[daip] Can't run IMAGR on data

Andy Biggs abiggs at eso.org
Tue Dec 6 10:54:04 EST 2011


Hi. I've just finished the flagging and calibration of an EVN dataset - everything went very smoothly. As soon as I try and image the data though I get the following error:

localh> IMAGR1: Task IMAGR  (release of 31DEC11) begins
localh> IMAGR1: Doing no flagging this time
localh> IMAGR1: Create HDF259      .IMAGR .   1 (UV)  on disk  1  cno    2
localh> IMAGR1: Beginning channel    1 through   16 with  8 IFs
localh> IMAGR1: IMACPY: NO DATA SELECTED
localh> IMAGR1: IMACPY: ERROR COPYING Input UVdata
localh> IMAGR1: TO UVdata work object
localh> IMAGR1: Blanking channel    1 image plane
localh> IMAGR1: OBRGET: KEYWORD CNO NOT FOUND
localh> IMAGR1: KEYWORD =CNO
localh> IMAGR1: OBRGET: PROBLEM WITH OBJECT: CLEAN field number 0001
localh> IMAGR1: IMABLK: ERROR BLANKING CLEAN field number 0001
localh> IMAGR1: NO DATA FOUND
localh> IMAGR1: Deleting UV work file:
localh> IMAGR1: Destroyed UV image file: catno=      2 disk= 1
localh> IMAGR1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
localh> IMAGR1: localhos 31DEC11 TST: Cpu=      4.1  Real=     48  IO=       972

I get the same error whether I use the multi-source file with calibration applied, or a split file with the calibration already applied. I also have no problems with any other tasks - plotting in POSSM, VPLOT and WIPER works fine. I have also tried this on two computers, a Linux box and a MacbookPro, with the same results.

My inputs to IMAGR seem to be very boring:

