[daip] SOURCES name problems

[Eric Greisen]

李俊铎 wrote:
> Dear sir or madam,
> 
> In data analysis with AIPS, we get into difficulty.
> 
> We got the data from WSRT in UVFIT format. The target is the MOON. After 
> we loaded the files with FITLD, we found (using the TASK ‘LISTR’) the 
> MOON in each SCAN have different names such as MOON-001, MOON-002, … 
> This make the data analysis difficult, since we can not specify the MOON 
> with a single word using the adverb SOURCES. Could give us some advice 
> on how to deal with this case? Many Thanks.
> 
> The file attached is the output by LISTR(OPTYPE 'SCAN').
> 
> Best wishes,
> Junduo LI

The task you need is DSORC - it will let you do 10 of these at a time.
The program has renamed the scans due to the changing positions.  I note 
that the positions in the source table cannot be real RA and DEC so DO 
NOT run UVFIX.  But DSORC several times should let you renumber the sources.

Eric Greisen