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The AIPS Cookbook |
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We have placed the CookBook into both fully linked html and pdf formats. See the current html version. A linked pdf (66866360 bytes) version is also available. Be sure to use a true Adobe acroread on this file - cheap imitations do not work
Other than the Glossary and Appendix Z, all CookBook chapters have
been re-written to refer to modern versions of AIPS. The Glossary and
Appendix Z are clearly dated, but remain useful. The material below
refers to the 31DEC24 or earlier versions of AIPS. Some
chapters carry earlier release dates, but all are believed to be
relatively current. Updated chapters are indicated by the version
date on the section heading below. All chapters are available in a
PostScript and a GNU gzip PostScript form. Of course, if you want to
dispense with all that stuff about astronomy, interferometry, and
AIPS, you can go straight to the Additional recipes (or uncompressed or PDF) a significant number
of which were new in January 2001 and November 2004.
If you wish to get these files via anonymous ftp (in one go with an
mget command), then you should connect to
ftp.aoc.nrao.edu, username anonymous, use your
email address as password, and cd to
/pub/software/aips/TEXT/PUBL/ where you will find all the
COOK*.PS files. If you just want some chapters, it may be
simpler to just click on the links to the PostScript files below.
The following is a list of pointers to the different chapters in this Table of Contents giving their most recent revision dates (as YY/MM/DD), their correspondences to an AIPS release, and their titles.
Acknowledgments 0 - 2
Table of contents 0 - i
List of figures 0 - xvii
List of recipes 0 - xviv
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1.1 The NRAO AIPS Project - A Summary 1 - 1 1.2 The Cookbook 1 - 3 1.3 Organization of the Cookbook 1 - 4 1.3.1 Contents 1 - 4 1.3.2 Minimum match 1 - 5 1.3.3 Fonts and what they signify 1 - 5 1.4 General structure of AIPS 1 - 5
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2.1 Obtaining access to an AIPS computer 2 - 1 2.2 Using the workstation 2 - 1 2.2.1 Logging in to the workstation 2 - 1 2.2.2 Control characters on the workstation 2 - 2 2.2.3 Starting the AIPS program 2 - 3 2.2.4 Typing commands to the AIPS program 2 - 10 2.3 Managing windows 2 - 11 2.3.1 General window management 2 - 11 2.3.2 Managing the AIPS TV window called XAS 2 - 12 2.4 Additional recipe 2 - 12
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3.1 Talking to AIPS 3 - 1 3.1.1 POPS and AIPS utilities 3 - 1 3.1.2 Tasks 3 - 1 3.1.3 Verbs 3 - 2 3.1.4 Adverbs 3 - 3 3.2 Your AIPS message file 3 - 4 3.3 Your AIPS data catalog files 3 - 5 3.3.1 Speedy data file selection 3 - 6 3.3.2 Catalog entry status 3 - 6 3.3.3 Renaming data files 3 - 6 3.3.4 Header listings 3 - 7 3.4 Your AIPS history files 3 - 8 3.5 Saving and restoring inputs 3 - 9 3.6 Monitoring disk space 3 - 11 3.7 Moving and compressing files 3 - 12 3.8 Finding helpful information in AIPS 3 - 12 3.9 Magnetic tapes 3 - 15 3.9.1 Hardware tape mount 3 - 15 3.9.2 Software mounting local tapes 3 - 16 3.9.3 Software mounting REMOTE tapes 3 - 16 3.9.4 Using tapes in AIPS 3 - 16 3.10 AIPS external disk files 3 - 17 3.10.1 Disk text files 3 - 17 3.10.2 RUN files 3 - 18 3.10.3 FITS disk files 3 - 19 3.10.4 Other binary data disk files 3 - 20 3.11 The array processor 3 - 21 3.12 Additional recipes 3 - 21
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4.1 Copying data into AIPS multi-source disk files 4 - 2
4.1.1 Reading EVLA archive files into AIPS 4 - 3
4.1.2 Reading data from FITS files with FITLD 4 - 5
4.2 Record keeping and data management 4 - 6
4.2.1 Calibrating data with multiple FQ entries 4 - 6
4.2.2 Recommended record keeping 4 - 6
4.3 Beginning the calibration 4 - 7
4.3.1 Baseline corrections 4 - 8
4.3.2 Correcting EVLA 3-bit data 4 - 10
4.3.3 Check your data with POSSM 4 - 10
4.3.4 Remove spectral ringing with SPLAT 4 - 11
4.3.5 General considerations in flagging 4 - 11
4.3.6 Correcting delay errors with FRING 4 - 14
4.3.7 Primary flux density calibrators 4 - 15
4.3.8 Correcting the bandpass shape with BPASS 4 - 16
4.3.9 Calibrating the complex antenna gains with
VLACALIB 4 - 19
4.3.9.1 Using calibrator models 4 - 19
4.3.9.2 Calibrating complex gains 4 - 20
4.3.9.3 Flux calibration without calibrator models 4 - 21
4.3.10 Bootstrapping secondary flux-density calibrators 4 - 22
4.3.11 Editing visibility data with EDITA 4 - 23
4.3.12 Applying solutions to the calibration table with
CLCAL 4 - 24
4.3.13 Flagging RFI with RFLAG 4 - 28
4.3.14 Restart the calibration 4 - 30
4.3.15 Calibration with the SysPower table 4 - 30
4.3.16 Calibrating polarization 4 - 32
4.3.17 Additional calibrations for EVLA data 4 - 36
4.3.18 Making images from multi-source data with IMAGR 4 - 38
4.3.19 Back up your data with FITTP or FITAB 4 - 39
4.3.20 Creating single-source files with SPLIT 4 - 39
4.4 Concluding remarks, early science 4 - 40
4.5 Additional recipe 4 - 40
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5.1 Preparing uv data for imaging 5 - 1
5.1.1 Indexing the data - PRTTP 5 - 1
5.1.2 Loading the data - FITLD and UVLOD 5 - 2
5.1.3 Sorting the data - UVSRT 5 - 3
5.1.4 Combining data sets for imaging - DBCON and VBGLU 5 - 3
5.2 Basic image making - IMAGR 5 - 4
5.2.1 Making a simple image 5 - 5
5.2.2 Imaging multiple fields and image coordinates 5 - 6
5.2.3 Data weighting 5 - 8
5.2.4 Cell and image size, shifting 5 - 9
5.2.5 Zero spacing issues 5 - 11
5.3 Deconvolving images 5 - 11
5.3.1 Basic Cleaning with IMAGR 5 - 12
5.3.2 Multiple fields in IMAGR 5 - 14
5.3.3 Clean boxes and the TV in IMAGR 5 - 16
5.3.4 Experimental variations on Clean in IMAGR 5 - 19
5.3.4.1 Clean-component filtering 5 - 19
5.3.4.2 SDI modification of Clean in IMAGR 5 - 20
5.3.4.3 Multi-scale modification of Clean in IMAGR 5 - 20
5.3.4.4 Spectral-index corrections 5 - 21
5.3.5 Data correction options in IMAGR 5 - 21
5.3.5.1 Frequency-dependent primary beam corrections 5 - 21
5.3.5.2 Frequency-dependent correction for average
spectral index 5 - 21
5.3.5.3 Error in the assumed central frequency 5 - 22
5.3.5.4 Array mis-orientation effects 5 - 22
5.3.5.5 Non-coplanar effects 5 - 22
5.3.5.6 Units mismatch of residuals & Clean components 5 - 22
5.3.6 Manipulating Clean components 5 - 23
5.3.7 Image-plane deconvolution methods 5 - 24
5.4 Self-calibration 5 - 26
5.4.1 Self-calibration sequence and SCMAP or SCIMG 5 - 26
5.4.2 Self-calibration with CALIB 5 - 28
5.4.3 Considerations in setting CALIB inputs 5 - 30
5.4.4 Evaluating the quality of the imaging 5 - 32 NEW
5.4.5 Experimental extension of multi-field
self-calibration 5 - 32
5.5 More editing of uv data 5 - 32
5.5.1 General remarks on, and tools for, editing 5 - 32
5.5.2 Baseline-based uv-data editing - EDITR 5 - 34
5.6 Imaging with OBIT, Complex imaging 5 - 39
