18.7.6 /RESTART

[CLEAN\]CLEAN [FirstPlane [LastPlane]] /RESTART [File] [/PLOT Clean|Residu] [/FLUX Fmin Fmax] [/QUERY] [/NITER NiterList] [/ARES AresList]

Instruct CLEAN to start from the specified Clean Component Table stored in the specified File, or those currently in memory if no File is given.

This can be used to re-start a Clean that was not deep enough. It can be used to split the Clean operation in several steps, possibly changing the support at each step, or even the Clean METHOD.

For spectral data, the starting model should have the same number of channels, or have only 1. The later capability can be used to start from the Clean Components derived from a Continuum-only data set, so that deconvolution proceeds to find out the line-only structure. This is an alternative to separate deconvolution of Continuum and continuum-subtracted data followed by addition of the Clean images.