PLTBOL - Interactive bolometer display

Description:

pltbol (or any p$*$ link to scuplot) is a wrapper around the KAPPA utility linplotand facilitates data inspection. It allows plots of a whole series of bolometers one by one, optionally overlaying them with the same bolometer from a second file. Obvious overlays are despiked on non-despiked data or data from different exposures to check the noise.

The menu items are:

[M. H]	Redisplay menu
[Q]	Quit
[N]	Next bolometer
[B#]	Switch to bol #
[X min max], [X cen]	X-axis from min:max or cen+/-10
	Just `x' activates the cursor.
[R]	Reset X-axis
[Y min max], [Y lim]	Y-axis from min:max or -lim:+lim
[U]	Reset Y-axis
Option $>$

Note that a X center defined with the cursor or [X cen] defaults to a 20 points window around cen, the position of the spike. Using the CURSOR, the Left Mouse button always defines the point, the Right Mouse button exits the cursor task while accepting the last point clicked.

Usage:

pltbol [-f sdf_file] [-d sdf_file2] [-s min max] [bol [bol [bol] ...]]

Parameters:

-h[elp]

Print the help information.

-f file

name of NDF file (.sdf may be included in the name).

-d file2

name of a second file: e.g. the despiked version of the NDF file. The same bolometers will be plotted in a second window or overlaid for comparison.

-s min max

Y-axis scales for plot (can be changed via menu).

bol

list of bolometers to plot. Type `all' for 1..37 and `alls' for 1..91. Can be added via menu if mode = `r'.

Examples:

pltbol

The user will be asked for an input file before proceeding to the menu.

pltbol -f o39_lon_ext

Plot bolometers from o39_lon_ext.sdf and ask for the bolometer list.

pltbol -f s14_lon_ext 12 13 18 20 25 26 19

Use file s14_lon_ext.sdf. Plot bolometers 12,13, 18, 20, 25, 26 and 19.

Notes:

• If the overlay comes up scrambled, delete the agi_xxx files in your home directory and if that does not work also files like linplot.sdf in the /home/you/adam subdirectory.

Related Applications

SURF: dspbol, rlinplot;
KAPPA: linplot, cursor

Bugs:

Freezes when asked to plot a bad bolometer.