[daip] AIPS Help

[Eric Greisen]

Michael Kosowsky wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> I am an undergraduate working with David Roberts at Brandeis University.
> 
> We are currently attempting to do rotation measure synthesis in AIPS. We 
> used CASA to create 16 Q and 16 U maps to load into AIPS and merge into 
> Q and U cubes.
> 
> All of the files are FITS files and have the same name, up to the last 
> part of the file name which is a different number from 0 to 15.
> 
> Is there a command to load these all into AIPS at the same time? I've 
> been using FITLD to load them in, but I haven't been able to figure out 
> how to load all 16 Q maps or 16 U maps at the same time, and instead 
> have had to run FITLD 16 times each for Q and U.

If the FITS files have the same name followed by a sequence number then
the NCOUNT adverb in FITLD should allow you to read them all in during 
one execution of FITLD.  See the help file remarks about DATAIN and NCOUNT.

Eric Greisen