Changes in OBSe
16.01.01 / jn


The SOURCE command
 now resets the offsets set before by the set_default offsets  command to zero. In order to keep  the  last given offsets one can specify the adverb  /KEEPOFFS .

example:
     SOURCE  3C273                    ! reads source from file and clears offsets
     SOURCE  3C273  /KEEP       ! reads source without changing offsets

The new complete verb with adverbs is:

SOURCE  <name>  /DEFAULT  /CATALOG_C <cat-name> /VELOCITY  <vel> <frame>  /KEEPOFFS

<name>:                 source-name in catalog
<cat-name>:           catalog name
<vel>:                     velocity in km/sec or zred
<frame>:                 Heliocentric, Barycentric, Local Standard of Rest, Z redshift
 

The adverb MAPSIZE
used by some verbs like CMAP, CRASTER, PMAP etc. is now able to specify the direction of the scanning coordinate, i.e. whether one wants to scan from positive offsets to negative or  viceversa. That is specified with the sign of the resolution parameter ( <res_lon> and <res_lat> ) in the two directions.

the new complete adverb is:

SET_DEFAULT MAPSIZE <long> < +/-res_lon> <lat> < +/-res_lat> <obs_sys>

<long>:           length in arcsecs for the longitude axis
<res_long>:   resolution in longitude in arcsecs, the sign defines the direction of scanning (for scanned raster only the sign is used).
<lat> and <res_lat> define the same values for  the latitude direction.
<obs_sys>:    defines the scanning or raster coordinate   (LAM,BET,AZM,ELV)

Example for a RASTER:

/mapsize  1000 100 810 90 lam
 
  starts an observation of a region  from -500 to +500 arcsecs in 11 steps along the source longitude with a change in the relative source latitude. The latitude begins with an offset of -405 and ends in  9 steps at +405 arcsecs.

/mapsize  1000 100 810 -90 lam
 
  starts an observation of a region  from -500 to +500 arcsecs in 11 steps along the source longitude with a change in the relative source latitude. The latitude begins with an offset of +405 and ends in  9 steps at -405 arcsecs.

Never set  the resolution to zero. The value of  <long> or <lat> is treated as a distance, which must be positive.

   More information you can find in the Online Manual.