[daip] GAL

Jessica Rosenberg jlrosenberg at cfa.harvard.edu
Mon Jul 10 15:41:24 EDT 2006


Hello,

I am trying to run GAL and am experiencing some trouble... I am running 
the routine on a blanked cube to get the rotation curve. The problem is 
that I am getting an error message that I don't understand and the 
routine does not appear to be doing any fitting (doesn't seem to even 
be going through an iterations) so I am hoping you can offer a 
suggestion about what is going wrong (I have tried this over a range of 
radii and using 'ex' as the function as well as 'cc' and the results 
are the same). Here is the information that is returned by the routine:

 >go
AIPS 2: Waiting for returned adverbs
GAL  2: Task GAL    (release of 31DEC06) begins
GAL  2:  # pixels:  70747, # non-blanked :      0
GAL  2: cc curve, Rmin=  20 Rmax=  50 arcsec
GAL  2: COSmin = -1.00 COSmax =  1.00
GAL  2: SINmin = -1.00 SINmax =  1.00
GAL  2:  *** no special weighting, all weights unity ***
GAL  2: GAL : information parameter #  0
GAL  2:  after   0 iterations the solution vector is
GAL  2:   254.00  254.00  162.00   54.00 1225.00   80.00   15.00  1.00
GAL  2:     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  0.00
GAL  2: R.A. : 11 26 47.00        Dec :  59 08 50.00
GAL  2:                 0.00                       0.00
GAL  2: Create IC691_3_B5  .GAL   .  14 (MA)  on disk  1  cno   30
GAL  2: ZTXOP2: using translated file name =
GAL  2: ZTXOP2: /home/jlrosenb/IC691/newincl_rotcur.txt
GAL  2: X, Y RANGES   0.0000E+00   0.0000E+00 IMPROPER
GAL  2: PLAXES: IERR = -1
GAL  2: ZCLOSE: LUN = 16 ALREADY CLOSED IN FTAB ON SEARCH
GAL  2: returns adverbs to AIPS
GAL  2: Appears to have ended successfully
GAL  2: rglinux5     31DEC06 TST: Cpu=       0.1  Real=       0
AIPS 2: Resumes

The parameters are set as follows:

AIPS 2: GAL Task to determine parameters from a velocity field.
AIPS 2: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 2: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 2: USERID        0                    User ID.  0=>current user
AIPS 2:                                      32000=>all users
AIPS 2: INNAME     'IC691_3_B5'            Image name
AIPS 2: INCLASS    'BLANK'                 Image class
AIPS 2: INSEQ         1                    Image seq. #
AIPS 2: INDISK        1                    Disk drive #
AIPS 2: IN2NAME    ' '                     Weight image name
AIPS 2: IN2CLASS   ' '                     Weight image class
AIPS 2: IN2SEQ        0                    Weight image seq. #
AIPS 2: IN2DISK       0                    Weight image disk drive #
AIPS 2: OUTNAME    ' '                     Output image name (name)
AIPS 2: OUTCLASS   ' '                     Output image name (class)
AIPS 2: OUTSEQ        0                    Output image name (seq. #)
AIPS 2: OUTDISK       1                    Output disk drive #
AIPS 2: BLC        *all 0                  Bottom left corner of image
AIPS 2:                                      0=>entire image
AIPS 2: TRC         263         269        Top right corner of image
AIPS 2:              38        *rest 0       0=>entire image
AIPS 2: SOLCON      0.001                  Convergence criterion.
AIPS 2:                                      0=> 0.001
AIPS 2: FUNCTYPE   'cc'                    Type of rotation curve: 'BR':
AIPS 2:                                    Brandt, 'EX' : exponential,
AIPS 2:                                    'CC' : constant, 'SB' : solid
AIPS 2:                                    body.
AIPS 2: APARM       254         254        First guesses to parameters:
AIPS 2:             162          54        1: x - coordinate centre, 2:
AIPS 2:            1225          80        y - coordinate centre, 3: po-
AIPS 2:              15           1        sition angle major axis, 4:
AIPS 2:               0           0        inclination, 5: systemic ve-
AIPS 2:                                    locity, 6: maximum velocity,
AIPS 2:                                    7: radius maximum velocity
AIPS 2:                                    ("), 8: exponent (0=>1).
AIPS 2: CPARM         2           1        (1) : residual map; 0 : none,
AIPS 2:            *rest 0                 1 : uses whole field, 2 :
AIPS 2:                                    uses selected field, 3: uses
AIPS 2:                                    values from INFILE. (2) :
AIPS 2:                                    0/1 : plot (no/yes). (3) :
AIPS 2:                                    fixed parameters. (4) : 0/1:
AIPS 2:                                    use IN2C map for weighting
AIPS 2:                                    (no/yes) 5: 0/1: copy old
AIPS 2:                                    history (no/yes) 6: 0: write
AIPS 2:                                    one line to output;-1/1 write
AIPS 2:                                    position to output file.
AIPS 2: DPARM        20          50        1 : lower limit radius; 2 :
AIPS 2:            *rest 0                 upper limit radius; 3 : lower
AIPS 2:                                    limit cos (pos. angle in ga-
AIPS 2:                                    laxy); 4 : upper limit; 5 and
AIPS 2:                                    6 : idem for sine; 7 : max.
AIPS 2:                                    plotted radius; 8: max. plot-
AIPS 2:                                    ted rot. velocity; 9 :0 (def)
AIPS 2:                                    => fit parameters, 1=> just
AIPS 2:                                    plot using inputs. 10: width
AIPS 2:                                    annuli (in pixel separation).
AIPS 2: INFILE     ' '
AIPS 2:                                    Text file containing rotation
AIPS 2:                                    curve information.
AIPS 2: OUTFILE    '/home/jlrosenb/IC691/newincl_rotcur.txt'
AIPS 2:                                    Text file to which one line
AIPS 2:                                    of output results is written.
AIPS 2: PIXSTD        0                    Estimated rms uncertainty in
AIPS 2:                                    the observed radial velocity
AIPS 2:                                    (km/s) at one pixel.  0=>10
AIPS 2: FACTOR        0                    Scale plot symbol by FACTOR
AIPS 2: DOTV          1                    > 0 Do plot on the TV, else
AIPS 2:                                    make a plot file
AIPS 2: GRCHAN        1                    Graphics channel 0 => 1.

The output file gives:

   20.0  50.0 254.0 254.0  162.0  54.0 1225.0  80.0   0.0   0.0

Thanks!
Jessica

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Jessica Rosenberg
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street, MS 65
Cambridge, MA 02138-1516

Phone: 617-496-7740
E-mail: jlrosenberg at cfa.harvard.edu
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