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Iwc - Include a Frame representing FITS-WCS intermediate world coordinates?

Description:
This attribute is a boolean value which is used when a FrameSet is read from a FitsChan with a foreign FITS encoding (e.g. FITS-WCS) using AST_READ. If it has a non-zero value then the returned FrameSet will include Frames representing "intermediate world coordinates" (IWC). These Frames will have Domain name "IWC" for primary axis descriptions, and "IWCa" for secondary axis descriptions, where "a" is replaced by the single alternate axis description character, as used in the FITS-WCS header. The default value for "Iwc" is zero.

FITS-WCS paper 1 defines IWC as a Cartesian coordinate system with one axis for each WCS axis, and is the coordinate system produced by the rotation matrix (represented by FITS keyword PCi_j, CDi_j, etc). For instance, for a 2-D FITS-WCS header describing projected celestial longitude and latitude, the intermediate world coordinates represent offsets in degrees from the reference point within the plane of projection.

Type:
Integer (boolean).
Class Applicability:
FitsChan
All FitsChans have this attribute.


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AST A Library for Handling World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy
Starlink User Note 210
R.F. Warren-Smith & D.S. Berry
24th May 2011
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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