5.7 Additional recipes 5 - 40
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6.1 Getting data into your AIPS catalog 6 - 1
6.1.1 IMLOD and FITLD from FITS disk 6 - 1
6.1.2 Image coordinates 6 - 2
6.2 Printer displays of your data 6 - 3
6.2.1 Printing your visibility data 6 - 3
6.2.2 Printing your image data 6 - 4
6.2.3 Printing your table data 6 - 4
6.2.4 Printing miscellaneous information 6 - 5
6.3 Plotting your data 6 - 5
6.3.1 Plotting your visibility data 6 - 8
6.3.2 Plotting your image data 6 - 9
6.3.2.1 Contour and grey-scale plots 6 - 9
6.3.2.2 Row tracing plots 6 - 13
6.3.2.3 Miscellaneous image plots 6 - 13
6.3.3 Plotting your table data 6 - 15
6.3.4 Plotting miscellaneous information 6 - 17
6.4 Interactive TV displays of your data 6 - 17
6.4.1 Loading an image to the TV 6 - 17
6.4.2 Manipulating the TV display 6 - 19
6.4.3 Intensity and color transfer functions 6 - 19
6.4.4 Setting parameters with the TV 6 - 20
6.4.5 Reading image values from the TV 6 - 21
6.4.6 Labeling images on the TV 6 - 22
6.4.7 Comparing images on the TV 6 - 22
6.4.8 Slice files and the TV display 6 - 25
6.4.9 Other functions using the TV 6 - 25
6.4.10 Capturing the TV 6 - 26
6.5 Graphics displays of your data 6 - 27
6.5.1 Plotting data and setting values with the graphics
display 6 - 28
6.5.2 Slice files and the graphics display 6 - 28
6.5.3 Data analysis with the graphics display 6 - 29
6.6 Additional recipes 6 - 29
6.7 Examples of color plots 6 - 30
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7.1 Combining two images (COMB) 7 - 1
7.1.1 Subtracting a continuum image from an image cube 7 - 1
7.1.1 Polarized intensity and position angle images 7 - 1
7.1.2 Other image combination options 7 - 2
7.1.3 Considerations in image combination 7 - 3
7.2 Combining more than two images (CMPLX, SUMIM SPIXR,
STACK) 7 - 3
7.3 Image statistics and flux integration 7 - 4
7.4 Blanking of images 7 - 5
7.5 Fitting of images 7 - 6
7.5.1 Centroid fits (IMCENTER) and parabolic fit to
maximum (MAXFIT) 7 - 6
7.5.2 Two-dimensional Gaussian fitting (IMFIT) 7 - 7
7.5.3 Source recognition and fitting (SAD) 7 - 8
7.5.4 Gaussian fits to slices (SLFIT) 7 - 8
7.5.5 Spectral parameter fitting (XGAUS, ZEMAN, RMFIT,
FARS) 7 - 10
7.6 Image analysis 7 - 12
7.6.1 Geometric conversions 7 - 12
7.6.2 Mathematical operations on a single image 7 - 13
7.6.3 Primary beam correction 7 - 15
7.6.4 Changing the resolution of an image 7 - 15
7.6.5 Filtering 7 - 16
7.7 Modeling in the image and uv planes 7 - 16
7.7.1 Analysis in the uv plane 7 - 17
7.8 Additional recipes 7 - 18
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8.1 Data preparation and assessment 8 - 1 8.2 Editing and self-calibration 8 - 4 8.3 Continuum subtraction 8 - 5 8.4 Imaging 8 - 6 8.5 Display and manipulation of data cubes 8 - 7 8.5.1 Building and dismantling data cubes 8 - 7 8.5.2 Transposing the cube 8 - 9 8.5.3 Modifying the image header 8 - 9 8.5.4 Displaying the cube 8 - 10 8.6 Analysis 8 - 14 8.7 Additional recipes 8 - 17
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9.1 VLBI data calibration recipe 9 - 2
9.2 Pipeline for the VLBA 9 - 5
9.3 Loading, fixing and inspecting data 9 - 7
9.3.1 Loading data from the VLBA correlator 9 - 7
9.3.1.1 Running FITLD 9 - 7
9.3.1.2 Calibration transfer 9 - 11
9.3.1.3 Repairing VLBA data after FITLD 9 - 11
9.3.1.4 Sorting and indexing VLBA correlator data 9 - 12
9.3.1.5 Subarraying VLBA correlator data 9 - 12
9.3.1.6 Indexing VLBA correlator data 9 - 13
9.3.1.7 Concatenating VLBA correlator data 9 - 14
9.3.1.8 Labeling VLBA correlator polarization data 9 - 14
9.3.1.9 Ionospheric corrections 9 - 15
9.3.1.10 Corrections to the Earth Orientation Parameters 9 - 16
9.3.1.11 Preparing the OB table for SVLBI data 9 - 17
9.3.1.12 Loading the time corrections file for SVLBI data 9 - 18
9.4 Tools for data examination 9 - 18
9.4.1 Textual displays 9 - 19
9.4.2 Spectral displays: POSSM 9 - 20
9.4.3 Time displays: VPLOT, CLPLT, and CAPLT 9 - 21
9.4.4 EDITR 9 - 22
9.4.5 SNPLT 9 - 22
9.4.6 COHER 9 - 23
9.4.7 FRPLT 9 - 23
9.5 Calibration strategy 9 - 24
9.5.1 Incremental calibration philosophy 9 - 25
9.5.1.1 Smoothing and applying corrections in SN and CL
tables 9 - 25
9.5.1.2 Running CLCAL for phase referencing observations 9 - 27
9.5.2 Processing observing log and calibration
information 9 - 28
9.5.2.1 Automatic formatting of VLBA and VLBA-like
log files 9 - 28
9.5.2.2 Manual formatting of log files 9 - 29
9.5.2.3 Loading calibration log information 9 - 30
9.5.2.4 Generating VLA amplitude calibration with VLAMP 9 - 31
9.5.3 Data editing 9 - 31
9.5.4 Amplitude and instrumental delay calibration 9 - 33
9.5.4.1 Parallactic angle correction 9 - 33
9.5.4.2 Digital sampler bias corrections for VLBA
correlator data 9 - 33
9.5.4.3 Instrumental phase corrections 9 - 34
9.5.4.4 "Manual" instrumental phase corrections 9 - 36
9.5.4.5 Bandpass calibration 9 - 38
9.5.4.6 Continuum amplitude calibration 9 - 39
9.5.5 Spectral-line Doppler correction 9 - 41
9.5.6 Spectral-line amplitude calibration 9 - 42
9.5.7 Phase calibration 9 - 43
9.5.7.1 Special considerations: SVLBI 9 - 44
9.5.7.2 Special considerations: spectral-line 9 - 45
9.5.7.3 Special considerations: polarization 9 - 45
9.5.7.4 Special considerations: phase-referencing 9 - 45
9.5.7.5 Correcting for atmospheric delays 9 - 46
9.5.7.6 Finding multi-band delays 9 - 47
9.5.7.7 Antenna-based fringe-fitting 9 - 47
9.5.7.8 Baseline-based fringe-fitting 9 - 53
9.5.7.9 SVLBI-specific techniques 9 - 56
9.5.7.10 Spectral-line fringe-fitting 9 - 56
9.5.7.11 Polarization-specific fringe-fitting 9 - 58
9.5.7.12 R-L delay calibration 9 - 59
9.5.7.13 Feed D-term calibration 9 - 60
9.5.8 Complex Bandpass 9 - 61
9.5.9 Baseline-based errors 9 - 62
9.6 After initial calibration 9 - 62
9.6.1 Applying calibration 9 - 62
9.6.2 Time averaging 9 - 63
9.6.3 Verifying calibration 9 - 64
9.7 Self-calibration, imaging, and model-fitting 9 - 66
9.7.1 CALIB 9 - 66
9.7.2 IMAGR, SCIMAG, and SCMAP 9 - 68
9.7.3 Non-conventional methods of imaging 9 - 68
9.8 Summary of VLBI calibration tables 9 - 69
9.9 Additional recipes 9 - 71
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10.1 AIPS format for single-dish data 10 - 1
10.1.1 On-the-fly data from the 12m 10 - 2
10.1.1.1 Listing OTF input files 10 - 2
10.1.1.2 Reading spectral-line OTF files into AIPS 10 - 3
10.1.1.3 Reading continuum OTF files into AIPS 10 - 4
10.1.2 Other input data formats 10 - 4
10.2 Single-dish data in the "uv" domain 10 - 5
10.2.1 Using PRTSD, UVPLT, and POSSM to look at your data 10 - 5
10.2.2 Using UVFLG, SPFLG, and EDITR to edit your data 10 - 7
10.2.3 Using CSCOR and SDCAL to calibrate your data 10 - 11
10.2.4 Using SDLSF and SDVEL to correct your
spectral-line data 10 - 12
10.2.5 Using SDMOD and BSMOD to model your data 10 - 13
10.3 Imaging single-dish data in AIPS 10 - 13
10.3.1 Normal single-dish imaging 10 - 13
10.3.2 Beam-switched continuum imaging 10 - 15
