[daip] new JMFIT feature

[Eric Greisen]

Mark Reid wrote:
> 
> Eric,
> 
>    We area about to start a VLBA Key Project to measure parallaxes and 
> proper motions of up to 400 maser sources in the Galaxy (using about 20% 
> of the VLBA time for 5 years).  So we will have a lot of data to 
> analyze, and we will be doing a lot of position fitting (including maser 
> spot maps).  It would be a great help if JMFIT could have 1-line text 
> output to a disk file that summarized the fitting of each Gaussian.
> 
> We have such a modified version of JMFIT we call ORFIT (ORion FIT) which 
> we have used for decades and which writes out a text line in a useful 
> and now standard format.  I've attached a copy of the FORTRAN code of 
> ORFIT.
> 
> The problem is that ORFIT needs to be re-installed every year on every 
> machine serving AIPS for our groups across the world.  It would be a 
> great help if it could be incorporated in to AIPS, probably as an option 
> in JMFIT.
> 
> I've attached an example of ORFIT format output.  Most of the fields are 
> self-explanatory, but the first 12 characters contain the map file name, 
> truncated if necessary in columns 1-10, followed by the last 2 
> characters of the map number (eg for ICL039 it would be "39" in columns 
> 11-12).
> 
> Finally, for some complex masers, we might also want to use SAD for 
> position fitting.  Could SAD also have the same output format?

I have put back JMFIT, IMFIT, and SAD with this feature under the option 
DOCRT=-4.

It is in 31DEC10 only.

Eric Greisen