0.1.14 feather
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Synopsis Combine two images using their Fourier transforms
Description
The algorithm converts each image to the gridded visibility plane, combines
them, and reconverts them into an combined image. Each image must include
a well-defined beam shape (clean beam) in order for feathering to work well.
The two images must have the same flux density normalization scale.
Arguments
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| imagename | | Name of output feathered image
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| highres | | Name of high resolution (interferometer) image
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| lowres | | Name of low resolution (single dish) image
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Example
This algorithm, called feathering, is a simple method for combining two
images with different spatial resolution. The processing steps are:
0. regrid the low resolution image to a temporary copy matching the
high resolution image,
1. transform each image to the gridded visibility plane,
2. sum the gridded visibilities
3. transform back to the image plane.
The task name comes from the smooth switching from
one data set to the other using weights assigned according to the
sensitivity of each at any given spatial frequency. Gaps, if any,
between the spatial frequency ranges are not filled.
Each image must have a well-defined beam shape (clean beam) for
feathering to work well. The two images must have the same flux
density normalization scale.
This task is somewhat experimental and will improve as more experience
with single-dish and interferometric data is obtained over the next few years.
Keyword arguments:
imagename -- Name of output feathered image
default: none; example: imagename=’orion_combined.im’
highres -- Name of high resolution (interferometer) image
default: none; example: highres=’orion_vla.im’
This image is often a clean image obtained from synthesis
observations.
lowres -- Name of low resolution (single dish) image
default: none; example: lowres=’orion_gbt.im’
This image is often a image from a single-dish observations
or a clean image obtained from lower resolution synthesis
observations.
Comments:
The advantage of feathering is that one does not have to go back to
the visibility data and then image and deconvolve. It starts with
the high-quality image (with the accurate clean beam). This is
particularly useful for combining a high-resolution interferometric
image with a lower-resolution single-dish image, although
D-configuration and A-configuration EVLA data can also be combined.
There are often uncertainties in the relative flux density scales
between the two images, and the current implementation of feathers
does not adjustment.
The clean task also has a method of combining two sets of data with
different resolution. The high resolution visibility data begins
deconvolution, starting with a modelimage of the lower-resolution
image. The lower-resolution image must be clean components (or a
sky model), not the low resolution image with its intrinsic
resolution.
Please send any comments or questions about CASA or AIPS++
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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