FIT /JVM_FACTOR
[CLEAN\]FIT [Plane] | [CHANNEL First Last] [FIELD First Last]
[/THRESHOLD Value] /JVM_FACTOR [NoCircle]
This option instructs the FIT command to estimate the so-called JvM factor
(from Jorsater van Moorsel 1995), which is the ratio of Clean beam area to
Dirty beam area. The value is returned into the BEAM_JVM variable.
The Dirty beam area is an ill-defined quantity (if no Zero spacing is in-
cluded, the Dirty beam area tends toward Zero when a sufficiently large area
is included). It is defined here by integrating only up to the first null of
the Dirty beam.
In case of Dirty beams presenting shoulders around the main beam, this ratio
may be used to adjust the contribution of residuals to the CLEAN image so
that the flux is better preserved. For well-behaved beams, it should be
quite close to 1.
NoCircle is an argument which, if present, indicates that the Clean and
Dirty beam should not be circularized to derive the factor; this should be
reserved for debugging.