10.4 Analysis and display of single-dish data 10 - 19
10.4.1 Spectral baseline removal 10 - 20
10.4.2 Using WTSUM and BSAVG to combine images 10 - 21
10.4.3 Spectral moment analysis 10 - 22
10.4.4 Source modeling and fitting 10 - 22
10.4.5 Image displays 10 - 23
10.4.6 Backing up your data 10 - 24
10.5 Combining single-dish and interferometer data 10 - 24
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11.1 Helping the AIPS programmers 11 - 1 11.2 Exiting from AIPS 11 - 1 11.2.1 Backups 11 - 2 11.2.2 Deleting your data 11 - 2 11.2.3 Exiting 11 - 3 11.3 Solving problems in using AIPS 11 - 3 11.3.1 Terminal problems 11 - 3 11.3.2 Disk data problems 11 - 4 11.3.3 Printer problems 11 - 5 11.3.4 Tape problems 11 - 6
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12.1 AIPS conventions 12 - 1 12.1.1 AIPS shortcuts 12 - 1 12.1.2 Data-file names and formats 12 - 2 12.2 Process control features of AIPS 12 - 3 12.2.1 RUN files 12 - 3 12.2.2 More about GO 12 - 4 12.2.3 Batch jobs 12 - 5 12.3 AIPS language 12 - 6 12.3.1 Using POPS outside of procedures 12 - 8 12.3.2 Procedures 12 - 9 12.3.3 Writing your own programs with POPS 12 - 12 12.3.3.1 Special facilities for use in procedures 12 - 13 12.4 Remote use of AIPS 12 - 14 12.4.1 Connections via X-Windows 12 - 14 12.4.2 Connections to a terminal 12 - 15 12.4.3 File transfer connections 12 - 16 12.5 Moving data to a new computer 12 - 17 12.6 Adding your own tasks to AIPS 12 - 18 12.6.1 Initial choices to make 12 - 18 12.6.2 Getting started 12 - 19 12.6.3 Initial check of code and procedures 12 - 19 12.6.4 Modifying an AIPS task 12 - 20 12.6.5 Modifying an AIPS template task 12 - 21 12.6.6 Further remarks 12 - 22
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13.1 ADVERB 13 - 1 13.2 ANALYSIS 13 - 10 13.3 AP 13 - 13 13.4 ASTROMET 13 - 14 13.5 BATCH 13 - 14 13.6 CALIBRAT 13 - 15 13.7 CATALOG 13 - 21 13.8 COORDINA 13 - 24 13.9 EDITING 13 - 25 13.10 EXT-APPL 13 - 26 13.11 FITS 13 - 26 13.12 GENERAL 13 - 27 13.13 HARDCOPY 13 - 30 13.14 IMAGE-UT 13 - 30 13.15 IMAGE 13 - 31 13.16 IMAGING 13 - 31 13.17 INFORMAT 13 - 35 13.18 INTERACT 13 - 35 13.19 MODELING 13 - 37 13.20 OBSOLETE 13 - 38 13.21 ONED 13 - 39 13.22 OOP 13 - 40 13.23 OPTICAL 13 - 41 13.24 PARAFORM 13 - 41 13.25 PLOT 13 - 41 13.26 POLARIZA 13 - 45 13.27 POPS 13 - 46 13.28 PROCEDUR 13 - 48 13.29 PSEUDOVE 13 - 50 13.30 RUN 13 - 51 13.31 SINGLEDI 13 - 51 13.32 SPECTRAL 13 - 52 13.33 TABLE 13 - 54 13.34 TAPE 13 - 54 13.35 TASK 13 - 55 13.36 TV 13 - 66 13.37 TV-APPL 13 - 69 13.38 UTILITY 13 - 70 13.39 UV 13 - 71 13.40 VERB 13 - 78 13.41 VLA 13 - 84 13.42 VLBI 13 - 85 13.43 Additional recipes 13 - 87
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A.1 VLARUN A - 1 A.2 Basic calibration A - 2 A.3 Polarization calibration A - 5 A.4 Backup and imaging A - 5 A.5 Additional recipes A - 6
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B.1 Editing and calibrating spectral-line data B - 1 B.1.1 Loading the data B - 1 B.1.2 Inspecting and editing the data B - 2 B.1.3 Calibrating the data B - 3 B.2 Making and Cleaning image cubes B - 5 B.3 Moment analysis and rotation curves of galaxies B - 6 B.4 Multi-frequency observations B - 7 B.4.1 General frequency information B - 7 B.4.2 Multi-frequency uv files B - 7 B.5 Additional recipes B - 8
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C.1 Quick Guide C - 1 C.2 Table Philosophy C - 2 C.3 Data set assumed in this Appendix C - 2 C.4 VLBA Utilities C - 2 C.5 VLBA Pipeline C - 3 C.6 Data Loading and Inspection C - 5 C.7 Amplitude and Delay Calibration C - 6 C.8 Rate and Phase Calibration C - 8 C.9 Final Calibration Steps C - 10 C.10 Incorporating non-VLBA antennas C - 11 C.10.1 Loading T_sys and Gain Curves C - 11 C.10.2 Pointing Flags C - 12 C.11 Pre-EVLA VLA data C - 12 C.11.1 Single VLA Antenna C - 12 C.11.2 Phased VLA C - 12 C.12 Summary for non-VLBA antennas C - 13 C.13 Some Useful References C - 14 C.14 Additional recipes C - 14
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D.1 Additional recipes D - 7
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O.1 The Historical VLA O - 1
O.1.1 Reading from VLA archive files using FILLM O - 2
O.1.2 Reading old spectral-line data O - 6
O.1.3 Applying nominal sensitivities to historic VLA data O - 6
O.1.4 Calibrating historic VLA data O - 7
O.1.5 Editing with LISTR and UVFLG O - 7
O.1.6 Editing witth TVFLG O - 9
O.1.7 Spectral-line calibration O - 15
O.1.7.1 Spectral-line aspects of SETJY O - 16
O.1.7.2 Editing the spectral data O - 16
O.1.7.3 Calibrating the spectral data O - 17
O.1.8 Solar data calibration for the historic VLA O - 18
O.1.8.1 Reading solar data from the VLA archive O - 18
O.1.8.2 Using SNPLT and LISTR to assess the nominal
sensitivities O - 19
O.1.8.3 Using SOLCL to apply the system-temperature
correction O - 20
O.2 Old VLBI format data O - 20
O.2.1 Loading data from a MkIII/MkIV correlator O - 20
O.2.1.1 Running MK3IN O - 20
O.2.1.2 Sorting MkIII/IV data O - 22
O.2.1.3 Concatenating MkIII/IV data O - 22
O.2.1.4 Labeling correlator polarization data O - 23
O.2.1.5 Merging MkIII/IV data O - 23
O.2.1.6 Correcting MkIII/IV sideband phase offsets O - 24
O.2.1.7 Indexing MkIII/IV data O - 24
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L.1 P-band calibration and editing in AIPS L - 1 L.2 P-band imaging in AIPS L - 12 L.3 Additional Recipes L - 14
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F.1 Visibility (uv) data sets F - 1 F.1.1 uv database sizes F - 1 F.1.2 Compressed format for uv data F - 2 F.2 Image files F - 3 F.3 Extension files F - 3 F.4 Storing data on tape F - 4 F.4.1 DAT and Exabyte tapes F - 5 F.5 Very large data sets F - 6 F.6 Additional recipes F - 6
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V.1 Real-time calibration tables: TLCAL V - 1 V.2 Correcting antenna positions: LOCIT V - 2 V.3 Improving antenna pointing: PEEK V - 5 V.4 Improving antenna surfaces: holography V - 6 V.5 Antenna polarization: PDPLT V - 11
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Z.1 NRAO workstations - general information Z - 1 Z.1.1 The "midnight" jobs Z - 1 Z.1.2 Generating color hard copy Z - 1 Z.1.2.1 Color printers Z - 1 Z.1.2.2 Software to copy your screen Z - 2 Z.1.3 Gripe, gripe, gripe, .. Z - 3 Z.1.5 Solving problems at the NRAO Z - 3 Z.1.4.1 Booting the workstations Z - 3 Z.1.4.2 Printout fails to appear Z - 3 Z.1.4.3 Stopping excess printout Z - 4 Z.1.4.4 CTRL-Z problems Z - 4 Z.1.4.5 "File system is full" message Z - 5 Z.1.4.6 I can't use my data disk Z - 5 Z.2 AIPS at the NRAO AOC in Socorro Z - 5 Z.2.1 Reserving public-use workstations at the AOC Z - 5 Z.2.2 Using Linux workstations at the AOC -- introduction Z - 6 Z.2.3 Starting AIPS Z - 6 Z.2.3.1 Starting AIPS on another machine Z - 7 Z.2.3.3 On-line FILLM Z - 7 Z.3 AIPS at the NRAO in Charlottesvile and Green Bank Z - 7 Z.4 Additional recipes z - 7
