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Basic Information on smacatool
Task: smacatool
Purpose: Handle calibrator catalog - CalPolFlux.cat.
Categories: calibration, flux
SMACATOOL reads calibrator catalog - CalPolFlux.cat (SMA) and
cals.fluxes or the modified FluxSource.cat (CARMA+BIMA)
in Miriad and plot results. Merge SMA and CARMA data
into one plot.
Key: in
Name of the calibration data file (Default is the file
CalPolFlux.cat in the directory MIRCAT).
Key: in2
Name of the second calibration data file in the format
of either cals.fluxes or FluxSource.cat
(Default is the file FluxSource.cat in the directory MIRCAT).
Key: source
Name of the calibration source to list (default is all sources).
The source name is minimum match format.
Key: freq
Frequency that the source was observed at in GHz (default is
0.0, which implies all frequencies are valid matches).
Key: delfreq
A full width in GHz (default is 5.0) in which to accept
deviations from the value of ``freq'' as a match. If ``freq''
is not given or is set to the default value, this input
is ignored.
Key: date
The cutoff date before or after which no observations are
listed (default is date=1.0, which implies all dates are valid
matches). If ``date=0'', then only the most recent data is
listed. If ``date>0,'' then all data more recent than ``date''
are listed; ``date<0,'' then all data prior to ``abs(date)''
are presented. The format for ``date'' is the same as the DATE
field in the flux calibration file: either ``yymmmdd.d'' or
``yymmmdd:hh:mm:ss.s'' with no internal spaces (the first 7
characters are required).
Key: options
This gives extra processing options. Options given below can be
used one at a time. No multiple options are allowed. Default
is to plot radio lightcurve (flux vs. time) and list the values
of flux density giving a source, frequency range and epochs of time
from the catalogs given by in and in2.
smaft Means taking CatPolFlux.cat data only to plot flux-time curve
smalpt Means taking CatPolFlux.cat data only to plot linearPol-time curve
smapat Means taking CatPolFlux.cat data only to plot PA-time curve
smapaf Means taking CatPolFlux.cat data only to plot PA-freq curve
Key: device
PGPLOT device to plot flux versus time. Default is no plot.