AIPS HELP file for UVHGM in 31DEC24
As of Sat Apr 20 3:18:58 2024
UVHGM: Task to produce histograms summarizing uv data.
INPUTS
USERID -32000.0 32000.0 User id number - ignored
INNAME uv name
INCLASS uv class
INSEQ 0.0 9999.0 uv sequence number
INDISK 0.0 9.0 uv disk number
SRCNAME Source to plot.
QUAL -10.0 Qualifier -1=>all
CALCODE Calibrator code ' '=>all
STOKES Stokes type to select.
SELBAND Bandwidth to select (kHz)
SELFREQ Frequency to select (MHz)
FREQID Freq. ID to select.
TIMERANG Time range to select
ANTENNAS Antennas to plot
BASELINE Baselines with ANTENNAS
UVRANGE UV range in kilolambda.
SUBARRAY 0.0 1000.0 Subarray, 0 => all
BCHAN 0.0 4096.0 1st spectral channel #
ECHAN 0.0 4096.0 Last spectral channel #
CHINC 0.0 4096.0 Increment in channel #
BIF Low IF number to plot
EIF Highest IF number to plot
DOCALIB -1.0 101.0 > 0 calibrate data & weights
> 99 do NOT calibrate weights
GAINUSE CAL (CL or SN) table to apply
DOPOL -1.0 10.0 If >0 correct polarization.
PDVER PD table to apply (DOPOL>0)
BLVER BL table to apply.
FLAGVER Flag table version
DOBAND -1.0 10.0 If >0 apply bandpass cal.
Method used depends on value
of DOBAND (see HELP file).
BPVER Bandpass table version
SMOOTH Smoothing function. See
HELP SMOOTH for details.
DOALL -1.0 2.0 > 0 => fit and plot Gaussian
> 1 => plot hist outline
NBOXES 0.0 32768.0 Number of histogram bins.
PIXRANGE Use fixed x-axis range
AXTYPE Selection code (see help)
U = u, V = v, W = w
R = SQRT(u*u + v*v)
D = SQRT(u*u + v*v + w*w)
O = baseline position angle
T = time
B = baseline antenna pair
S = source id number
F = frequency id number
H = real, I = imaginary
A = amplitude, P = phase
C = weight
X = amplitude * sqrt(wt)
OPCODE CLIN: linear by count
CLOG: log10 by count
WLIN: linear by weight
WLOG: log10 by weight
LTYPE -410.0 410.0 Type of labeling: 1 border,
2 no ticks, 3 - 6 standard,
7 - 10 only tick labels
<0 -> no date/time
DOTV -1.0 1.0 > 0 Do plot on the TV, else
make a plot file
GRCHAN 0.0 8.0 Graphics channel 0 => 1.
BADDISK Disks to avoid for scratch
HELP SECTION
UVHGM
Type: Task
Use: UVHGM produces histograms which summarize the content of a uv data
set. Multiple plots may be made in a single execution.
Adverbs:
USERID......User ID of owner of image. Ignored
INNAME......uv name, Standard defaults.
INCLASS.....uv class, Standard defaults.
INSEQ.......uv sequence number, 0 -> highest.
INDISK......uv disk number, 0 -> any.
SRCNAME....Name of source to be plotted, required for multi-source
files.
QUAL.......Qualifier of source to be plotted. -1 => all.
CALCODE....Calibrator code of source to plot. ' '=> all.
STOKES.....The desired Stokes type of the plotted data:
'I','Q','U','V','RR','LL','HALF','FULL'
default usually FULL which will plot RR, LL, RL, and LR
all added into the same plot. Use 'HALF' or 'RRLL' or
'I' to examine only parallel-hand data.
SELBAND....Bandwidth of data to be selected. If more than one IF is
present SELBAND is the width of the first IF required.
Units = kHz. For data which contain multiple bandwidths or
frequencies the task will insist that some form of
selection be made by frequency or bandwidth.
SELFREQ....Frequency of data to be selected. If more than one IF is
present SELFREQ is the frequency of the first IF required.
Units = MHz.
FREQID.....Frequency identifier to select (you may determine which is
applicable from the OPTYPE='SCAN' listing produced by
LISTR). If either SELBAND or SELFREQ are set, their values
overide that of FREQID. However, setting SELBAND and
SELFREQ may result in an ambiguity. In that case, the task
will request that you use FREQID. If all SELBAND, SELFREQ
and FREQID are not specified (<= 0) then the task will loop
over the frequency ID plotting all of them!
TIMERANG...Time range of the data to be plotted. In order:
Start day, hour, min. sec, end day, hour, min. sec.
Days relative to reference date.
ANTENNAS...A list of the antennas to plot. If any number is negative
then all antennas listed are NOT desired and all others
are. All 0 => list all.
BASELINE...Baselines are specified using BASELINE.
Eg. for baselines 1-6,1-8, 2-6 and 2-8
use ANTENNAS=1,2; BASELINE=6,8.
UVRANGE....Range of projected spacings to be plotted in 1000's of
wavelengths. 0 => 1, 1.E10
SUBARRAY...Subarray number to plot. 0 => all - the task will
loop over subarray number.
BCHAN......Beginning spectral line channel number. 0 => 1.
ECHAN......Ending spectral line channel number. 0 => max.
CHINC......Increment in spectral line channel number. 0 => 1.