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1.1 Basic AIPS flow diagram 1 - 6 4.1 3C48 at X-band 4 - 21 4.2 EDITA display 4 - 25 4.3 RFLAG display 4 - 29 4.4 Example antenna D term spectrum 4 - 35 4.5 Orion hot core at K band 4 - 42 5.1 Affect of ROBUST parameter on beams 5 - 10 6.1 UVPLT displays 6 - 7 6.2 Contour and grey-scale plots of an image 6 - 12 6.3 Row plots of an image 6 - 14 6.4 Statistical plots of an image 6 - 15 6.5 Slice and table plots 6 - 16 6.6 KNTR with polarization, LWPLA with color 6 - 31 6.7 KNTR truecolor image with contours, LWPLA colors 6 - 32 6.8 PCNTR polarization vectors in color 6 - 33 6.9 PCNTR contours in color 6 - 34 6.10 KNTR with contours colored with RGBLEVS 6 - 35 6.11 SNPLT with IFs/polarizations colored 6 - 36 7.1 Geometric and other functions on an image 7 - 14 8.1 KNTR contours of spectral channels 8 - 11 8.2 TVCUBE display of transposed cube 8 - 12 8.3 PLCUB display of spectra from a cube 8 - 13 8.4 Images of line cube moments 8 - 14 9.1 POSSM and VPLOT displays of uncalibrated VLBI data 9 - 50 9.2 Spectrum before and after calibration 9 - 54 9.3 An example of a fringe rate image 9 - 70 10.1 UVPLT displays of single-dish data 10 - 6 10.2 POSSM display of single-dish data 10 - 7 10.3 SPFLG display 10 - 10 10.4 Convolving function Fourier transforms 10 - 16 10.5 Images at various beam-throw rotations 10 - 19 10.6 Images at various beam-throw corrections 10 - 20 A.1 Visibility data before and after calibration A - 4 D.1 VPLOT of "bad" phases D - 2 D.2 VPLOT of "okay" phases D - 3 O.1 TVFLG display O - 12 V.1 Example LOCIT plot V - 4 V.2 Example holography raster V - 7 V.3 Example HOLOG images V - 9 V.4 Example PANEL images V - 10 V.5 Example PBEAM plots V - 11 V.6 Example PDPLT plots V - 12
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2.4.1 Banana daiquiri 2 - 12 3.12.1 Columbian fresh banana cake with sea foam frosting 3 - 21 3.12.2 Banana sweet potato puff casserole 3 - 22 3.12.3 Banana poundcake 3 - 22 3.12.4 Banana July cocktail 3 - 22 4.5.1 Chewy banana split dessert 4 - 40 4.5.2 Sopa de Platano 4 - 40 4.5.3 Mexican bananas 4 - 41 4.5.4 Almond fudge banana cake 4 - 41 4.5.5 Delightful banana cheescake 4 - 41 4.5.6 Banana relish 4 - 41 5.7.1 Cranberry banana bread 5 - 40 5.7.2 Mexican chicken vegetable soup with bananas 5 - 40 6.6.1 Churros de Platano 6 - 29 6.6.2 Easy banana bread 6 - 29 6.6.3 Hawaiian banana cream pie 6 - 30 6.6.4 Roasted turkey quesadillas with banana 6 - 30 7.8.1 Golden mouse 7 - 18 7.8.2 Orange gingered bananas 7 - 18 7.8.3 Coriander banana nut bread 7 - 18 8.7.1 Hot banana souffle 8 - 17 8.7.2 Curried bananas 8 - 17 8.7.3 Banana crunch cake 8 - 18 8.7.4 Panecillos de Platano 8 - 18 8.7.5 Banana-Rhubarb Crisp 8 - 18 9.9.1 Banana mallow pie 9 - 71 9.9.2 Banana Dream Pizza 9 - 71 9.9.3 Bananes roties 9 - 72 9.9.4 Banana curried chicken 9 - 72 9.9.5 Cream of banana soup 9 - 72 9.9.6 Banana pick-me-up 9 - 72 13.43.1 Sauted sole tabago with bananas, pecans, and lime 13 - 87 13.43.2 Banana Bombay Salad 13 - 87 13.43.3 Frozen Push-Ups 13 - 88 13.43.4 Banana coffeelate 13 - 88 13.43.5 Banana mandarin cheese pie 13 - 88 A.5.1 Banana colada A - 6 A.5.2 Breaded chicken and bananas A - 6 A.5.3 Banana-pineapple bread A - 6 B.5.1 Banana breeze pie B - 8 B.5.2 Banana cutlets B - 8 C.14.1 Orange baked bananas C - 14 C.14.2 Chicken salad with banana mayonnaise and grapes C - 14 D.1.1 Chocolate chip banana bread D - 7 D.1.2 Banana bran muffins D - 8 D.1.3 Banana-pineapple rum bread D - 8 D.1.4 Dulce Zacatecano D - 8 D.1.5 Virginia's instant banana pie D - 8 L.3.1 Banana storage L - 14 F.6.1 Banana stuffing F - 6 F.6.2 Banana nut bread F - 6 Z.4.1 Going bananas with bananas Z - 7 Z.4.2 Banana-chocolate tea bread Z - 8 Z.4.3 Banana caramel pie Z - 8 Z.4.4 Curried shrimp Z - 8
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CHAPTER DATE WHAT DONE
0 24/10/16 Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,9,11,12,13
24/06/03 Chapters 2, 3, 6, 13 STARTTV, MARSP, CALMODEL
24/03/28 Chapters 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 dropping TPMON
24/03/15 Update
23/06/20 Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, C
23/01/04 Chapters 4, 6, 9, 13, L
22/06/02 Chapters 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,13,C,D,V
22/05/03 Chapters 3,4,A,B,O,L achive
21/08/30 Chapters 4,5,6,7,9,12,13,C,O
20/10/21 Chapters 4, , 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, C, V
20/04/29 Chapters 4, 6, 9, 13, V
19/10/16 Chapters 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, C, L, V
19/03/12 Chapters 4, 6, 7, 9, 13, C, D, V
18/08/24 Appendix V
18/08/16 Chapters 3, 4, 6, 13
18/07/19 Chapters 4,5,6,7,9,13,C,O
18/02/22 Chapters 4, 9, O, drop E
17/11/22 Chapters 3,4,6,7,9,13,E,L
17/06/22 Chapters 2,4,6,7,9,13,E
16/11/11 Chapters 4,5,6,7,9,13,E
16/04/28 Chapters 1,6,7,8,13,L
15/12/21 Chapters 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,13,C,E
14/11/27 Chapters 6,7,9,13,C
14/10/10 Chapters 4,5,6,7,8,9,C,E
14/04/10 Chapters 3,5,6,7,8,9,11,E,Z
13/11/28 Chapters 1,4,5,6,7,8,9,12,C,E
12/10/08 Chapters 1,3,4,5,6,7,9,12,E
11/11/29 Chapters 2,4,5,6,7,8,9,12,E
11/07/29 Chapter E
11/04/19 Chapter E
10/11/29 Chapters 1,2,4-9,12,13,E
10/06/23 Chapter E
09/12/03 Chapters 1-9, 11-13, I
07/12/29 Chapters 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,A,B,C,D,F
06/06/09 Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, C, D
05/11/30 Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, B, C, D
04/11/14 Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, C
04/04/13 Chapter 4
04/04/07 Chapters 4, 9, A
04/03/21 Chapter 9
03/12/01 Chapters 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,C
03/01/24 Chapters 4,5,6,10,13,D
02/08/12 Chapters 3,4,5,6,7,9,12,C
02/03/27 Chapters 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,13,C,D,F
01/10/30 Chapter 9
01/06/01 Chapter 4, 5, 9, C
01/02/15 Chapter 9
01/01/10 Appendix C/D, minor updates
00/04/18 Upgrade to 31DEC00
99/03/30 Chapter 9 changes
98/11/18 LaTeX ends up with changed pagination
98/03/07 Chapter 9 revised and 13 updated
97/06/09 Chapter 4 and 5 updated, also recipes
97/05/27 Chapter 13 new page numbers
97/05/22 Chapter 9, 10 new pages, sections
96/01/30 Corrected NSF attribution statement
96/01/03 Heavily revised chapter 12
95/12/11 Update 13, new 7 and 10
95/10/24 Reference to chapter 10 -> 11
95/09/24 Change Appendix Z
95/09/12 Change Chapter 9, add index
95/07/11 Chapter 5 and 13 minor changes in page number, figure
95/06/20 Chapter 5 new contents, renumber 7-14 to 6-13
95/01/24 Chapter 10 new contents
1 24/03/15 version references
22/06/02 Lines of code, misc
20/10/22 Lines of code, misc
18/09/06 Lines of code, misc
18/02/22 Minor wording, new Appendix, references
16/04/28 Lines of code etc.
13/11/28 Lines of code etc.
12/10/08 Lines of code etc.
10/11/29 Appendix E
09/12/03 Update numbers, aips++ remarks, misc wordings
07/12/29 Update line/task counts, shiiping info, mailing
address, aips++ info, etc.
