Paper:	Packaging Radio/Sub-millimeter Spectral Data in FITS
Volume:	145, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII
Page:	125
Authors:	Wang, Z.
Abstract:	We report on an experiment to incorporate the multiple extension FITS file format in building data processing software for spectroscopic observations in radio and millimeter-submillimeter wavelengths. By packaging spectral header information into table extensions and the actual spectral data into either table or image extensions, this approach provides a convenient and effective way to organize large amount of spectroscopic data, especially for pipeline-like processing tasks. Tests conducted based on a software package developed for the SWAS mission have demonstrated this to be a viable alternative to the conventional ways of organizing spectral data at these wavelengths.

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