We made a visualization tool. Our tool converts spectrum values to grid values and gets draws energy-spectrum graphs using grid graphs. And it plots the wavelength - the number of photons per unit area graph per second.
Our tool - Spectral Explorer- plots the wavelength - the number of photons per unit area graph per second using input values. Spectral explorer is a portable solution, It works on web browser. Thus, people can use it on different devices such as desktop, mobile, Internet of Things devices etc. and different operating systems.
Our team members loves astrophysics. One of our team member, Yagmur, is astrophysics undergraduate student. She mentioned how observation tools are important for them. We decided to develop an easy to use solution. Astrophysicists use python libraries such as astropy, pyvo etc. Our goal is to ensure these people use these tools without any coding experience. So they can focus on their work. We use python programming language and django. Our time was limited to develop our solution, nevertheless we made a good looking and easy to use solution.
We use pyvo python library to search for and retrieve spectra from VO services using the Registry and the Simple Spectral Access (SSA) protocol. We can get spectral data provided by space agencies easily using pyvo.
http://www.ivoa.net/documents/SSA/
http://www.ivoa.net/documents/SSA/20120210/REC-SSA-1.1-20120210.pdf
https://github.com/Spectral-Explorer/navo-workshop/blob/master/CS_Spectral_Access.ipynb