03/12/01 Update some statistics etc
01/01/10 New appendix, version dates/remarks
00/01/19 Line counts, parenthetical remarks, edition, etc
97/05/29 Update code sizes, CVX revision of CookBook
95/10/24 Reference to chapter 10 -> 11
95/06/20 Update section references
94/12/13 Update section references
2 24/10/16 TVRESTOR, STARTTV and issues with servers
24/06/03 STARTTV
24/04/25 AIPS man page, tv= default
24/03/28 Drop TPMON and tapes
24/03/15 XAS characters
23/01/04 typo in index
22/06/02 .Xresources
17/06/22 Max imum disk number now 71
16/11/11 Old version references
11/11/29 Tek and XAS iconification controls
10/11/29 .dadevs.always
09/12/03 Drop TIMDEST reference, misc minor wordings
08/11/03 A few notes re XAS changes
05/11/30 Mention KLEENEX instead of EXIT
03/12/01 Start up messages, screen server description
01/01/10 Minor typesetting, version
00/01/19 New copy of man page, true TV display
98/11/18 Added TV=local option and corrected wording re disks
97/05/29 Add TVSERV and change release to 15APR98
95/12/19 Minor typography correction
95/10/04 Correct CTRL T and CTRL Y for new readline meanings
95/09/22 Add READLINE information, update AIPS startup info
95/09/12 Change remarks on XAS for 15JAN95
94/12/14 Correct 2 typos (one about tvhost)
3 24/10/16 PRTHI, TUGET, SGuGET, SGUINDEX, TGUINDEX
24/06/03 STARTTV
24/03/28 TPMON, tapes
24/03/15 DISKU, TUGET
23/06/20 PLGET upgraded
22/06/02 STALIN uses task name
22/05/03 New archive
18/08/16 SCAT
17/11/22 abortask, waittask
16/11/11 Old version references
15/12/21 PRTMSG/PRTHI line count check, reword tape section
14/04/10 TGET file format, DISKU (DOALL)
12/10/08 M2CAT, U2CAT, IM2HEAD, Q2HEADER et al., pseudo AP
09/12/03 RECAT, AN file format, drop HORUS, MX, TIMDEST, WHATSNEW,
add FILEZAP, correct VLA archive web address
08/11/03 INFILE, OUTFILE changed; more text file name adverbs;
FILESIZE & SETMAXAP
07/12/29 REBYTE, wording re message server, web/street addresses
06/06/09 PLGET
05/11/30 KLEENEX, QINP, drop references to deleting outside AIPS
03/12/01 OUTPUTS, DEFAULT, disk files in FITLD, FILLM, FITAB
02/08/12 SG2RUN, path names
02/03/13 FITS disk procedure package
01/01/10 Fix file names, version
00/01/19 Terminal width/height handling, class names, VPUT
et al, UVCOP FG use, XHELP, TAPES, FITAB, WWW refs
97/05/29 HELP changed, WWW changed, CVX incompatible
96/01/03 One cross-ref to chapter 12
95/12/19 Minor error re extended hex corrected
95/10/24 Reference to chapter 10 -> 11
95/09/22 Hex is now extended hex (EHEX, REHEX mentioned)
95/06/20 Add GET4NAME, mention IMAGR, section renumbering
94/12/13 Update section references, add MOVE
4 24/10/16 FITTP (PL)
24/03/15 VH2RL
23/06/20 TECOR, TEPLT, BPPLT, MFIMG, CLIP, SNRMS, FRING (CHINC)
CLCOR (ANTP), SRCNAME, LISUN
23/01/04 xxyy -> vvhh, CALIB, VHCAL, RFLAG output, TEC, RLDIF vs time
22/05/03 old archive gone, describe new one
21/08/30 new archive, BPEDT, CROWDED=2
20/10/21 BPEPL, FIXFR, SYPRT, PDPLT
20/04/29 Perley models in CALDIR, CALRD plus MOD3D
19/10/16 PRTAN plot
19/03/12 Figures, SNBLP, BPASS, TYSMO, FRING, PO table
18/08/16 RLDLY BPARM option
18/07/19 FGSPW SOLINT, real UVRANGE, FRING BPARM option
18/02/22 Complete overhaul to describe EVLA
17/11/22 FGSPW
17/06/22 SETJY (2017), New Solar calibration
16/11/11 Old version references, BPEDT
15/12/21 De-emphasize tape, drop UVRANGE table, EDITA DO3COLOR,
SOUSP fix SNs, TVFLG LOAD LAST PIECE
14/10/10 TVFLG menu, figure, IF range, mention FTFLG
13/11/28 SETJY. EDITA, TVFLG, POSSM, CLCAL rewrite, LISTR
12/10/08 SNFLG, spectral SETJY, SNREF, use RLDIF not CLCOR,
self-cal before DOPLO application
11/11/29 RFLAG, ACLIP, REFLG, FGDIF, TVFLG (BASELINE-DT),
PCAL replace PMODEL with DOMODEL and prohibit it,
DOPRINT in RLDIF, SU table corrected by RLDIF,
DOAPPLY=-1 in 2nd run of rLDIF, SNIFS
10/11/29 FITTP, SY table, TVFLG labels, POSSM vector average,
CALIB average/normalization, SETJY 2010 & spectral
indwex, SOUSP, PCAL spectral
09/12/03 3C147 model, RLCOR, ATLOD now AIPS, SNFLG flags data,
GETJY robust average
08/11/03 INFILE, IN2FILE changed; UVFLG codes WILD/REAS; UVCOP
flag TY before TYSMO; WIPER falgs baseline; TVFLG channel
averaging; FILLM OF tables (OFLAG, PRTOF)
07/12/29 FILLM (corr coef), TYSMO/TYAPL, TAPPE, OUTFGVER,
CLIPM becomes CLIP, WIPER, VLANT, FITAB change,
VLACALIB does models
06/06/09 Model plot, TVFLG option, UVFLG UFLG operation,
new EDITA plot, DOCALIB=1, ANBPL, CALIB CPARM(7)
05/11/30 Emphasize model usage, CLCAL adverb INVERS, SNPLT SYMBOL,
baseline correction discussion modernized
04/11/14 SMOOTH warning, BPASS SOLTYPE added, CALRD file name
04/04/13 CALDIR, CALRD, and CALIB use V polarization
04/04/07 CL version number with CLCOR
04/03/21 RLDIF description replaces LISTR for polarization
03/12/01 VLARUN, FILLM from disk, CLCAL seriously changed
03/01/24 LOCIT/BASFIT mentioned, PRTTP/FILLM from disk
02/08/12 FILLM disk, INDXR does WX, WIPER
02/03/15 BPASS normalization, TVFLG (DPARM(5)), WETHR, FILLM
01/07/02 FILLM CPARM(7) changed meaning
01/06/01 VLACALIB change, DEFLG, SNFLG, VPFLG, FILLM ch-0
01/01/10 FILLM (DOWEIGHT); SETJY new flux systems
00/04/18 reword VLACALIB use, DOCAL=2, ICHANSEL, SPFLG
00/01/19 DEFAULT, NPRINT, CROWDED in EDITR and EDITA with
new figure and options, NPLOTS, FITAB
98/11/18 Clarified wording in special-case polarization cal
98/02/23 Correct 3C48 polarization angle, NPOINTS description
97/06/07 Add EDITA, change bandpass cal section, CALIB
closure error and FILLM Tant changes, new recipes
95/12/19 Minor typography correction
95/12/07 Cross references
95/09/12 Change HORUS to IMAGR
95/06/20 Update section references
95/04/06 Correct CLCOR usage on VLA baseline corrections
94/12/16 Correct CLCAL usage on polarization step 4
94/12/13 Update section references
5 24/03/15 primary beam, char mult, apcln center
23/06/20 AVGWT, BLPOLCAL, CLIP
22/06/02 New section evaluate, UVPLT time average
21/08/30 DBCON/VBGLU, image models, CROWDED, UNDO FLAGS
20/10/21 CXIMAGR, MASKS
19/10/16 UVADD, IMAGR on BMAJ set
18/07/19 IMAGR option IMSTAT
18/02/22 References
16/11/11 Old version references, UFLAG, FGCNT
