Convert Exported Splatalogue Catalogs to CASA Tables (splattotable)

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6.15 Convert Exported Splatalogue Catalogs to CASA Tables (splattotable)

In some cases the internal spectral line catalog may not contain the lines in which one is interested. In that case, one can export a catalog from Splatalogue ttp://www.splatalogue.net}orevencreateteir own ”by hand” (be careful to get the format exactly right though!). CASA’s task splattotable can then be used to create a CASA table that contains these lines and can be searched:

---------> inp(splattotable)
#  splattotable :: Convert a downloaded Splatalogue spectral line list to a casa table.
filenames           =       [’’]        #  Files containing Splatalogue lists.
table               =         ’’        #  Output table name.
wantreturn          =       True        #  Do you want the task to return a spectralline tool attached to the results table?
async               =      False        #  If true the taskname must be started using splattotable(...)

A search in Splatalogue will return a catalog that can be saved in a file (look for the ”Export” section after the results on the search results page). The exported filename(s) should be entered in the filenames parameter of splattotable. The downloaded files must be in a specific format for this task to succeed. If you use the Splatalogue ”Export CASA fields” feature, you should have no difficulties.

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