spectroscopy

Per SVK's suggestion, it is worth exploring if one can use an autoencoder (regular or variational) instead of PCA for the sliding-window-based image denoising originally written by @ramav87 .

@saimani5 @markpoxley will you be interested in exploring it?

🎯 Describe what you'd like

Fetch_hitemp currently takes ~ 1 hr to parse HITEMP H2O lines into HDF5 format. Can be made 4-5 times faster by CPU parallelization (easy given that H2O database is in multiple files).

Will prevent timeouts when setting up https://github.com/radis/radis-lab

💡 Possible implementations

To easily install pyMCR into non-ascii environment (e.g. Windows 10 in Japanese), it would be nice to replace the non-breaking hyphen (U+2011) in line 168 of README.rst into more common hyphen-minus (U+002D) to avoid UnicodeDecordError.

On Demo.ipynb, I guess several mcrals._c_mrd should be mcrals._c_mrd[-1] .

Anyway, this code is what I look for. Thank you so much to share your code!

There some equations for approximating atomic energy level shifts due to continuum lowering - we should add these. I believe David Salzmann's Atomic Physics in Hot Plasmas has some simple equations which we could start with.
Such functions would be handy especially for dense plasmas.

This is an embarrassing one, but yes, the source is criminally under-documented. Additionally, this would be a great time to add in a flow chart or cartoon illustrating the way the different components of LiveView work together. I am a visual person, and I find it helps to use drawings to visually the many parallel components of the software.

This issue will be sticking around for a while.

Lower the requirements for Dimension objects to have names, units, etc. Allow these to be keyword arguments?

Lower required arguments in write_main_dataset() to just:

• h5_parent_group,
• main_data - 2D dataset
• pos_dims
• spec_dims

The same checks should be reflected in check_if_main and other validation functions in hdf_utils

Unit tests should be changed accord