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Working with raw laboratory spectra

The 'AmesPAHdbIDLSuite_Laboratory'-object exposes available raw laboratory spectra when an experimental database XML-file is loaded.

laboratory = pahdb->getLaboratoryByUID( $
             pahdb->Search("c<=20 neutral n=2 neutral"))

The 'AmesPAHdbIDLSuite_Laboratory-object's 'Plot'-method will display the raw laboratory spectra. The spectrum of each PAH species will be presented in a different color.

laboratory->Plot

Optionally, the 'Wavelength', 'Oplot', and 'Color'-keywords can be given to the 'Plot'-method to control the abscissa, overplotting, and color, respectively. Through IDL's keyword inheritance mechanism additional keywords accepted by IDL's 'PLOT'-procedure can be passed.

laboratory->Plot,/Wavelength,Color=5,XRANGE=[2.5,15],/XSTYLE

The 'AmesPAHdbIDLSuite_Laboratory-object's 'Write'-method will write the raw laboratory spectrum to file. The spectrum of each PAH species will be written to a separate text (.txt) file, where each filename will have the PAH species UID embedded. Optionally, a prefix can be given that will be prepended to the filename.

laboratory->Write,'myPrefix'