Provided by: montage_4.0+dfsg-3_amd64 
NAME
mArchiveList - Retrieve a list of archive images from the IRSA server
SYNOPSIS
mArchiveList survey band object|location width height outfile
DESCRIPTION
Given a location on the sky, archive name, and size in degrees, contact the IRSA server to retrieve a
list of archive images. The list contains enough information to support mArchiveGet downloads.
ARGUMENTS
survey Can be one of:
2MASS
DSS
SDSS
DPOSS
band Case insensitive - can be one of:
(2MASS) j, h, k
(SDSS) u, g, r, i, z
(DPOSS) f, j, n
(DSS) DSS1, DSS1R, DSS1B, DSS2, DSS2B, DSS2R, DSS2IR
object|location
Object name or coordinate string to be resolved by NED (if string includes spaces, must be
surrounded by double quotes)
width Width of area of interest, in degrees
height Height of area of interest, in degrees
outfile
Path to output table
RESULT
[struct stat="OK", count=num-images]
outfile is an ASCII table of image metadata for the region and survey of interest. The last column in
the table is a URL that mArchiveGet can use to retrieve the image.
MESSAGES
OK [struct stat="OK", count=num-files]
ERROR Can't open output file outfile
ERROR Error message from IRSA's ImgList service
ERROR Couldn't find host hostname
ERROR Couldn't create socket()
ERROR hostname: connect failed
EXAMPLES
To retrieve metadata and file handles for 2MASS J-band images, covering a half-degree by half-degree area
around m31:
mArchiveList 2mass j m31 0.5 0.5 2mass_m31_j.tbl
[struct stat="OK", count=18]
Output file: 2mass_m31_j.tbl.
To retrieve GPFS file handles for SDSS u-band images:
mArchiveList -s gpfs sdss u m101 0.2 0.2 sdss_m101_u.tbl
[struct stat="OK", count=16]
Output file: sdss_m101_u.tbl.
BUGS
The drizzle algorithm has been implemented but has not been tested in this release.
If a header template contains carriage returns (i.e., created/modified on a Windows machine), the cfitsio
library will be unable to read it properly, resulting in the error: [struct stat="ERROR", status=207,
msg="illegal character in keyword"]
It is best for the background correction algorithms if the area described in the header template
completely encloses all of the input images in their entirety. If parts of input images are "chopped off"
by the header template, the background correction will be affected. We recommend you use an expanded
header for the reprojection and background modeling steps, returning to the originally desired header
size for the final coaddition. The default background matching assumes that there are no non-linear
background variations in the individual images (and therefore in the overlap differences). If there is
any uncertainty in this regard, it is safer to turn on the "level only" background matching (the "-l"
flag in mBgModel.
COPYRIGHT
2001-2015 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
If your research uses Montage, please include the following acknowledgement: "This research made use of
Montage. It is funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number ACI-1440620, and was
previously funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Technology Office,
Computation Technologies Project, under Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 between NASA and the
California Institute of Technology."
The Montage distribution includes an adaptation of the MOPEX algorithm developed at the Spitzer Science
Center.