Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:11:53 -0700
From: melvyn wright 
To: Jun-Hui Zhao 
Cc: yuan wang , smamiriad@cfa.harvard.edu, Lei Zhu 
Subject: Re: Failed to install the Binary beta version of Miriad on Fedora machine

Dear Yuan Wang,

The warning messages are OK.  You are imaging all channels by default, and the
image may be too large for your machine. I would try imaging a subset,
or average
of channels using line=nchan,1, xxx  in invert and see if  that writes an image.

Melvyn




On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jun-Hui Zhao  wrote:
> Dear Mr./Ms. Wang,
> � � Our FC machine collapsed a while ago. We have a replacement
> but with ubuntu OS. As I recalled, Dr Zhu (Lei) successfully installed on
> his laptop with Fedora not too long ago. One might need a minor fix for
> installation of high versions of Fedora using the SMA FC9 binary
> distribution. You may check with Lei for any trick.
> � � �Jun-Hui Zhao
>
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, yuan wang wrote:
>
>> Dear Mr./Ms. and Dr. Zhao,
>>
>> I am a SMA user from China.
>> The 2GHzx2sb Miriad works fine on my Fedora 16 (64 bit) machine.
>> I tried to install the latest 4GHzx2sb version (1.4.3 (Binary FC9/higher)) on my machine,
but failed.
>> After the installation and source miriad_start.csh, I can use some Miriad command,
>> such as "uvspec, uvlist". But the most important one "invert" does not work.
>> The Miriad version is:
>>
>> MIRIAD version <<<<<<< VERSION: beta 1.4.2. 2012-01-27 for handling SMA 4GHz and 2GHz mode
data. >>>>>>> �[CVS] loaded from MIR=/opt/miriad_fc/miriad_cvs
>> � Optimized for telescope=sma
>>
>>
>> The script line I used for the continuum data as bellow:
>>
>> invert vis=$VIS map=$MIRIAD.mp beam=$MIRIAD.bm options=systemp imsize=$imsize
cell=$cellsize robust=-2
>> cgdisp in=$MIRIAD.mp,$MIRIAD.mp device=$dev type=pix,cont labtyp=arcse,arcs
options=full,wedge region=quarter
>>
>>
>> If VIS contains both USB and LSB, then it shows:
>>

>>
>> [ywang@SMA w3irs4]$ ./w3irs4_cont.sh invert
>> Invert: version 1.0 19-apr-09
>> Reading the visibility data ...
>> Making single plane images
>> Visibilities accepted: 20748
>> ### Warning [invert]: �Rest frequencies varied by > 0.1% while reading data
>> ### Warning [invert]: �Channel velocities varied by > 10% while reading data
>> Sidelobe suppression area is 102x102 arcsec
>> �... this corresponds to uniform weighting
>> Calculating the weights ...
>> Applying the weights ...
>> Theoretical rms noise: 1.380E-03
>> ....
>>
>> cgdisp: CVS Version 1.9, 2009/10/27 02:45:23 UTC
>>
>> ### Warning [cgdisp]: �Error opening w3irs4_cont.mp, in XYOPEN
>> ### Fatal Error [cgdisp]: �No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> If VIS has only one sideband data, the task "invert" still does not work, it shows:
>>
>> [ywang@SMA w3irs4]$ ./w3irs4_cont.sh invert
>> Invert: version 1.0 19-apr-09
>> Reading the visibility data ...
>> Making single plane images
>> Visibilities accepted: 2457
>> Sidelobe suppression area is 102x102 arcsec
>> �... this corresponds to uniform weighting
>> Calculating the weights ...
>> Applying the weights ...
>> Theoretical rms noise: 3.508E-03
>> ....
>>
>> cgdisp: CVS Version 1.9, 2009/10/27 02:45:23 UTC
>>
>> ### Warning [cgdisp]: �Error opening w3irs4_cont.mp, in XYOPEN
>> ### Fatal Error [cgdisp]: �No such file or directory
>>
>>
>>
>> So would you help me with this problem?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Yuan Wang
>>
>> Purple Mountain Observatory
>> 2 West Beijing Road,
>> 210008 Nanjing, P.R.China
>>
>>
>>