man mArchiveList (1): 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.