BIF........First IF number to plot. 0 => 1
EIF........Last IF number to plot. 0 => highest
DOCALIB....If true (>0), calibrate the data using information in the
specified Cal (CL) table for multi-source or SN table for
single-source data. Also calibrate the weights unless
DOCALIB > 99 (use this for old non-physical weights).
GAINUSE....Version number of the Cal. table to apply to the data if
DOCALIB=1. Refers to a CL table for multi-source data or
an SN table for single-source. 0 => highest.
DOPOL......If > 0 then correct data for instrumental polarization as
represented in the AN or PD table. This correction is
only useful if PCAL has been run or feed polarization
parameters have been otherwise obtained. See HELP DOPOL
for available correction modes: 1 is normal, 2 and 3 are
for VLBI. 1-3 use a PD table if available; 6, 7, 8 are
the same but use the AN (continuum solution) even if a PD
table is present.
PDVER......PD table to apply if PCAL was run with SPECTRAL true and
0 < DOPOL < 6. <= 0 => highest.
BLVER......Version number of the baseline based calibration (BL) table
to apply. <0 => apply no BL table, 0 => highest, if any.
FLAGVER....Specifies the version of the flagging table to be applied.
0 => highest numbered table. <0 => no flagging to be
applied.
DOBAND.....(multi-source) If true (>0), then correct the data for the
shape of the antenna bandpasses using the BP table
specified by BPVER. The correction has five modes:
(a) if DOBAND=1 all entries for an antenna in the table
are averaged together before correcting the data.
(b) if DOBAND=2 the entry nearest in time (including
solution weights) is used to correct the data.
(c) if DOBAND=3 the table entries are interpolated in
time (using solution weights) and the data are then
corrected.
(d) if DOBAND=4 the entry nearest in time (ignoring
solution weights) is used to correct the data.
(e) if DOBAND=5 the table entries are interpolated in
time (ignoring solution weights) and the data are then
corrected.
BPVER......(multi-source) specifies the version of the BP table to be
applied. 0 => highest numbered table.
SMOOTH.....Specifies the type of spectral smoothing to be applied to
a uv database . The default is not to apply any smoothing.
The elements of SMOOTH are as follows:
SMOOTH(1) = type of smoothing to apply: 0 => no smoothing
To smooth before applying bandpass calibration
1 => Hanning, 2 => Gaussian, 3 => Boxcar, 4 => Sinc
To smooth after applying bandpass calibration
5 => Hanning, 6 => Gaussian, 7 => Boxcar, 8 => Sinc
SMOOTH(2) = the "diameter" of the function, i.e. width
between first nulls of Hanning triangle and sinc
function, FWHM of Gaussian, width of Boxcar. Defaults
(if < 0.1) are 4, 2, 2 and 3 channels for SMOOTH(1) =
1 - 4 and 5 - 8, resp.
SMOOTH(3) = the diameter over which the convolving
function has value - in channels. Defaults: 1,3,1,4
times SMOOTH(2) used when input SMOOTH(3) < net
SMOOTH(2).
DOALL.......True (> 0) means to fit and plot (if the fit worked)
Gaussians to each of the histograms.
> 1 -> plot histogram tops only, else each bin is
plotted from the bottom left to top left to top right
and down to bottom right (histogram area all black if
NBOXES is large).
NBOXES......Number of histogram bins. The product of NBOXES and the
number of histograms specified by AXTYPE must not exceed
16384. The default is 128.
PIXRANGE....Range of x-axis values to be binned and plotted. Note
that one PIXRANGE applies to all AXTYPEs plotted (which
may not be a good idea).
AXTYPE......Selection code. Up to eight of the following codes may be
specified per execution.
U = u, V = v, W = w, R = SQRT(u*u + v*v)
D = SQRT(u*u + v*v + w*w),
O = baseline position angle
T = time, B = baseline antenna pair
S = source identification number
F = frequency identification number
H = real part of the visibility
I = imaginary part
A = visibility amplitude, P = visibility phase
C = visibility weight
X = visibility amp * sqrt(visibility weight)
Since D measures the physical separation between each
antenna pair it should be invariant.
OPCODE......A code for the way the histograms are to be constructed.
The bins may be linear or logarithmic (base 10), and the
data can be added as a simple count of the visibilities,
or as the sum of the weights recorded with visibility.
The weight is usually the length of the sample period
measured in tens of seconds. Recognized codes are 'CLIN',
'CLOG', 'WLIN', and 'WLOG'. All others => 'CLIN'
LTYPE.......Labelling type, see HELP LTYPE for details:
1 = border, 2 = no ticks, 3 or 7 = standard, 4 or 8 =
relative to ref. pixel, 5 or 9 = relative to subimage
(BLC, TRC) center, 6 or 10 = pixels. 7-10 all labels
other than tick numbers and axis type are omitted.
Less than 0 is the same except that the plot file
version number and create time are omitted.
Add n * 100 to alter the metric scaling.
DOTV........> 0 => plot directly on the TV device, otherwise make a
plot file for later display on one or more devices
(including the TV if desired). If more than one page of
plot is to be done, then the task pauses 30 seconds
between plots (or continues sooner if you hit button A, B,
or C). Button D in that interval tells the task to stop.
GRCHAN......Graphics channel (1 - 7) to use for line drawing. 0 => 1.
BADDISK....The disk numbers to avoid for scratch files (sorting
tables mostly).
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