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BIMA
AIPS++
Cookbook
Current version edited by A. P. Sarma
Original 2001 version edited by LAUGH
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Contents
Introduction
Overview
Basic Operations
Overview
What do I need to do beforehand?
What
AIPS++
Web resources are available?
How do I login and launch
AIPS++
?
What are these windows that appear when I start
AIPS++
?
How do I exit from
AIPS++
?
Something's gone wrong! How can I force an exit?
How do I figure out what the different buttons on a GUI do?
How do I make selections in the GUI menus?
How can I get (an edit) window outside of
AIPS++
to respond?
How do I obtain BIMA test data?
How do I get a File catalog GUI?
How do I find a
tool
?
How do I know when there is an error?
How do I find the
Glish
equivalent of a GUI operation?
Creating Your First Tool (Importing Data into
AIPS++
)
Overview
How do I create a
tool
?
What is that wrench thingy?
How do I use a tool function?
How do I get help on a tool?
How do I get rid of a tool?
How do I import my Miriad
uv
-data into AIPS++
How do I do the same thing in
Glish
?
How do I import my FITS
uv
-data into AIPS++
Inspecting UV data
Overview
How do I plot the
uv
-data using the
Imager
tool?
How do I examine the
uv
-data using
Msplot
?
How do I list the spectral parameters of the
uv
-data?
Editing UV data
Overview
How do I flag
uv
-data?
How do I carry out all the above steps to flag
uv
-data using glish?
How do I re-generate the wideband data after flagging?
Calibration of uv data
Overview
How do I calibrate the data?
How do I carry out the above steps to calibrate the
uv
-data using glish?
Imaging
Overview
What do I need to do to start imaging my uv dataset?
What is the quickest way to make and view a dirty map?
How do I let
AIPS++
set/suggest the imaging parameters?
How do I make a dirty map?
How can I view the dirty map?
How can I add contours to the image?
How do I make other types of maps, like the beam?
How do I specify the image parameters before making a map?
How do I select the visibility data to process?
(similar to the miriad keyword
select
in
invert
)
How do I weight the uv data prior to making a dirty map? (similar to the miriad keyword
sup
in
invert
)
How do I apply a uv taper? (similar to the miriad keyword
fwhm
in
invert
)
How do I select the uv range? (similar to the miriad keyword
select
in
invert
)
How do I weight the uv visibilities with respect to
systemp
?
How do I Clean and Restore the image?
How do I deconvolve the image using
clean
?
How do I restart a clean?
What other clean algorithms can I use?
How do I restore the full image and why isn't the restored image from `Clean' good enough?
How do I use multi-scale Clean?
How do I set the clean region before CLEANing?
How do I perform all the above steps on the command line using
Glish
?
Using the Viewer
Overview
How do I look at an image?
How do I load an image into the
Viewer
?
What do all those buttons do?
How do I select a particular channel?
How do I adjust the intensities?
How do I zoom the image?
How do I draw a box or region?
How do I undo what I just did?
i.e.
remove the box.
How do I get the contours as well as the raster scan image?
How do I use the adjust-button GUI?
How do I change colors?
How do I get axes and axis labels to show up?
How do I change/add a coordinate grid?
How do I get rid of the graphics I added?
How do I print/save the plot/image that is on the screen?
Defining and using regions
Overview
What is a region and what does a Regionmanager GUI do?
How do I bring up a regionmanager GUI?
How do I create a region using the regionmanager GUI?
How do I save a region?
How do I find out what regions exist?
How do I delete a region from its associated image or table?
How do I restore a region to the Regionmanager GUI?
How do I see the contents of the particular region?
How do I use created/saved regions as input parameters to a function?
Analyzing images
Overview
How do I create an
AIPS++
image from a fits image?
How do I create an image
tool
?
How do I view the image or spectral cube?
How do I make a subimage?
How do I use the wrench to help supply an input parameter?
How do I get statistics of an image or spectral cube?
How can I save/print an image?
About this document ...
Anuj Sarma 2002-07-11
