Domain

Coordinate system domain

Description:

This attribute contains a string which identifies the physical domain of the coordinate system that a Frame describes.

The Domain attribute also controls how a Frame behaves when it is used (by AST_FINDFRAME) as a template to match another (target) Frame. It does this by specifying the Domain that the target Frame should have in order to match the template. If the Domain value in the template Frame is set, then only targets with the same Domain value will be matched. If the template’ s Domain value is not set, however, then the target’ s Domain will be ignored.

Type:
String.

Applicability

Frame
The default Domain value supplied by the Frame class is an empty string.
SkyFrame
The SkyFrame class re-defines the default Domain value to be " SKY" .
CmpFrame
The CmpFrame class re-defines the default Domain value to be of the form " <dom1 >- <dom2 >" , where <dom1 > and <dom2 > are the Domains of the two component Frames. If both these Domains are blank, then the string " CMP" is used as the default Domain name.
FrameSet
The Domain attribute of a FrameSet is the same as that of its current Frame (as specified by the Current attribute).
SpecFrame
The SpecFrame class re-defines the default Domain value to be " SPECTRUM" .
DSBSpecFrame
The DSBSpecFrame class re-defines the default Domain value to be " DSBSPECTRUM" .
FluxFrame
The FluxFrame class re-defines the default Domain value to be " FLUX" .
SpecFluxFrame
The FluxFrame class re-defines the default Domain value to be " SPECTRUM-FLUX" .
TimeFrame
The TimeFrame class re-defines the default Domain value to be " TIME" .

Notes:

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