followup to discussions at the Tucson meeting.

This issue (and AOS related response) should be handled with Batoid in #10.