SSZAP is a procedure and hence all parameters must always be specified on the command line. The syntax to invoke it is,
> SSZAP <dataset> <ssds> <radius> <qmode>SSZAP applies the quality operation specified by
<qmode>
to all
pixels in <dataset>
within a radius <radius>
of the points
in space defined by the positions of the sources in <ssds>
. The
value of <radius>
should be specified in the spatial axis units
of <dataset>
. <qmode>
should be any one of the quality
operations supported by the CQUALITY application.
The first point to note is that <dataset>
need not be the dataset
which produced <ssds>
-- in fact it can be any n-dimensional
binned dataset as long as the pointing direction is the same as that
which produced <ssds>
. Consider the following example,
> XSORT ... OUT=cube ; Create data cube from instrument ; interface > PROJECT cube image 3 ; Collapse cube to image > PSS image 0.5 sources \ ; Source search the image using ; a noddy background value > SSZAP cube 0.02 sources IGNORE ; Ignore data in cube within 0.02 ; degrees of a source > INTERP cube intcube ... ; Patch over data where sources were > PROJECT intcube better_bgnd 3 ; Create new bgnd model > SSZAP cube 0.02 sources RESTORE ; Reset quality in cube > PSS image better_bgnd ... ; Improved source search