[daip] Fluxes from IMSTAT are incorrect

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Apr 3 18:16:37 EDT 2013


Danielle Lucero wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have loaded a CASA image cube into AIPS.  I have noticed that when 
> using IMSTAT to measure the rms noise in a region of the cube it gives 
> me the incorrect rms as measured from CASA.  In fact it seems to give me 
> the same rms noise for every channel in every region I select.  It also 
> gives me the exact same integrated flux even when I am summing over real 
> emission. Any idea what is going wrong here?  Using  CURVAL seems to 
> give the correct pixel values.  

Not without some real information.

The output of IMHEADER and of the INPUTS to IMSTAT would be useful.
Task IMEAN does a better job of this operation - IMSTAT is just a quicky 
version of things.

Eric Greisen





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