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NAME
mTANHdr - Determine if there would be an equivalent distorted TAN projection
SYNOPSIS
mTANHdr [-d] [-o order][-i maxiter][-t tolerance][-s statusfile] orig.hdr new.hdr
DESCRIPTION
Analyzes a template file and determines if there would be an adequate equivalent distorted TAN
projection, within a specified tolerance, and outputs the alternate header. This header can be used in
conjunction with mProjectPP to produce a TAN plane image. This process is considerably faster than
projecting with the general purpose tool mProject.
The output header is a FITS header template containing a TAN projection with polynomial focal plane
distortions. (Link to an example output header)
mTANHdr is most suitable for projections which can be approximated by tangent-plane projections (TAN,
SIN, ZEA, STG, ARC), and is also therefore not suited for images covering large portions of the sky.
OPTIONS
-d Print additional debugging information to stdout.
-o order
Order of output header polynomial focal plane distortions (default = 4)
-i maxiter
Maximum number of iteration attempts to produce header (default = 50)
-t tolerance
Distortion tolerance value for acceptable output (default = 0.01)
-s statusfile
Output and errors are written to statusfile instead of stdout.
ARGUMENTS
orig.hdr
Input FITS header
new.hdr
Path to output header to be created
RESULT
[struct stat="OK", fwdxerr=fwdxerr, fwdyerr=fwdyerr, fwditer=iter, revxerr=revxerr, revyerr=revyerr,
reviter=reviter]
where fwdxerr and fwdyerr are the maximum errors along each axis found when projecting from the original
image to the distorted header; revxerr and revyerr are the maximum errors along each axis found when
projecting from the distorted header back to the original header; and fwditer and reviter are the number
of iterations required in each direction to converge on a solution.
MESSAGES
OK [struct stat="OK", fwdxerr=fwdxerr, fwdyerr=fwdyerr, fwditer=iter, revxerr=revxerr,
revyerr=revyerr, reviter=reviter]
ERROR -i (iterations) argument
ERROR -o (order) argument
ERROR -t (tolerance) argument
ERROR Cannot open status file: statusfile
ERROR Cannot open output template file new.hdr
ERROR All points offscale in forward transform
ERROR All points offscale in reverse transform
ERROR Bad template: orig.hdr
ERROR Output wcsinit() failed.
ERROR Singular Matrix-1
ERROR Singular Matrix-2
ERROR Allocation failure in ivector()
EXAMPLES
$ mTANHdr input/SIN_1.hdr alternate.hdr
[struct stat="OK", fwdxerr=4.31068e-05, fwdyerr=4.42599e-05, fwditer=4, revxerr=1.22123e-05,
revyerr=1.19694e-05, reviter=4]
The output header is a FITS header template containing a TAN projection with polynomial focal plane
distortions: alternate.hdr
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.