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Software Dictionary AIPS/aips++

AIPS++ Group, eds

A postscript version of this note is available.

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The AIPS/AIPS++ dictionary

Athol Kemball

Summary

This chapter provides a list of common AIPS tasks, and their equivalent AIPS++ tool or tool function names. The two packages differ in both their architecture and calibration and imaging models, and there is often not a direct correspondence. However, this index does provide a scientific user of AIPS++ who is familiar with AIPS, with a simple translation table to map their existing data reduction knowledge to the new package.

The index includes common AIPS tasks and verbs; adverbs are not included. Capabilities which exceed those available in AIPS are not listed here by definition; users are referred to the other chapters in this guide for full descriptions of these capabilities. However, the current index entries offer starting points in which to explore related facilities in AIPS++ which exceed those in AIPS.

AIPS++is structured as a toolkit at the lower levels, while AIPS is a comprehensive collection of more monolithic applications. In general, the counterpart of an AIPS task is an AIPS++tool function, although the toolkit structure of AIPS++will generally mean that these functions are more fine-grained, except for the more integrated tools at the higher levels (such as map. The counterparts of AIPS adverbs are the parameters of AIPS++tool functions. The command-line interpreter in AIPS is POPS, while the counterpart in AIPS++is Glish. Scripts in Glish are more powerful equivalents of AIPS runfiles.

AIPS task and verb index

AIPS Task/Verb Description AIPS++ tool/function
APCLN CLEAN deconvolution imager.clean
BLCAL Baseline-based (A,$ \phi$) calibration calibrater.solve
BLING Baseline-based fringe-fitter not yet available
BPASS Bandpass calibration calibrater.solve
CCEDT Edit CC tables componentmodels
COMB Image combination image.calc
    imagepol
CPASS Polynomial bandpass calibration calibrater.solve
CALIB (A,$ \phi$) self-calibration calibrater.solve
DBCON uv-data concatenation not yet available
DTSIM Simulator simulator
DTSUM uv-data summary ms.summary
FILLM VLA filler vlafiller
FITLD VLBA filler not yet available
FITTP UVFITS writer ms.tofits
FRING VLBI fringe-fitter not yet available
GETJY Set flux density scale calibater.fluxscale
IBLED Interactive VLBI editor not yet available
IMAGR Synthesis imaging imager
IMFIT Image-plane component fitter imagefitter
IMLOD FITS image filler image.imagefromfits
IMH File header summary table.summary
IMSTAT Image statistics image.statistics
ISPEC Plot image slice not yet available
JMFIT Image-plane component fitter imagefitter
LISTR List uv- and calibration data tablebrowser
MCAT List image catalog catalog
MK3IN MK3 VLBI filler not yet available
MOVE Move uv-data files tablecopy
MSORT Sort uv-data tablecommand
MX Synthesis imaging imager
PBCOR Primary beam correction imager.setvp
    vpmanager
PCAL Polarization calibration calibrater.solve
PRTAB List table data tablebrowser
PRTAN List AN table data tablebrowser
PRTUV List uv-data tablebrowser
RENAME Rename file name tablerename
SETJY Set source properties imager.setjy
SNPLT Plot calibration solutions calibrater.plotcal
SUBIM Extract sub-image image.subimage
SPFLG Interactive line data editing not yet available

AIPS Task/Verb Description AIPS++ tool/function
SPLIT Apply calibration calibrater.correct
    map.applycal
TAPLT General table plotting pgplotter
    table
TBIN Read table from ASCII format tablefromascii
TBOUT Write table to ASCII format table.toascii
TRANS Transpose an image not required in AIPS++
TVBOX Set regions in an image regionmanager
TVFID Adjust TV display viewer
TVFLG Interactive TB data editing msplot
TVLOD Load image to TV display viewer
UCAT List uv-data catalog catalog
UVCON Simulator simulator
UVFIT uv-plane component fitter not yet available
UVFLG Command-based flagging flagger
UVLOD UV-FITS filler ms.fitstoms
UVMOD Simulator simulator
UVPRT List uv-data tablebrowser
UVSRT Sort uv-data tablecommand
UVSUB Source model computation imager.ft
VBGLU Concatenate VLBI data not yet available
VBPLT Baseline-based uv-data plotting msplot
VMEM MEM deconvolution imager.mem
VPLOT Baseline-based uv-data plotting msplot
ZAP Delete a file tabledelete

References

AIPS project, http://www.nrao.edu.

Copyright


Copyright ©1995-2000 AIPS++ Consortium

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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the AIPS++ Consortium.

The AIPS++ consortium may be reached by email at aips2-request@nrao.edu. The postal address is: AIPS++ Consortium, c/o NRAO, 520 Edgemont Rd., Charlottesville, Va. 22903-2475 USA.



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