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Parameters used in IMAGR

AIPS 1: IMAGR: Wide field imaging/Clean task
AIPS 1: Adverbs         Values            Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: INNAME     'KCM51_4+25B7'          Input UV data (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS    'ICLN  '                Input UV data (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ         0                    Input UV data (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK        7                    Input UV data disk drive #
AIPS 1: SOURCES    *all ' '                Source name
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Calibrator qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: CALCODE    '    '                  Calibrator code '    '=>all
AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time range to use
AIPS 1: SELBAND    1000                    Bandwidth to select (kHz)
AIPS 1: SELFREQ    345000                  Frequency to select (MHz)
AIPS 1: FREQID       -1                    Freq. ID to select.
AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Sub-array, 0=>all
AIPS 1: DOCALIB      -1                    If >0 calibrate data
AIPS 1: GAINUSE       0                    CL (or SN) table to apply
AIPS 1: DOPOL        -1                    If >0.5 correct polarization.
AIPS 1: BLVER        -1                    BL table to apply.
AIPS 1: FLAGVER      -1                    Flag table version
AIPS 1: DOBAND       -1                    If >0.5 apply bandpass cal.
AIPS 1:                                    Method used depends on value
AIPS 1:                                    of DOBAND (see HELP file).
AIPS 1: BPVER        -1                    Bandpass table version
AIPS 1: SMOOTH     *all 0                  Smoothing function. See
AIPS 1:                                    HELP SMOOTH for details.
AIPS 1: STOKES     '    '                  Stokes parameters (see HELP)
AIPS 1: BCHAN         1                    Low freq. channel 0 for cont.
AIPS 1: ECHAN         1                    Highest freq channel
AIPS 1: CHANNEL       0                    Restart channel number
AIPS 1: NPOINTS       1                    Number of chan. to average.
AIPS 1: CHINC         1                    Channel incr. between maps.
AIPS 1: BIF           1                    First IF in average.
AIPS 1: EIF           1                    Last IF in average.
AIPS 1: OUTNAME    'KCM51_4+25B7'          Output image name (name)
AIPS 1: OUTDISK       7                    Output image disk drive #
AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        0                    Output seq. no.
AIPS 1: OUTVER        0                    CC ver. no (Continuum only)
AIPS 1:                                    *** SET OUTVER ON RESTARTS
AIPS 1: IN2NAME    '            '          UV work file name
AIPS 1: IN2CLASS   '      '                UV work file class
AIPS 1: IN2SEQ        0                    UV work file seq
AIPS 1: IN2DISK       0                    UV work file disk
AIPS 1: CELLSIZE      0.044       0.044    (X,Y) size of grid in asec
AIPS 1: IMSIZE     1024        1024        Minimum image size
AIPS 1: NFIELD        1                    Number of fields (max. 64)
AIPS 1: DO3DIMAG     -1                    > 0 => use different tangent
AIPS 1:                                    points for each field
AIPS 1: FLDSIZE    *all 0                  Size of each field.
AIPS 1: RASHIFT    *all 0                  RA shift per field (asec)
AIPS 1: DECSHIFT   *all 0                  DEC shift per field (asec)
AIPS 1: UVTAPER       0           0        (U,V) Gaussian taper
AIPS 1:                                      units are kilo-lambda
AIPS 1: UVRANGE       0           0        Min & max baseline (klambda)
AIPS 1: GUARD        -1          -1        x,y guard band fractional
AIPS 1:                                    radius
AIPS 1: ROTATE        0                    Rotate image CCW from N by
AIPS 1:                                    ROTATE degrees
AIPS 1: ZEROSP     *all 0                  0-spacing fluxes and weights
AIPS 1:                                    SEE HELP!!
AIPS 1: UVWTFN     'NA'                    UV dist. weight function
AIPS 1:                                      blank => uniform
AIPS 1: UVSIZE        0           0        Array size for doing uniform
AIPS 1:                                    weights.  0 -> actual field
AIPS 1:                                    size.
AIPS 1: ROBUST        5                    Robustness power: -5 -> pure
AIPS 1:                                    uniform weights, 5 => natural
AIPS 1: UVBOX         0                    Additional rows and columns
AIPS 1:                                    used in weighting.
AIPS 1: UVBXFN        1                    Box function type when UVBOX
AIPS 1:                                    > 0.  0 -> 1 round pill box.
AIPS 1: XTYPE         5                    Conv. function type in x
AIPS 1:                                      default spheroidal
AIPS 1: YTYPE         5                    Conv. function type in y
AIPS 1:                                      default spheroidal
AIPS 1: XPARM      *all 0                  Conv. function parms for x
AIPS 1: YPARM      *all 0                  Conv. function parms for y
AIPS 1: NITER      20000                   Maximum # of Clean components
AIPS 1: BCOMP      *all 0                  Begin at BCOMP component
AIPS 1:                                    Specify for each field.
AIPS 1: NBOXES        1                    Number of boxes for Clean
AIPS 1:                                    NB: field 1 only.
AIPS 1: CLBOX       396         396        Four coordinates for each box
AIPS 1:             628         628        *rest 0
AIPS 1: BOXFILE    *all ' '                Input file of field params
AIPS 1:                                    and Clean boxes; ' ' => use
AIPS 1:                                    FLDSIZE, RASHIFT, DECSHIFT,
AIPS 1:                                    NBOXES, CLBOX only.
AIPS 1: OBOXFILE   *all ' '                Output file for final Clean
AIPS 1:                                    boxes
AIPS 1: GAIN          0.1                  Clean loop gain
AIPS 1: FLUX          0                    Minimum Clean component (Jy)
AIPS 1: MINPATCH      0                    Min. BEAM half-width in AP.
AIPS 1: BMAJ          0                    FWHM(asec) major axis Clean
AIPS 1:                                    restoring beam.
AIPS 1: BMIN          0                    FWHM(asec) minor axis Clean
AIPS 1:                                    restoring beam.
AIPS 1: BPA           0                    Clean beam position angle
AIPS 1: OVERLAP       0                    1 => restore components to
AIPS 1:                                    overlapped fields, 2=> expect
AIPS 1:                                    overlaps while Cleaning
AIPS 1: PHAT          0                    Prussian hat height.
AIPS 1: FACTOR        0                    Speedup factor see HELP
AIPS 1: CMETHOD    'GRID'                  Modeling method:
AIPS 1:                                    'DFT','GRID','    '
AIPS 1: CPARM        12        *rest 0     Task enrichment parameters
AIPS 1:                                    (1) Antenna diameter (m)
AIPS 1:                                    (2) Source Spectral index
AIPS 1:                                    (3) Frequency scaling factor
AIPS 1:                                    (4) >0 => do DFT imaging
AIPS 1:                                        (not allowed for now)
AIPS 1:                                    (5) >0 => scale residuals
AIPS 1:                                    (6) Half-width in x of box
AIPS 1:                                    (7) Half-width in y of box
AIPS 1:                                    (10) multiplier of image size
AIPS 1:                                    to get beam size: 0 => 2;
AIPS 1:                                    2, 1, 0.5 0.25 supported
AIPS 1: MAXPIXEL      0                    Maximum pixels searched in
AIPS 1:                                    each major cycle.
AIPS 1: DOTV         -1                    Display residuals on TV ?
AIPS 1:                                    Start with field = DOTV
AIPS 1: BADDISK       2           2        Disks to avoid for scratch.
AIPS 1:               2           2           2           2
AIPS 1:               2           2           2           2



2000-08-11