Requirements

OLAF Requirements for Telescope Spectra

• Data must be in an ASCII table.
• You may have either 2 or 3 columns: wavelength (or the equivalent), quantity measured, and optionally a column for uncertainty/error.
• Columns must be separated by a single space.
• Each column must be a fixed width. If not all values in a column are the same width, spaces should be used to pad all values to the same size.
• Decimal numbers must aligned on the decimal. Spaces must be used before and/or after the number so that all values are the same width.
• Integers must be right-aligned.
• The Tab-character cannot be used in the file.
• No blank lines may exist in the file.