[daip] WIPER

Amy Mioduszewski amiodusz at aoc.nrao.edu
Fri Feb 18 16:47:50 EST 2005


I have found an annoyance in WIPER.  When I am using FLAG AREA,
and accidentally hit B or C instead of A to switch from BLC to TRC;
WIPER aborts.  Of course, hitting B or C is the wrong thing to do,
but at minimum it should just ignore it not abort.

Thanks,

Amy

P.S.
Here are my messages and inputs:

WIPER1: Task WIPER  (release of 31DEC05) begins
WIPER1: WIPEIN: USING STOKES 'I   ' INSTEAD OF '    '
WIPER1: PLOTUV: X axis in Kilo Wavlngth        3.858E+00  8.101E+00
WIPER1: PLOTUV: Y axis in MilliJanskys         7.275E+03  7.747E+03
WIPER1: PLOTUV:     105099 Points put in array
WIPER1: Press buttons A, B, or C to choose an operation
WIPER1: Press button D for on-line help
WIPER1: Hit button A to switch between BLC and TRC
WIPER1: Hit button B to mark final box, loop for more
WIPER1: Hit button C to mark final box, return to menu
WIPER1: Hit button D to exit - no further flagging
WIPER1: Press buttons A, B, or C to choose an operation
WIPER1: Press button D for on-line help
WIPER1: Hit button A to switch between BLC and TRC
WIPER1: Hit button B to mark final box, loop for more
WIPER1: Hit button C to mark final box, return to menu
WIPER1: Hit button D to exit - no further flagging
WIPER1: ZABORS: signal 11 received
WIPER1: ABORT!

AIPS 1: WIPER     Plots and edits data from a u,v data base using TV
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: USERID        0                    Data base owner number
AIPS 1: INNAME     '1331 C D    '          Input UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS    'CALIB '                Input UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ         8                    Input UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK        1                    Input UV file disk unit #
AIPS 1: SOURCES    *all ' '                Sources to plot, ' '=>all.
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: CALCODE    '    '                  Calibrator code '    '=>all
AIPS 1: STOKES     '    '                  Stokes type to select.
AIPS 1: SELBAND      -1                    Bandwidth to select (kHz)
AIPS 1: SELFREQ      -1                    Frequency to select (MHz)
AIPS 1: FREQID       -1                    Freq. ID to select.
AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time range to select
AIPS 1: ANTENNAS   *all 0                  Antennas to plot
AIPS 1: BASELINE   *all 0                  Baselines with ANTENNAS
AIPS 1: UVRANGE       4           8        UV range in kilolambda.
AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray, 0 => all
AIPS 1: BCHAN         1                    1st spectral channel #
AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Last spectral channel #
AIPS 1: CHINC         1                    Increment in channel #
AIPS 1: BIF           0                    Low IF number to plot
AIPS 1: EIF           0                    Highest IF number to plot
AIPS 1: DOCALIB      -1                    If >0 calibrate data
AIPS 1:                                    = 2 calibrate weights
AIPS 1: GAINUSE       2                    CAL (CL or SN) table to apply
AIPS 1: DOPOL        -1                    If >0 correct polarization.
AIPS 1: BLVER        -1                    BL table to apply.
AIPS 1: FLAGVER       0                    Flag table version
AIPS 1: DOBAND       -1                    If >0 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: BPARM      *all 0                  Control parameters
AIPS 1:                                    1 : X-axis type 0=>UV dist
AIPS 1:                                    2 : Y-axis type 0=>Ampl
AIPS 1:                                        1=> amplitude (Jy)
AIPS 1:                                        2=> phase (degrees)
AIPS 1:                                        3=> uv dist. (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                        4=> uv p.a. (deg N->E)
AIPS 1:                                        5=> time (IAT days)
AIPS 1:                                        6=> u (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                        7=> v (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                        8=> w (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                        9=> Re(Vis) (Jy)
AIPS 1:                                        10=> Im(Vis) (Jy)
AIPS 1:                                        11=> time (IAT hours)
AIPS 1:                                        12=> log(ampl)
AIPS 1:                                        13=> weight
AIPS 1:                                        14=> HA (hours)
AIPS 1:                                        15=> elevation (deg)
AIPS 1:                                        16=> parallactic angle
AIPS 1:                                        17=> uv dist. (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                             along p.a.
AIPS 1:                                        18=> azimuth (deg)
AIPS 1:                                    3 : > 0.0 => fixed scale
AIPS 1:                                        < 0.0 => fixed range
AIPS 1:                                    4 : Xmin (fixed scale)
AIPS 1:                                    5 : Xmax (fixed scale)
AIPS 1:                                    6 : Ymin (fixed scale)
AIPS 1:                                    7 : Ymax (fixed scale)
AIPS 1:                                    9 : radius of fat wiper
AIPS 1:                                    10: > 0 => plot auto-corr too
AIPS 1: REFANT        8                    > 0 => use REFANT for plot
AIPS 1:                                    types 14, 15, 16
AIPS 1: ROTATE        0                    uv p.a. for projection
AIPS 1:                                    (deg N->E); type 17 only
AIPS 1: IMSIZE      512         512        Size of plot in memory
AIPS 1: DOCENTER      1                    Place menu at left (-1),
AIPS 1:                                    center (1), right (0)
AIPS 1: DOALL        -1                    bit 1 flag all channels
AIPS 1:                                    bit 2 flag all IFs if 1
AIPS 1:                                    bit 3 flag all polarizations
AIPS 1: BADDISK    *all 0                  Disk to avoid for scratch.





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