Documentation on restor


Task: restor
Purpose: Restore clean components to make the CLEAN map
Categories: deconvolution

        RESTOR is a MIRIAD task which performs a number of functions
        typically performed after the deconvolution step. These include
        generating a "CLEAN" map, calculating residuals and convolving
        a model by a gaussian beam.

        RESTOR can also handle multi-frequency synthesis data. In this
        case the input dirty map should consist of just one plane. The input
        beam may contain several planes, and the input model may have no
        more planes (but possibly fewer) than the beam. To get the residuals,
        each plane in the model is convolved with the corresponding plane in
        the beam, and subtracted from the dirty map.

Key: model
        The model of the deconvolved cube. Usually this will be produced
        by CLEAN or MAXEN. The units of this image should be Jy/pixel. No
        default.

Key: beam
        The input dirty beam. No default.

Key: map
        The input dirty cube, which should have units of Jy/beam. This
        can be omitted when mode=convolve. Otherwise no default.

Key: mode
        This can be one of the values:
          "clean"     This is the normal use, and the default, where the
                      output is the map, less the model convolved by the
                      dirty beam, plus the model convolved by the gaussian
          "residual"  The output is the map, less the model convolved by the
                      dirty beam.
          "convolve"  The output is the model convolved by the gaussian. The
                      map parameter is ignored, and the beam is needed only if
                      the user does not give the gaussian fwhm and pa.
          "dirty"     The output is the map convolved with the beam.

Key: fwhm
        The size, in arcsec, of the gaussian beam to use in the
        restoration. This will normally be two numbers, giving the
        full-width at half-maximum of the major and minor axes of the
        gaussian. If only one number is given, the gaussian will have
        equal major and minor axes. If no values are given, they are
        either retrieved from the beam header, or computed by fitting a
        gaussian to the given dirty beam. Note that the fitting routine
        will probably give different values to the AIPS MX and APCLN tasks.
        Generally the value computed by RESTOR is to be preferred to the
        APCLN and MX values.

Key: pa
        The position angle, in degrees, of the gaussian restoring beam,
        measured east from north. The default is determined from the dirty
        beam fit (The value for PA is ignored, if no value is given for
        FWHM).

Key: out
        The output restored image. No default.

Generated by rsault@atnf.csiro.au on 11 Jul 1996