sdflagold – ASAP SD task [DEPRECATED]: spectral/row flagging – single dish task

Description

### DEPRECATION WARNING ################################################# This task will be removed in CASA 5.1. The functionality of this task with MeasurementSet format is replicated with flagdata. #########################################################################

Task sdflagold performs either interactive or non-interactive channel/row based flagging on spectra.

Currently, there are three ways of non-interactive flagging available: (1) channel or row based flagging by selecting spectra by field,

lists of scan numbers, IF numbers, and polarization idices in mode=’manual’,

2. channel based flagging by specifying a range of spectral values in mode=’clip’, and

3. row based flagging by specifying a list of row numbers in mode=’rowid’. Note this is an EXPERT mode since it might not be straight forward for general users to select data by row IDs in scantable.

In mode=’manual’, the channel based flagging are invoked when spw parameter contains channel range selection. Otherwise, the whole channels are flagged for the selected spectra. Note channel range selection by spw parameter has effect only in mode=’manual’.

Interactive flagging is available when mode=’interactive’. The available ways of interactive flagging include: (1) row based flagging by selecting ‘panel’ and (2) channel based flagging by selecting ‘region’s of channels on Flag plotter. See the cookbook for details of how to select channel regions and spectra on the plotter.

NOTE the task sdflagold only modifies flag information, FLAGROW and FLAGTRA, in the input scantable. This task keeps all records in input dataset. Data selection parameters are used for selecting data to modify flag information.

If plotlevel>=1, the task asks you if you really apply the flags before it is actually written to the data with a plot indicating flagged regions.

WARNING for overwrite option: Be sure ‘outform’ is the same as data format of input file when you overwrite it. The default value of the option ‘overwrite’ is True in this task, thereby the current dataset (infile) is overwritten unless a different file name is set to outfile. There is a known issue in overwriting infile. If ‘outform’ differs to the data format of infile, the data is overwritten with the new data format (specified by ‘outform’) and the data in the original format will be lost.

Parameters

Title

Parameter	Default	Description
infile	''
antenna	int(0)
mode	'manual'	mode of data selection and flag operation ['manual', 'clip', 'interactive', 'rowid'(expert)]
unflag	False
field	''
spw	''
timerange	''
scan	''
pol	''
beam	''
restfreq	''
frame	''	frequency reference frame ['LSRK', 'TOPO', 'LSRD', 'BARY', 'GALACTO', 'LGROUP', or 'CMB'] (''=current) Effective only when spw selection is in velocity or frequency unit.
doppler	''	doppler convention ['RADIO', 'OPTICAL', 'Z', 'BETA', or 'GAMMA'] (''=current). Effective only when spw selection is in velocity unit.
clipminmax	numpy.array( [  ] )
clipoutside	True
showflagged	False
row	''
rasterrow	''
outfile	''
outform	'ASAP'	output file format ['ASAP', 'MS2', 'ASCII', or 'SDFITS'] (See a WARNING in help)
overwrite	True	overwrite the output file if already exists [True, False] (See a WARNING in help)
plotlevel	int(0)

Parameter Explanations

infile

''

name of input SD dataset

antenna

int(0)

select an antenna name or ID, e.g, 'PM03' (only effective for MS input)

mode

'manual'

mode of data selection and flag operation

unflag

False

unflag selected data (False: flag, True: unflag)

field

''

select data by field IDs and names, e.g. '3C2*' ('' = all)

spw

''

select data by IF IDs (spectral windows), e.g., '3,5,7' ('' = all)

timerange

''

select data by time range, e.g, '09:14:0~09:54:0' ('' = all) (see examples in help)

scan

''

select data by scan numbers, e.g, '21~23' ('' = all)

pol

''

select data by polarization IDs, e.g, '0,1' ('' = all)

beam

''

select data by beam IDs, e.g, '0,1' ('' = all)

restfreq

''

the rest frequency, '1.41GHz' (default unit: Hz). Effective only when spw selection is in velocity unit. (see examples in help)

frame

''

frequency reference frame (''=current) Effective only when spw selection is in velocity or frequency unit.

doppler

''

doppler convention (''=current). Effective only when spw selection is in velocity unit.

clipminmax

numpy.array( [  ] )

range of data that will NOT be flagged

clipoutside

True

clip outside the range, or within it

showflagged

False

show flagged data (in gray) on plots

row

''

select data by row IDs to apply row-based flagging/unflagging (e.g., '0,3,5')

rasterrow

''

select data by raster rows (e.g., '0,3,5')

outfile

''

name of output file (See a WARNING in help)

outform

'ASAP'

output file format (See a WARNING in help)

overwrite

True

overwrite the output file if already exists (See a WARNING in help)

plotlevel

int(0)

control for plotting of results (see examples in help)