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Any number of FITS binary tables can be attached to
the same FITS table. This convention doesn't have anything
to say about how the tables in such a file might be
related. This strategy, attaching multiple SDFITS binary
tables to a single FITS file, is one possible strategy
for storing variable length DATA. DATA with similar
sizes could be stored in separate tables, minimizing the
amount of padding required in any one table without
resorting to using the table heap convention to store
variable length arrays. SDFITS readers should be
capable of appending the contents of several SDFITS
tables to a single result.
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