AIPS 1: IMAGR: Wide field imaging/Clean task
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: INNAME     'HDF259'                Input UV data (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS    'SPLIT'                 Input UV data (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ         1                    Input UV data (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK        1                    Input UV data disk drive #
AIPS 1: SOURCES    'HDF259'                Source name
AIPS 1:            *rest ' '
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Calibrator qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: CALCODE    ' '                     Calibrator code '    '=>all
AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time range to use
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: SUBARRAY      0                    Sub-array, 0=>all
AIPS 1: ANTENNAS   *all 0                  Antennas to plot
AIPS 1: BASELINE   *all 0                  Baselines with ANTENNAS
AIPS 1: DOCALIB      -1                    > 0 calibrate data & weights
AIPS 1:                                    > 99 do NOT calibrate weights
AIPS 1: GAINUSE       0                    CL (or SN) table to apply
AIPS 1: DOPOL        -1                    If >0.5 correct polarization.
AIPS 1: PDVER         0                    PD table to apply (DOPOL>0)
AIPS 1: BLVER        -1                    BL table to apply.
AIPS 1: FLAGVER       0                    Flag table version
AIPS 1: DOBAND       -1                    If >0.5 apply bandpass cal.
AIPS 1:                                    Method used depends on value
AIPS 1:                                    of DOBAND (see HELP file).
AIPS 1: BPVER         0                    Bandpass table version
AIPS 1: SMOOTH     *all 0                  Smoothing function. See
AIPS 1:                                    HELP SMOOTH for details.
AIPS 1: STOKES     'I'                     Stokes parameters (see HELP)
AIPS 1: BCHAN         1                    Low freq. channel 0 for cont.
AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest freq channel
AIPS 1: CHANNEL       0                    Restart channel number
AIPS 1: NCHAV       128                    Number of chan. to average.
AIPS 1: CHINC         0                    Channel incr. between maps.
AIPS 1: BIF           1                    First IF in average.
AIPS 1: EIF           8                    Last IF in average.
AIPS 1: OUTNAME    ' '                     Output image name (name)
AIPS 1: OUTDISK       1                    Output image disk drive #
AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        0                    Output seq. no.
AIPS 1: OUTVER        0                    CC ver. no (Continuum only)
AIPS 1:                                    *** SET OUTVER ON RESTARTS
AIPS 1: IN2NAME    ' '                     UV work file name
AIPS 1: IN2CLASS   ' '                     UV work file class
AIPS 1: IN2SEQ        0                    UV work file seq
AIPS 1:                                    *** SET TO KEEP WORK FILE
AIPS 1: IN2DISK       1                    UV work file disk
AIPS 1: CELLSIZE      1           1        (X,Y) size of grid in asec
AIPS 1: IMSIZE      512         512        Minimum image size
AIPS 1: NFIELD        1                    Number of fields (max 4096)
AIPS 1: DO3DIMAG     -1                    > 0 => use different tangent
AIPS 1:                                    points for each field
AIPS 1: FLDSIZE    *all 0                  Clean size of each field.
AIPS 1: RASHIFT    *all 0                  RA shift per field (asec)
AIPS 1: DECSHIFT   *all 0                  DEC shift per field (asec)
AIPS 1: UVTAPER       0           0        (U,V) Gaussian taper
AIPS 1:                                      units are kilo-lambda
AIPS 1: UVRANGE       0           0        Min & max baseline (klambda)
AIPS 1: GUARD         0           0        x,y guard band fractional
AIPS 1:                                    radius
AIPS 1: ROTATE        0                    Rotate image CCW from N by
AIPS 1:                                    ROTATE degrees
AIPS 1: ZEROSP     *all 0                  0-spacing fluxes and weights
AIPS 1:                                    SEE HELP!!
AIPS 1: UVWTFN     'NA'                    UV dist. weight function
AIPS 1: UVSIZE        0           0        Array size for doing uniform
AIPS 1:                                    weights.  0 -> actual field
AIPS 1:                                    size.
AIPS 1: ROBUST        0                    Robustness power: -5 -> pure
AIPS 1:                                    uniform weights, 5 => natural
AIPS 1: UVBOX         0                    Additional rows and columns
AIPS 1:                                    used in weighting.
AIPS 1: UVBXFN        1                    Box function type when UVBOX
AIPS 1:                                    > 0.  0 -> 1 round pill box.
AIPS 1: XTYPE         5                    Conv. function type in x
AIPS 1:                                      default spheroidal
AIPS 1: YTYPE         5                    Conv. function type in y
AIPS 1:                                      default spheroidal
AIPS 1: XPARM      *all 0                  Conv. function parms for x
AIPS 1: YPARM      *all 0                  Conv. function parms for y
AIPS 1: NITER        10                    Maximum # of Clean components
AIPS 1: BCOMP      *all 0                  Begin at BCOMP component
AIPS 1:                                    Specify for each field.
AIPS 1: ALLOKAY       0                    For restart: > 0 => beams
AIPS 1:                                    okay, > 1 => work file too
AIPS 1: NBOXES        0                    Number of boxes for Clean
AIPS 1:                                    NB: field 1 only.
AIPS 1: CLBOX      *all 0                  Four coordinates for each box
AIPS 1: BOXFILE    *all ' '                Input file of field params
AIPS 1:                                    and Clean boxes; ' ' => use
AIPS 1:                                    FLDSIZE, RASHIFT, DECSHIFT,
AIPS 1:                                    NBOXES, CLBOX only.
AIPS 1: OBOXFILE   *all ' '                Output file for final Clean
AIPS 1:                                    boxes
AIPS 1: GAIN          0.1                  Clean loop gain
AIPS 1: FLUX          0                    Minimum Clean component (Jy)
AIPS 1: MINPATCH     51                    Min. BEAM half-width in AP.
AIPS 1: BMAJ          0                    FWHM(asec) major axis Clean
AIPS 1:                                    restoring beam.
AIPS 1: BMIN          0                    FWHM(asec) minor axis Clean
AIPS 1:                                    restoring beam.
AIPS 1: BPA           0                    Clean beam position angle
AIPS 1: OVERLAP       0                    1 => restore components to
AIPS 1:                                    overlapped fields, >=2=>
AIPS 1:                                    expect overlaps in Cleaning
AIPS 1: ONEBEAM      -1                    > 0 use only 1 dirty beam
AIPS 1:                                    per scale in multi-facet
AIPS 1:                                    Cleans
AIPS 1: OVRSWTCH      0                    Not 0 => switch from OVERLAP
AIPS 1:                                    >= 2 to OVERLAP 1 - see HELP
AIPS 1: PHAT          0                    Prussian hat height.
AIPS 1: FACTOR        0                    Speedup factor see HELP
AIPS 1: CMETHOD    ' '                     Modeling method:
AIPS 1:                                    'DFT','GRID','    '
AIPS 1: IMAGRPRM   *all 0                  Task enrichment parameters
AIPS 1:                                    (1) Antenna diameter (m)
AIPS 1:                                    (2) Source Spectral index
AIPS 1:                                    (3) Frequency scaling factor
AIPS 1:                                    (4) > 0 -> SDI Clean factor
AIPS 1:                                    (5) >0 => scale residuals
AIPS 1:                                    (6) Half-width in x of box
AIPS 1:                                    (7) Half-width in y of box
AIPS 1:                                    (8) Filter components whose
AIPS 1:                                    neighborhood is weaker than
AIPS 1:                                    IMAGRPRM(8) Jy.  0 -> don't
AIPS 1:                                    (9) Radius in pixels for the
AIPS 1:                                    IMAGRPRM(8) test.
AIPS 1:                                    (10) multiplier of image size
AIPS 1:                                    to get beam size: 0 => 2;
AIPS 1:                                    2, 1, 0.5 0.25 supported
AIPS 1:                                    (11-16) Multi-scale controls
AIPS 1:                                    (17) spectral index radius
AIPS 1:                                         0 -> no correction
AIPS 1:                                    (18) Limit grids (see help)
AIPS 1:                                    (19) Dynamic range limit
AIPS 1:                                    (20) Retry factor (see help)
AIPS 1: IM2PARM    *all 0                  Yet more parameters:
AIPS 1:                                    (1) Auto boxes: allowed #
AIPS 1:                                    (2)           : island level
AIPS 1:                                    (3)           : peak required
AIPS 1:                                    (4)           : limit wrt max
AIPS 1:                                    (5)           : extend boxes
AIPS 1:                                    (6)           : edge skip
AIPS 1:                                    (7) reset boxes for next chan
AIPS 1:                                    (11) baseline-dependent avg
AIPS 1:                                         max time in sec
AIPS 1:                                    (12) field size 0 -> infinite
AIPS 1: NGAUSS        0                    Number of scales to use
AIPS 1: WGAUSS     *all 0                  Scales in arc sec >= 0
AIPS 1: FGAUSS     *all 0                  Minimum flux for each resol.
AIPS 1: MAXPIXEL      0                    Maximum pixels searched in
AIPS 1:                                    each major cycle.
AIPS 1: IN3NAME    ' '                     Spectral index image name
AIPS 1: IN3CLASS   ' '                     Spectral index image class
AIPS 1: IN3SEQ        0                    Spectral index image sequence
AIPS 1:                                    number
AIPS 1: IN3DISK       0                    Spectral index image disk
AIPS 1: IN4NAME    ' '                     Spectral curvature name
AIPS 1: IN4CLASS   ' '                     Spectral curvature class
AIPS 1: IN4SEQ        0                    Spectral curvature sequence
AIPS 1:                                    number
AIPS 1: IN4DISK       0                    Spectral curvature disk
AIPS 1: FQTOL        -1                    Frequency tolerance in kHz
AIPS 1:                                    (primary beam & spec index)
AIPS 1: DOTV          1                    Display residuals on TV ?
AIPS 1:                                    Start with field = DOTV
AIPS 1: GRCHAN        0                    Graphics channel of boundary
AIPS 1: BADDISK    *all 0                  Disks to avoid for scratch.

