Line Catalog

ASAP can load and manipulate line catlogs to retrieve rest frequencies for set_restfreqs and for line identification in the plotter. All line catalogs are loaded into a ``linecatalog'' object.

No line catalogs are built into ASAP, the user must load a ASCII based table (which can optionally be saved in an internal format) either of the users own creation or a standard line catalog such as the JPL line catalog or Lovas. The ATNF asap ftp area as copies of the JPL and Lovas catalog in the appropriate format:

ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/data