MOSAIC
[CLEAN\]MOSAIC [?| [CenterX CenterY UNIT] [ANGLE Angle]]
List and Control the Mosaic processing mode. Switching between Single-Field
and Mosaic processing is automatic,
MOSAIC ? lists the current Mosaic status.
MOSAIC ON and MOSAIC OFF are obsolete and provided only for backward compat-
ibility with older syntax.
MOSAIC with no argument, or with coordinates and/or orientation, activates
the SAULT method.
Two different Mosaicing processing method exist. The default one, the GUETH
mode, is based on the Gueth, Guilloteau & Viallefond method. It uses and
produces Primary and Dirty beams of the same sizes as the Sky mosaic.
The alternative one, the SAULT mode, can only be activated by using the MO-
SAIC command (with none of the ?, ON or OFF arguments). It uses the method
published by Sault, Staveley-Smith and Brouw AA Supp Ser 120, 375-384
(1995). In the Sault et al method, each field is imaged with a smaller map
size than the Sky mosaic, before being combined together. This mode is more
suited for large mosaics, being faster and more accurate (less edge distor-
tion effects) than the Gueth et al method.
The SHOW MOSAIC command will display the mode characteristics. As for com-
mand UV_MAP, variable MAP_CENTER can be used to specify the Mosaic center,
unless the optional arguments are specified. Otherwise, the Mosaic center is
derived from the pointing positions.
Once the MOSAIC command has been used to select the SAULT mode, only a new
READ UV command can reset the default mosaic mode so far. The syntax may
evolve to provide more flexibility.
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