And here is the file header:

AIPS 1: Image=HDF259    (UV)         Filename=HDF259      .SPLIT .   1
AIPS 1: Telescope=EVN                Receiver=VLBA
AIPS 1: Observer=EC033               User #= 5000
AIPS 1: Observ. date=13-JUN-2011     Map date=06-DEC-2011
AIPS 1: # visibilities    326254     Sort order  TB
AIPS 1: Rand axes: UU-L-SIN  VV-L-SIN  WW-L-SIN  TIME1  BASELINE
AIPS 1:            INTTIM  CORR-ID
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: Type    Pixels   Coord value     at Pixel     Coord incr   Rotat
AIPS 1: COMPLEX      3   0.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 1: STOKES       2  -1.0000000E+00       1.00 -1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 1: FREQ        16   1.6265212E+09       0.53  5.0000000E+05    0.00
AIPS 1: IF           8   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 1: RA           1    12 37 13.870       1.00       3600.000    0.00
AIPS 1: DEC          1    62 18 26.500       1.00       3600.000    0.00
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: Coordinate equinox 2000.00
AIPS 1: Rest freq      0.000         Vel type: OPTICAL wrt YOU
AIPS 1: Alt ref. value  0.00000E+00  wrt pixel    0.53
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type HI is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type NX is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type FQ is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type AN is   1
AIPS 1: Keyword = 'OLDRFQ  '  value =  1.62652125D+09

As usual, I am running a pretty up-to-date binary installation of 31DEC11.

Thanks.

Andy




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