Documentation on moment
Task: moment
Purpose: Calculate moments of a Miriad image.
Categories: image analysis
MOMENT calculates the nth moment of a Miriad image. Currently only
the moment of axis 1 or axis 3 is calculated for 3 dimensional images.
To obtain the moments for other axes use the task REORDER to reorder
the axes.
Key: in
The input image. No default.
Key: region
The region of the input image to be used. See documentation for region
on how to specify this. Only the bounding box is supported.
Key: out
The output image. No default.
Key: mom
-1 Average intensity. (units are same as individual channels)
0 Integrated intensity. (e.g. units Jy x km/s)
1 1st moment = sum(I*v)/sum(I)
2 dispersion = sqrt(sum(I*(v-M1)**2)/sum(I))
The v(i) are the axis values (e.g. velocities). M1 is the first
moment. The moment is calculated independently for each pixel
within the specified clip range. Default = 0.
Key: axis
The axis for which the moment is calculated. Default = 3.
Key: clip
Two values. Exclude pixels with values in the range clip(1) to clip(2).
If only one value is given, then exclude -abs(clip) to abs(clip).
Generated by rsault@atnf.csiro.au on 11 Jul 1996