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Host-line mask mixes air and vacuum wavelengths #12

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@cgobat

The hard-coded host-galaxy line list uses inconsistent wavelength conventions. In particular, the [O II] doublet is listed as:

3726.09,
3729.88,

For a vacuum-wavelength list, it should be approximately 3727.09 and 3729.88; for an air-wavelength list, approximately 3726.03 and 3728.82. Most of the other entries, such as Hα at 6564.61 Å and Hβ at 4862.69 Å, are vacuum wavelengths.

The complete list is subsequently passed through pyasl.airtovac2, which also converts the already-vacuum entries a second time and shifts the line centers by roughly 83 km/s.

This occurs in:

  • NGSF/Header_Binnings.py
  • NGSF/SF_functions.py
  • The legacy top-level Header_Binnings.py

I suggest standardizing the list on vacuum wavelengths, changing the first [O II] component to 3727.09 Å, and removing the air-to-vacuum conversion.

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