15/12/21 De-emphasize tape, modernize wordings, OBOXFILE
temp file, EDITA/R DO3COLOR
14/10/10 IMAGR axis labels, stars, OBOXFILE option
14/04/10 UNClean boxes, BPWAY, TDEPEND
13/11/28 EDITR, IMAGR BOXFILE, HA2TI
12/10/08 OOCAL, SCMAP additions, IMAGR average channels,
SNFLG, self-cal before DOPLO
11/11/29 CALIB's DOAPPLY & NORMALIZE & self-cal approach,
RFLAG, OBIT imaging verbs
10/11/29 CALIB normalization
09/12/03 IMAGR (DO3D false, autobox, IM2P(7), restart after
filter, OVRSWTCH, baseline-length dependent averaging)
MX/HORUS, SABOX, FILIT, UVFND phase, FQUBE
08/11/03 INFILE changed; reword a little re IMAGR option to remove
weak/isolated components; multi-scale not
multi-resolution; adjust one SHIFT wording; reference
CCRES in units mis-match discussion
07/12/29 Wording esp CLIP, OUTFGVER, IMAGR mean additions,
OOSUB, WIPER improved, FILLM weights are good
06/06/09 STUFFR, PEELR, IMAGR beam size and spectral index,
DELBOX, DFILEBOX, EDITR options, CALIB CPARM(7),
CCRES
05/11/30 Mention RSTOR, add to FLAGR a hint
04/11/14 IMAGR SDI parameter, FIXBX, FLAGR, FINDR mentions,
CALIB changes: SOLTYPE, DOFLAG, WEIGHTIT
03/12/01 FITLD multiple disk files
03/01/24 VTESS > 4000 pointings
02/08/12 4096 fields, WIPER
02/03/13 BOXFILE options, BOXES
01/06/01 CHKFC, FACES, DEFLG, SNFLG
01/01/10 IMAGR remarks
00/01/19 512 fields, Proc MAPPR, DEFAULT, 16384 on a side,
shift meaning, IMAGRPRM, new options and algorithms
in IMAGR, FLATN, SETFC, SCIMG
97/07/11 Add information about OVERLAP imaging, restoration
97/06/09 Add 3DIMAG to IMAGR, replace IBLED with EDITR
95/12/07 Cross reference to Chapter 10
95/09/22 Add mention of FIXWT
95/07/05 Add figures on ROBUSTness to chapter
95/06/20 NEW chapter - replaces old 5 and 6 imaging chapters
94/12/13 Update section references (old chapter)
6 24/10/16 GRCHAN, STARTTV, TVRESTOR, DFTPL, TVCPS
24/06/03 STARTTV
24/03/15 CHAR MULT
23/06/20 LISUB, TEPLT, BPPLT
23/01/04 POSSM table plotting
22/06/02 CLOSE, UVPLT time average
21/08/30 UVPLT, VBRFI, PLRFI, RIRMS, TVDATA, TVBANDW, BPEDT
20/10/21 BPEPL, ISPEC, RSEC, TV2COLOR, SYPRT
20/04/29 PVPLOT, UVRMS, SPRMS
19/10/16 PRTAN, TVLABEL, TVWEDGE, Memo year update
19/03/12 Figures, TVIEW, SNBLP
18/08/16 OKCOLORS
18/07/19 PLOTC
17/11/22 PCHIS, PLOTR
17/06/22 PCNTR, TVSPC, AGAUS, ZAMAN, downplay Tektronix
16/11/11 Old version references, SLPRT, TVCOMPS, UFLAG,
BPEDT, PCFLG, PCEDT
16/04/28 TVSPC
15/12/21 Memo 119 (TVSAD), Memo 118 revised, TVHLD, TVMOVI
(DOALL), UVIMG, XG2PL, RM2PL, XGAUS (baseline
setting), Downplay magnetic tapes at the start
14/11/27 TVSAD, MFITSET
14/10/10 Rewrite hue-intensity for HUINT, LTYPE changes,
Memo 118
14/04/10 BLSUM plot files
13/11/28 DEFCOLOR, SNPLT MULT, coordinates, XGAUS, RMFIT, ZEMAN,
UVPLT channels, DSKEW
12/10/08 CHARMULT, TVHUI (hue transfer func, output wedge
image), SNPLT color by source
11/11/29 STVERS, IMFIT et al make STARS file, RSPEC output
options, SNIFS, HUEWEDGE
10/11/29 SNPLT SY tablem POSSM/BPLOT BD/PD/CP tables,
TVHELIX, RSPEC
09/12/03 ISPEC/BLSUM make SL files, REROAM amd ROAMOFF, FILIT,
CAPLT, UVPLT NCHAVG option
08/11/03 INFILE changed, XAS changes -> TVON etc, TVCPS, TVHUEINT
07/12/29 Wording, FUNCTYPEs, CORER cal, COPIXEL error
return, IMEAN
06/06/09 New color plots and IMEAN plot, color contours,
SNEDT TY, ANBPL, BPLOT, UVHGM, UVHIM, PLGET,
DELBOX, DFILEBOX
05/11/30 Add XGAUS to TV section, deprecate TeK
04/11/14 POSTSCRIPT.HLP, DOCRT=-3, PCNTR DOGREY, CBPLOT
03/12/01 More color in plotting, FITS disk reading, output
adverbs, gamma corrections, page full in plots
03/01/24 Color in plotting, PRTTP (disk hinted at), TVDIST,
SCLIM, LAYER
02/08/12 WIPER, IMEAN returns adverbs
02/03/15 PRTAB (NDIG), WETHR, TKERASE, TACOP
01/01/10 New COPIXEL; UVPLT options
00/04/18 Add section on TV with slices, add recipes from 13
00/01/19 Entering lower case, PRINTER, BPRINT et al, SNPLT,
TVROAM, truecolor TVs, PLOTR
98/03/08 Add COSTAR, EDITR, EDITA
95/12/07 Cross references to 7 and 10
95/09/12 Change remarks on TVRGB for 15JAN96
95/06/20 Renumbered chapter (7->6), changed references,
changed TVBOX and REBOX entries, added FILEBOX
94/12/13 Complete new chapter, combining old 7 and 8
7 24/10/16 UNSPX, DFTPL
24/03/15 IMEAN, primary beam
22/06/02 CMPLX
21/08/30 PBCOR, CCMOD, VBRFI ACIMG, DFTIM, uv statitical tasks
20/10/21 FTARS, MTARS, TARPL
19/03/12 Figures, IMFIT rms, TVIEW
18/09/17 DPARM/CPARM in SPIXR, SPFIX models from SPIXR output
17/11/22 FARS, RM2PL
17/06/22 DFTIM, TVSPC, AGAUS, ZAMAN, ELFIT, RMSD
16/11/11 Old version references, TVSPC, SLPRT, PBCOR, PATGN,
TVACOMPS, slice baseline, SL2PL
16/04/28 TVSPC
15/12/21 Memo 119, TVHLD, MCUBE forgiving, STACK, Memo 118
revised, XG2PL, RM2PL
14/11/27 TVSAD, MFITSET
14/10/10 memo 118, MODSP, BLSUM WEIG options
14/04/10 BLSUM plot file, RMFIT & MODIM include thickness
13/11/28 XGAUS, RMFIT, ZEMAN, MAXFIT/IMFIT/JMFIT, coordinates,
SPMOD
12/10/08 TARS, TARPL, QUXTR; SLICE with FQID, on 3rd axis,
no interp, and better text file; extend modeling
section to include GAL/CUBIT, MODIN, OMFIT, DTSIM,
UVHOL
11/11/29 FARS, AFARS, RFARS, DOFARS; IMEAN initial guess,
STVERS in IMFIT/SAD, UVFIT improvements
10/11/29 CONVL and RM added
09/12/03 ISPEC, BLSUM slices; UVMOD text file, FQUBE, FARS
08/11/03 CCRES changes units of residual, CONVL
07/12/29 IMCENTER, IMEAN, wording
06/06/09 CCRES, BLANK, MWFLT
05/11/30 TV under XGAUS, UVMOD spectral index, IMMOD 4 sources,
paragraph on SPIXR
04/11/14 MFPRT added option
03/12/01 Update PBCOR, IMDIST, IMEAN circular aperture
02/08/12 IMEAN returns adverbs
02/03/12 COMB (SUMM), RMSD, SAD, IMFIT, MFPRT
01/01/10 OHGEO, bad footnote, version, typesetting
00/04/18 TV replaces TK for slice fitting
00/01/19 Typo fix
98/03/08 Change COMB details on algorithms, noise images
96/01/03 Cross-ref chapter 12, mention AHIST and others
95/11/16 Rewritten analysis chapter
95/10/24 Correct references to chapter numbers
95/06/20 Renumbered chapter (8->7)
94/12/09 Renumbered chapter, SLICES inserted (not modernized)
8 24/03/15 version references
22/06/02 CLOSE
20/10/21 ISPEC
19/03/12 Figures
18/02/22 References
17/06/22 TVSPC, RMSD, AGAUS et al.
