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AIPS++ Group, eds
A postscript version of this note is available.
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/Verb | Description | AIPS++ tool/function |
| APCLN | CLEAN deconvolution | imager.clean |
| BLCAL | Baseline-based (A, ) 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,) 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 |
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Getting Results with AIPS++
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