1204.3055 (Jonathan McDowell et al.)

IVOA Recommendation: Spectrum Data Model 1.1    [PDF]

Jonathan McDowell, Doug Tody, Tamas Budavari, Markus Dolensky, Inga Kamp, Kelly McCusker, Pavlos Protopapas, Arnold Rots, Randy Thompson, Frank Valdes, Petr Skoda, Bruno Rino, Sebastien Derriere, Jesus Salgado, Omar Laurino, the IVOA Data Access Layer, Data Model Working Groups

We present a data model describing the structure of spectrophotometric datasets with spectral and temporal coordinates and associated metadata. This data model may be used to represent spectra, time series data, segments of SED (Spectral Energy Distributions) and other spectral or temporal associations.

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