16/11/11 Old version references
16/04/28 TVSPC
15/12/21 MCUBE forgiving, TVMOVIE DOALL, Memo 118 revised,
UVFRE
14/10/10 Memo 118, HUINT
14/04/10 BLSUM plot files, SPECR non-Fourier methods
13/11/28 XGAUS, RMFIT, ZEMAN
11/11/29 RFLAG, REFLG, IMEAN initial guess, XMOM 'MAX' op,
ISPEC derivative, RSPEC output options
10/11/29 IMAGR et al units
09/12/03 ISPEC, BLSUM slices; MX, HORUS gone; IMAGR autobox/carry
boxes over between channels; FQUBE
08/11/03 INFILE changed
07/12/29 Wording, CUBIT, TAPPE, UVLSF
05/11/30 MCUBE DOCONCAT option
02/03/12 RMSD
01/01/10 Minor typesetting, version, example image classes
00/04/18 CHANSel -> ICHANSEL, SPFLG change, add TVSLICE
00/01/19 FLGIT, CLIPM, UVMLN, truecolor TVs, update wording
98/03/08 Update IMEAN discussion, add SERCH
95/12/07 Cross references to Chapter 10
95/09/12 Change remarks on TVRGB for 15JAN96
95/06/20 Renumbered chapter (9->8), added IMAGR
94/12/13 Complete new chapter, old chapter 10
9 24/10/16 TEPLT
24/03/15 version references
23/06/20 TECOR, TEPLT, MFIMG, BLPOLCAL, SNRMS, FRING (CHINC),
SRCNAME, LISUN
23/01/04 TEC, VLBRF
22/06/02 VLBARUN changes, closure
21/08/30 BPEDT, ACIMG, RIRMS, VBRFI, VLBARFI, VBGLU
20/10/21 VLBARUN, CXIMAGR
20/04/29 APCAL (PLOT), UVRMS, SPRMS
19/10/16 VLBARUN
19/03/12 FITLD weights, CLCOR EOPS, SNBLP
18/07/19 EDITA dispersive delay, VLBAEOPS/VLBATECR input files
17/11/22 PCAVG, PCRMS, PCHIS, Memo 123
17/06/22 PCASS, PCLOD
16/11/11 Old version references, BPEDT new PC tasks
16/08/17 DOCAL false for BPASS.
15/12/21 VLBARUN overhauled, chapter modernized heavily,
ACSCL, DOVLAMP, DIGICOR in FITLD, dispersion in
MBDLY and FRING, RLDLY, TYCOP, DELZN, EDITx CROWDED
with color
14/11/27 VLBARUN
14/10/10 CLCOR 'GAIN', BPASSP(10)->6, ANTAB before USUBA,
APCAL new options
14/04/10 USUBA SUBARRAY=0 meaning, RLDLY loop over refs,
DBAPP, CENTR and FQCENTR
13/11/28 BSCAN, CLCAL, CLVLB, EVLA-Y (VLAMP)
12/10/08 SNPLT color by source
11/11/29 SNIFS, flag TY tables in UVCOP/SPLAT, UVFIT limit
2.5 million now and other options.
10/11/29 RLDLY, FRING CHINC/halves, ACCOR usage, FITLD
ANTNAME, UVAVG options
09/12/03 SNPLT DOBLANK, RLCOR, FITLD read pre-processed archive
data but without DOCONCAT, VPLOT max/min, CLCOR 'IONO',
CAPLT, FRING DPARM(9) no rates, SNCOP for copying SN
tables, BLCAL ICHANSEL and BLCHN
08/11/03 INFILE, OUTFILE changed some places; add REAS/WILD to
UVFLG; VPLOT
07/12/29 DBCON corrected, UVCOP NX tables, VLBA verb,
TYSMO, OUTFGVER, correct LISTR, add WEIGHTIT to
CALIB, drop SLIME, rewording/typos lots of places
06/06/09 VBGLU, VBMRG, SNEDT, UVFLG UFLG, APCAL, par angle
05/11/30 www addresses, TECOR changes incl VLBATECR, CLCOR EOP
correction incl VLBAEOP
04/11/14 CLCAL (SELF), RLDIF, new flag tasks, BPASS changed
and complex solution section added, WEIGHTIT
04/05/06 AVSPC no longer does AVIF
04/04/07 CLCOR CL versions
04/03/21 Update DELZN and add multi-band delay sections
03/12/01 FITLD disks, CLCOR/DELZN section, SNSMO changes,
CLCAL changes, APCAL opacity fitting
02/08/12 QUACK tail, CLCAL use DOBLANK, xref, FRPLT
02/03/27 VLBAFIX, VLBASUBS, VLBAMPCL; BPASS remarks, POSSM
01/10/30 Add TECOR
01/06/01 More VLBAUTIL procs, DEFLG, 2 Gbyte limit
01/02/15 VLBAUTIL procs, general update
00/04/18 Use of DOCAL=2 for weight calibration (forgotten in
this chapter for SPLIT!)
00/01/19 SCIMG, NPLOTS, SNPLT options, CC filtering in IMAGR
99/03/30 Gain transfer, FITAB, phase re-referencing
98/03/07 Overhaul for Space VLBI, correct figures and index
97/05/23 Correct figures and index; add remarks about
SCMAP, EDITR, SNEDT
96/09/27 Polarization calibration
95/09/12 Updated for 15JUL95 ANTAB, APCAL, digital corrections
95/06/20 Renumbered chapter (10->9), added IMAGR replacing MX
95/01/24 "Final" edit completed, figures added
95/01/03 Re-written chapter, only partly done with final edit
10 16/11/11 Old version references
07/12/29 Wording improvements, time order for flagging, OUTFGVER
08/11/03 INFILE, IN2FILE changed
04/11/14 POSTSCRIPT.HLP, SPFLG plot is out of date
03/01/24 KNTR/LWPLA enhanced (color) description
01/01/10 Minor typesetting, version
00/04/18 Added remark about SPFLG and interferometer IFs.
00/01/19 add BSMOD, BSCLN, BSTST; DOCRT=1; ORDER, discussion
in BSAVG section
97/05/21 Added beam-switched continuum, SDLSF, and other CVX
additions and improvements
95/12/11 Wrote new chapter on single-dish data in AIPS
95/10/24 Replaced with outline for single-dish chapter
95/06/20 Renumbered old chapter (11->10)
95/01/03 Section and chapter renumbering of old chapter
94/03/17 Old chapter typeset for WWW
11 24/10/16 FITTP
24/03/15 tapes, TPMON
24/03/15 CLNUP
16/11/11 Old version references
14/04/10 DISKU (DOALL)
09/12/03 Drop TIMDEST several places
07/12/29 update wording, FITAB
01/01/10 Minor typesetting, version
00/01/19 FITAB
95/10/24 Rewritten with Gripe, backup, exit and modern
problem solving
95/06/20 Renumbered old chapter (12->11)
95/01/03 Section and chapter renumbering of old chapter
94/03/17 Old chapter typeset for WWW
12 24/10/16 FITTP
24/03/15 TPMON, tapes
24/03/15 TUGET
23/01/04 typo in index
21/08/30 80 -> 128 input line length
20/10/21 OFUDG
16/11/11 Old version references
13/11/28 RUN in a RUN
12/10/08 NAMEGET, GETVERS, QGETVERS
11/11/29 QCREATE
10/11/29 remote batch, ADDISK/REMDISK
09/12/03 Only private CA, FILEZAP, FQUBE, DELAY, several misc.
08/11/03 Added ACOS and ASIN; INFILE, OUTFILE changed for FITS
07/12/29 Tab completion, COPIXEL, FUDGE, move data to new
computer section
06/06/09 GETPOPSN
05/11/30 Section on useful verbs and tasks for procs incl SYSTEM
02/08/12 SG2RUN
01/02/15 Typo correction
01/01/10 File classes; tilde verb
00/01/19 Correct TV connectivity info, tv=local, EXTAB, FITAB
96/01/03 Rewrite to make up to date
95/09/22 Hex is now extended hex (EHEX, REHEX mentioned)
95/06/20 Renumbered old chapter (13->12)
95/01/03 Section and chapter renumbering of old chapter
94/06/07 Fix typesetting of old chapter
13 24/10/16 Update
24/06/03 STARTTV, MARSP, CALMODEL
24/04/03 Convert from verbatim to mostly tabular
24/03/28 OBSOLETE
24/03/15 Update
23/06/20 Update several
23/01/04 Update 14
22/06/02 update a few
21/08/30 Update quite a few
20/10/21 Update many
20/04/29 Update several
19/10/16 Update several
19/03/28 Obsolete things removed from help files
19/03/12 Numerous updated
18/09/06 Drop HYB, COMAP, typography
18/08/16 ABOUT for calibrat, catalog, task, verb, vla
18/07/19 numerous ABOUT files
17/11/22 several ABOUT lists
17/06/22 Update quite a few
16/11/11 Update 18 ABOUT lists
16/04/28 Update several
15/12/21 Update several
14/11/27 Update several
14/10/10 Updated numerous
14/04/10 Updated numerous
13/11/28 Updated many
12/10/08 Updated 27 ABOUT lists
11/11/29 Updated many
10/11/29 Updated many
09/12/03 Updated many
08/11/03 Updated many
07/12/29 Updated all
06/06/09 Updated
05/11/30 Updated
04/11/14 Updated
04/04/13 SYSTEM, CALRD, CALDIR and adverbs
04/04/07 Update of all lists (some were not changed)
03/12/01 Update of all lists (some were not changed)
03/01/24 Update of all lists (some were not changed)
02/03/20 Update of all lists (some were not changed)
01/06/01 Update of some lists (rest already okay)
01/01/10 Update of some lists (rest already okay)
00/04/17 Update of some lists (rest already okay)
00/01/19 Update of all lists
98/03/07 Update of all lists
97/05/27 Overdue update of all lists
96/01/18 Very minor update to modeling list
95/12/19 Minor update to analysis and for COMPRESS
95/12/11 Update lists to match current help files
95/09/22 Missing help files added to system and lists
95/07/11 Complete update to lists of 15JUL95 release
95/06/20 Renumbered chapter
95/01/03 Complete update to lists of 15JAN95 release
94/06/07 Complete update to lists of 15JUL94 release
A 22/05/03 New archive
18/02/22 References
09/12/03 Drop MX, HORUS, WFCLN, MAPIT proc; reword VLACALIB.
