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1//
2// C++ Interface: LineCatalog
3//
4// Description:
5//
6//
7// Author: Malte Marquarding <Malte.Marquarding@csiro.au>, (C) 2006
8//
9// Copyright: See COPYING file that comes with this distribution
10//
11//
12#ifndef LINECATALOG_H
13#define LINECATALOG_H
14
15#include <string>
16
17#include <casa/aips.h>
18#include <tables/Tables/Table.h>
19
20namespace asap {
21/**
22  * A represenation of a line catalog, which can be ASCII, or an aips++ table
23  *
24  * ASCII catalogs have to be formatted like JPL.
25  * Name frequency error log(I)
26  * Only  "name", "frequency" and log(I) are used at this stage
27  *
28  * @author Malte Marquarding
29  * @date $Date:$
30  */
31class LineCatalog {
32public:
33  /**
34    *
35    * @param name the name of the ASCII file or aips++ table
36    */
37  LineCatalog(const std::string& name = "jpl");
38  /**
39    * select a subset of the table by frequency range
40    * @param fmin the lower frequency bound
41    * @param fmin the upper frequency bound
42    */
43
44  virtual ~LineCatalog() {}
45
46  /**
47   * select a subset of the data by frequency range
48   * @param fmin the lower frequency bound
49   * @param fmax the upper frequency bound
50   */
51  void setFrequencyLimits(float fmin, float fmax);
52  /**
53    * select a subset of the table by line strength range
54    * @param smin the lower strength bound
55    * @param smin the upper strength bound
56    */
57  void setStrengthLimits(float smin, float smax);
58  /**
59    * select a subset of the data by name pattern match (unix-style)
60    * @param name the string pattern e.g. "*CS*"
61    * @param ptype pattern type e.g.
62    * @li "pattern"
63    * @li "regex"
64    */
65  void setPattern(const std::string& name, const std::string& ptype="pattern");
66  /**
67    * save the table  with current limits to disk (as an aips++ table)
68    * @param name the filename
69    */
70  void save(const std::string& name);
71  /**
72    * Return a string representation of this table
73    * @return std::string
74    */
75
76private:
77  /**
78   * utility function to hadle range limits
79   * @param lmin the lower limit
80   * @param lmax the upper limit
81   * @param colname the columd to apply the limits to
82   * @return a new casa::Table
83   */
84  casa::Table setLimits(float lmin, float lmax, const std::string& colname);
85
86  // the table with seelection
87  casa::Table table_;
88  // the pristine table
89  casa::Table baseTable_;
90};
91
92} // namespace
93
94#endif //LINECATALOG_H
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