mFitExec(1)
NAME
mFitExec - Re-project and mosaic your images, with background rectification
SYNOPSIS
mFitExec [-d] [-s statusfile] diffs.tbl fits.tbl diffdir
DESCRIPTION
Runs mFitplane on all the difference images identified by mOverlaps and generated by mDiff or mDiffExec. mFitExec creates a table of image-to- image difference parameters.
OPTIONS
-d Turns on debugging
-s statusfile
Writes output message to statusfile instead of to stdout
ARGUMENTS
diffs.tbl
Overlap table generated by mOverlaps, the last column of which
contains the filenames of the difference images generated by
mDiffExec.
fits.tbl
Output table of difference paramaters.
diffdir
Directory containing difference images.
RESULT
Generates a table, fits.tbl, containing all the information generated by running mFitplane on each difference image. nimages is the number of images for which this calculation was successfully performed, nfaied is the number that generated an error condition for mFitplane, nwarning is the number that generated a warning, and nmissing is the number of files that could not be found in the specified diffdir.
MESSAGES
OK [struct stat="OK", count=n, failed=nfailed, warning=nwarning,
missing=nmissing]
ERROR Cannot open status file: statusfile
ERROR Can't open output file.
ERROR Invalid diffs metadata file: filename
ERROR Need columns: cntr1 cntr2 plus minus diff
ERROR svc library error
EXAMPLES
First, diffs.tbl is generated for a collection of reprojected images
using mOverlap. Next, mDiffExec is run on those images to create
output images in the subdirectory diffdir. At this point, we are ready
to run mFitExec:
$ mFitExec diffs.tbl fits.tbl diff
[struct stat="OK", count=42, failed=0, warning=0, missing=0]
Output file: fits.tbl.
BUGS
The drizzle algorithm has been implemented but has not been tested in this release. If a header template contains carriage returns (i.e., created/modified on a Windows machine), the cfitsio library will be unable to read it properly, resulting in the error: [struct stat="ERROR", status=207, msg="illegal character in keyword"] It is best for the background correction algorithms if the area described in the header template completely encloses all of the input images in their entirety. If parts of input images are "chopped off" by the header template, the background correction will be affected. We recommend you use an expanded header for the reprojection and background modeling steps, returning to the originally desired header size for the final coaddition. The default background matching assumes that there are no non-linear background variations in the individual images (and therefore in the overlap differences). If there is any uncertainty in this regard, it is safer to turn on the "level only" background matching (the "-l" flag in mBgModel.
COPYRIGHT
2001-2015 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California If your research uses Montage, please include the following acknowledgement: "This research made use of Montage. It is funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number ACI-1440620, and was previously funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Technology Office, Computation Technologies Project, under Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 between NASA and the California Institute of Technology." The Montage distribution includes an adaptation of the MOPEX algorithm developed at the Spitzer Science Center.
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