07/12/29 VLARUN section first, OUTFGVER, model in VLACALIB
04/04/07 RLDIF replaces LISTR for polarization
01/06/01 DOPRINT in VLACALIB
01/01/10 DOWEIGHT; DOCAL 2; ICHANSEL; MAPPR
94/12/13 New appendix
B 22/05/03 New archive
18/02/22 References
09/12/03 Wording corrections
08/11/03 INFILE -> DATAIN, UVFLG, archive web site, mention
multi-scale
07/12/29 Archive files not tape, FILLM parms, SETFC, reword
05/11/30 SAMPTYPE in CLCAL and add warning
01/07/02 FILLM CPARM(7) changed meaning
01/06/01 DOPRINT in VLACALIB
01/01/10 DOCAL 2; ICHANSEL; recipes
94/12/13 New appendix
C 24/03/15 version references
23/06/20 TECOR, SNRMS, CHING
22/06/02 VLBARUN
21/08/30 VLBARFI, spelling of VLBABPSS
20/10/21 VLBARUN
19/10/16 VLBARUN
19/03/20 FITLD weights, CLCOR (EOPS), SNBLP
18/07/19 VLBAEOPS/VLBATECR input files
15/12/21 Overhauled chapter for vLBARUN and VLBAUTIL new
methods
14/11/27 VLBARUN
14/10/10 BPASSP(5,10) changed
13/11/28 EVLA-Y (VLAMP)
08/11/03 INFILE changed to INTEXT, CALIN;
07/12/29 CLIP, OUTFGVER, UVCOP does NX, wording
06/06/09 HSA, emphasize parallactic angle correction
05/11/30 www addresses, flagging info for external telescopes,
TECOR and CLCOR EOP new procedures
04/11/14 SMOOTH dropped, BPASS changed, CVEL added
03/12/01 Cal transfer, APCAL, ...
02/08/12 REFANT not in VLBACALA
02/03/27 Overhaul to emphasize VLBA procs incl new ones
01/06/01 New VLBAUTIL procs, minor corrections
01/01/10 New appendix
D 22/06/02 indexing issue
19/03/12 SNBLP
16/11/11 Old version references
07/12/29 SNFLG mention, correct INDXR, emphasize models,
VLANT, rewordings (CL vers updated)
06/06/09 DOCALIB=1 does weights (100 does not)
05/11/30 AIPS-provided models, fix www addresses
02/03/27 New appendix (VLA high frequency hints)
O 24/03/15 references
22/05/03 New archive
21/08/30 DATAIN in FILLM
18/07/19 TVFLG allows up to 4 Stokes
18/02/22 New appendix - historic VLA, VLBI
E 18/02/22 ********* DELETED *************
17/11/22 FGSPW
17/06/22 REWAY, SETJY, IMSCAL, OOFRING, Solar cal
16/11/11 BPEDT, UFLAG, FGCNT
15/12/21 FRING dispersion, RLDLY SN tables, fix antique
wording places, FRING divide in > 2 parts, TVFLG
groups, SOUSP SN tables, UVRABGE -> break IFs into
separate files, SYCOP renamed TYCOP
14/10/10 Pgain in TYSMO and EDITA; SNPLT new OPCODEs,
spectral index curvature option in auto fit
14/04/10 RLDLY loop over refs, BPWAY, CENTR and FQCENTR,
SNP2D usage
13/11/28 SNPLT MULT, TYAPL CUTOFF, SYCOP, FTFLG, PCVEL, BPWGT,
LISTR, REIFS, SPFLG, CLIP, UVPLT, BPASS, BDAPL, BLCHN,
SNP2D
12/10/08 LISTR (SY), OOCAL, SETJY (VCAL), FRING/RLDLY
in quarters, LINIMAGE. SNFLG (A&P), MORIF, RFLAG
freq changes, INDXR EVLA gains and OBIT warning,
PRTSY, TYAPL (PGN)
11/11/29 PCAL does models only if 0, QUOUT/QUFIX, RLCAL.
11/07/29 Suggest new sequence, RFLAG in detail
11/04/19 BDF2AIPS, several other things
10/11/29 UVAVG OPCODE choices, POSSM APARM(1)=0 -> vector avg
10/06/23 Initial version included in CookBook
10/10/26 Updated version: polarization, SysPower, BDF2AIPS
L 23/01/04 VHMOD
22/05/03 New archive
19/10/16 XYMOD
18/07/19 Lots of minor rewordings and corrections
18/02/22 References, add polarization paragraph
17/12/19 EDITA, BPEDT, FGTAB
17/11/22 spectral-line cosiderations
16/04/28 Major re-write to be more explanatory and to refer
to modern P-band data
14/06/10 Correct RFLAG write-up
13/12/19 Initial version
F 16/11/11 Old version references
07/12/29 Drop 9-track, FITAB changed, fixed CL size
02/03/26 Rename appendix again
01/01/10 Rename appendix, FITAB for large-file tapes, formats
95/09/12 Chapter re-written, modern tapes discussed
94/03/17 Old chapter typeset for WWW
V 24/03/15 HOCLN, HOLIS, PANEL
23/06/23 OTF holography
22/06/02 PBEAM, HOLOG, PANEL
20/10/21 HOLOG, PDPLT
20/04/29 UVHOL fit option, replace figure to show it
19/10/16 UVCOP holography option
19/03/12 Figures, UVHOL
18/08/24 New appendix - VLA maintenance tasks
Z 24/03/28 Remove tapes mostly
14/04/10 Overhaul - mostly drop Charlottesville, add Green
Bank a little
01/01/10 Version, minor wording updates
00/02/02 Updated for changes at CV and AOC, drop film
recorder, change computers, etc
96/01/18 Change ftp to solitaire, Gripes by e-mail
95/10/24 Reference to chapter 10 -> 11
95/09/24 Drop AOC film recorder (it does not work)
95/06/20 One section reference renumbered
95/01/03 One section reference renumbered
94/10/18 Complete rewrite of NRAO-specific appendix
G 94/03/17 Old chapter typeset for WWW
I 24/10/16 Updated
24/06/03 STARTTV (2,3,6,13)
24/04/26 Chapter two
24/03/28 Updated
24/03/15 Updated
23/06/20 Updated
23/01/04 Updated
22/06/02 Updated
21/08/30 Updated with corrections
20/10/21 Updated
20/04/29 Updated
19/10/16 Updated
19/03/12 Updated
18/08/24 Appendix V, fix several errors
18/08/16 Chapters 3, 4, 6, 13
18/07/19 Chapters 4,5,6,7,9,13,C,O
18/02/22 Chapters 4, 9, O, drop E
17/12/19 Chapter L
17/11/22 Chapters 3,4,6,7,9,13,E,L
17/06/22 Updated
16/11/11 Updated
16/04/28 Updated
15/12/21 Updated
14/11/27 Updated
14/10/10 Updated
14/04/10 Updated
13/11/28 Updated generally
12/10/08 Updated for 1,3,4,5,6,7,9,12,E
11/11/29 Updated for 2,4,5,6,7,8,9,12,E
11/07/29 Updated for Appendix E
11/04/19 Updated for Appendix E
10/11/29 Updated
09/12/03 Updated
07/12/29 Updated
06/06/09 Updated
05/11/30 Updated
04/11/14 Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, C
04/04/13 Chapter 4, 13
04/04/07 Chapters 4, 9, A
04/03/21 Mostly Chapters 9 and C, a little 4 etc
03/01/24 Chapters 4,5,6,10,13,D
02/08/12 Chapters 3,4,5,6,7,9,12,C
02/03/27 General overhaul
01/10/30 Chapter 9
01/06/10 Chapter 4, 5, 9, 13, C updates
01/02/15 Chapter 9 update
01/01/10 Appendix C, D, minor updates
00/04/18 Chapters changed to 31DEC00
99/03/30 Chapter 9 changed
98/03/08 Chapters 6, 8, 9, 13 changed
97/06/09 Chapters 4, 5, 9, 10, 13 changed
96/01/03 Chapter 12 rewrite, chapter 7 additions
95/12/11 Chapters 7, 10, 13 updated
95/09/24 Update for chapter Z
95/09/22 Update for chapters 2,3,5,12
95/09/12 New index, never before available
all 18/09/06 Spell check, minor misc.
14/06/10 Update to palatino font
04/04/07 Update macros to allow html, clean up stuff
03/12/01 Switch font style, make PDF files available
98/11/18 To switch to LaTeX from basic TeX
95/09/12 To add indexing; visible text unchanged
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