[daip] SDI clean

Adam Ginsburg aginsbur at nrao.edu
Thu Aug 10 12:47:42 EDT 2006


I've been trying to do some SDI cleans, and I keep running into this error:
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: TABIO: BAD CODES - TYPE, OP =      0  WRIT

I'd like to play around with some parameters, but nearly every time I've tried
SDI cleans it runs into this error somewhere along the way, so I never
get an image to check.  Are there any parameters I should be
particularly careful about?

Thanks,
Adam



The whole of the SDCLN output and its inputs are below:
AIPS 2: SDCLN:  Task to deconvolve image with CLEAN & Steer/Dewdney/Ito
AIPS 2: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 2: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 2:                                    Dirty image
AIPS 2: INNAME     'U BAND COMB'              Image name (name)
AIPS 2: INCLASS    'IIM001'                   Image name (class)
AIPS 2: INSEQ         1                       Image name (seq. #)
AIPS 2: INDISK        1                       Image disk drive #
AIPS 2: BLC        *all 0                     Used to specify plane.
AIPS 2:                                    Beam image
AIPS 2: IN2NAME    'U BAND COMB'              Image name (name)
AIPS 2: IN2CLASS   'IBM001'                   Image name (class)
AIPS 2: IN2SEQ       13                       Image name (seq. #)
AIPS 2: IN2DISK       1                       Image disk drive #
AIPS 2:                                    Clean image
AIPS 2: OUTNAME    ' '                        Image name (name)
AIPS 2: OUTCLASS   ' '                        Image name (class)
AIPS 2: OUTSEQ        0                       Image name (seq. #)
AIPS 2: OUTDISK       1                       Image disk drive #
AIPS 2: INVERS       -1                    CC file ver. no.
AIPS 2:
AIPS 2: GAIN          0.1                  CLEAN loop gain
AIPS 2: FLUX          0                    Min. residual in window (Jy)
AIPS 2: PHAT          0                    Prussian hat size.
AIPS 2: NCOUNT       20                    # pixels > CUTOFF*peak to
AIPS 2:                                    switch from CLEAN to SDI
AIPS 2:                                    0 => no SDI method
AIPS 2: CUTOFF        0.8                  Cutoff for inclusion in SDI
AIPS 2: STFACTOR      0.1                  SDI loop gain
AIPS 2: NITER      5000                    Maximum # of CLEAN components
AIPS 2: BITER         0                    Begin at BITER component
AIPS 2: BMAJ          0                    FWHM(asec) maj. axis CLEAN
AIPS 2:                                    restoring beam.
AIPS 2: BMIN          0                    FWHM(asec) min. axis CLEAN
AIPS 2:                                    restoring beam.
AIPS 2: BPA           0                    CLEAN beam position angle
AIPS 2: NBOXES        0                    Number of boxes for CLEAN
AIPS 2: CLBOX      *all 0                  Four coordinates for each box
AIPS 2: FACTOR        0                    Speedup factor see HELP SDCLN
AIPS 2: MINPATCH     31                    Min. beam halfwidth in AP.
AIPS 2: MAXPIXEL   20000                   Maximum pixels searched in
AIPS 2:                                    each major cycle.
AIPS 2: DOTV         -1                    TV display of residuals?
AIPS 2: BADDISK    *all 0                  Disks to avoid for scratch.



SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Task SDCLN  (release of 31DEC06) begins
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Create U BAND COMB .ICL001.  10 (MA)  on disk  1  cno  151
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: DIRTY MAP ='U BAND COMB ' . 'IIM001' .    1   1
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: BEAM MAP = 'U BAND COMB ' . 'IBM001' .   13   1
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: CLEAN MAP ='U BAND COMB ' . 'ICL001' .   10   1
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: BLC =    1    1    1    1    1    1    1 / Plane CLEANed
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: OUTVER =    1 /CLEAN comp. file version no.
SUM-GI> SDCLN2:
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: BITER =        0 /No. of previous CLEAN comp.
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: GAIN =  0.1000 /CLEAN loop gain factor
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: FACTOR = 0.00 /Speed-up factor
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: FLUX =  0.00000E+00 /Min. CLEAN comp. (JY)
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: PHAT =  0.00000E+00 /Prussian hat size
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: BMAJS=   0.596074 BMINS=   0.532077 BPAD=  -6.360 /Clean beam
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: NBOXES =   1 /No. CLEAN windows
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: BOX( 1) =  2049,  2049,  6143,  6143 /CLEAN window
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: MINPATCH =   31 /Min allowed beam patch radius
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: MAXPIXEL=     20000 / Max pixels searched in cycle
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: STPOINTS=        20 / Pixels to start SDI
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: STFRACT =0.9800     / SDI clip level
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: STGAIN  =0.0180     / SDI loop gain
SUM-GI> SDCLN2:          7 Pixels above the SDI clip level  1.0000
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: In-AP CLEAN uses residual points brighter than   238.558 MicroJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: and a beam half-width of   31 cells
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: MAPPAK:   19961 Residual map points loaded into AP
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Reached min. algorithm flux = 584.335 MicroJy iter =       6
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Total CLEANed flux density = 456.230 MicroJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: at effective iteration =         6
SUM-GI> SDCLN2:         12 Pixels above the SDI clip level  0.9319
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: In-AP CLEAN uses residual points brighter than   230.604 MicroJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: and a beam half-width of   31 cells
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: MAPPAK:   19970 Residual map points loaded into AP
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Reached min. algorithm flux = 438.572 MicroJy iter =      18
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Total CLEANed flux density =   1.027 MilliJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: at effective iteration =        18
SUM-GI> SDCLN2:          8 Pixels above the SDI clip level  0.9736
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: In-AP CLEAN uses residual points brighter than   219.742 MicroJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: and a beam half-width of   31 cells
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: MAPPAK:   19970 Residual map points loaded into AP
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Reached min. algorithm flux = 360.178 MicroJy iter =      37
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Total CLEANed flux density =   1.764 MilliJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: at effective iteration =        37
SUM-GI> SDCLN2:         16 Pixels above the SDI clip level  0.9820
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: In-AP CLEAN uses residual points brighter than   207.675 MicroJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: and a beam half-width of   31 cells
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: MAPPAK:   19962 Residual map points loaded into AP
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Reached min. algorithm flux = 294.836 MicroJy iter =      59
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Total CLEANed flux density =   2.336 MilliJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: at effective iteration =        59
SUM-GI> SDCLN2:         19 Pixels above the SDI clip level  0.9739
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: In-AP CLEAN uses residual points brighter than   198.776 MicroJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: and a beam half-width of   31 cells
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: MAPPAK:   19968 Residual map points loaded into AP
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Reached min. algorithm flux = 268.215 MicroJy iter =      86
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Total CLEANed flux density =   2.749 MilliJy
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: at effective iteration =        86
SUM-GI> SDCLN2:         30 Pixels above the SDI clip level  0.9830
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Begin Steer/Dewdney/Ito method at component      87
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: TABIO: BAD CODES - TYPE, OP =      0  WRIT
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Destroyed  1 extension files of type HI
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Destroyed  1 extension files of type CC
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Destroyed MA image file: catno=    151 disk= 1
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
SUM-GI> SDCLN2: sum-ginsburg 31DEC06 TST: Cpu=      90.2  Real=     944




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