Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.
Thursday, 10 May 2018
Scanning a galaxy
And another one. To recap, this is a plot through an HI data cube, where instead of plotting a map of the brightness of the gas, the measured flux corresponds to the height of the line. Each line is a horizontal slice through the data at a single frequency channel, effectively a plot of flux as a function of right ascension (NOT a spectrum !). All I've done here is have each line reveal itself successively, adding a material to make the newly-revealed lines brighter and the older ones faded.
Next up will be to try and simultaneously animate both the appearance of the lines and their corresponding spectral channel, so that the entire surface will be constantly in motion.
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