0.1.10 concat
Requires:
Synopsis Concatenate several visibility data sets.
Arguments
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| vis | | Name of input visibility files to be concatenated
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| | | allowed: | stringArray |
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| concatvis | | Name of output visibility file
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| | | allowed: | string |
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| freqtol | | Frequency shift tolerance for considering data as the
same spwid
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| | | allowed: | any |
| | | Default: | variant |
| dirtol | | Direction shift tolerance for considering data as the same
field
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| | | allowed: | any |
| | | Default: | variant |
| timesort | | If true, sort by TIME in ascending order
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| | | allowed: | bool |
| | | Default: | False |
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Example
The list of data sets given in the vis argument are concatenated into an output
data set in concatvis. If concatvis already exists (e.g., it is the same as the
first input data set), then the other input data sets will be appended to the
concatvis data set. There is no limit to the number of input data sets.
If none of the input data sets have any scratch columns (model and corrected columns),
none are created in the concatvis. Otherwise these columns are created on output
and initialized to their default value (1 in model column, data in corrected column)
for those data with no input columns.
Spectral windows for each data set with the same chanelization, and within a specified
frequency tolerance of another data set will be combined into one spectral window.
A field position in one data set that is within a specified direction tolerance of
another field position in any other data set will be combined into one field. The
field names need not be the same---only their position is used.
Keyword arguments:
vis -- Name of input visibility files to be combined
default: none; example: vis = ’mydata.ms’,
vis=[’src2.ms’,’ngc5921.ms’,’ngc315.ms’]
concatvis -- Name of visibility file that will contain the concatenated data
note: if this file exits on disk then the input files are
added to this file. Otherwise the new file contains
the concatenated data. Be careful here when concatenating to
an existing file.
default: none; example: concatvis=’src2.ms’
example: concatvis=’outvis.ms’
other examples:
concat(vis=[’src2.ms’,’ngc5921.ms’], concatvis=’src2.ms’)
will concatenate ’ngc5921.ms’ into ’src2.ms’, and the original
src2.ms is lost
concat(vis=[’src2.ms’,’ngc5921.ms’], concatvis=’out.ms’)
will concatenate ’ngc5921.ms’ and ’src2.ms’ into a file named
’out.ms’; the original ’ngc5921.ms’ and ’src2.ms’ are untouched.
concat(vis=[’v1.ms’,’v2.ms’], concatvis = ’vall.ms’)
then
concat(vis=[’v3.ms’,’v4.ms’], concatvis = ’vall.ms’)
vall.ms will contains v1.ms+v2.ms+v3.ms+v4.ms
Note: run flagmanager to save flags in the concatvis
freqtol -- Frequency shift tolerance for considering data to be in the same
spwid. The number of channels must also be the same.
default: ’’ do not combine unless frequencies are equal
example: freqtol=’10MHz’ will not combine spwid unless they are
within 10 MHz.
Note: This option is useful to conbine spectral windows with very slight
frequency differences caused by Doppler tracking, for example.
dirtol -- Direction shift tolerance for considering data as the same field
default: ’’ means always combine.
example: dirtol=’1.arcsec’ will not combine data for a field unless
their phase center differ by less than 1 arcsec. If the field names
are different in the input data sets, the name in the output data
set will be the first relevant data set in the list.
timesort -- If true, the output visibility table will be sorted in time.
default: false. Data in order as read in.
example: timesort=true
Note: There is no constraint on data that is simultaneously observed for
more than one field; for example multi-source correlation of VLBA data.
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to aips2-requests@nrao.edu
Copyright © 2008 Associated Universities Inc.,
Washington, D.C.
This code is available under the terms of the GNU General Public Lincense
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