The procedure was initially carried out on non-overlapping 9-regions around the NGP and the SGP. This involved 36 central plates and their surrounding regions. For uniformity we are now using a sliding box methodolgy so that each plate, in turn, becomes the central plate to have its magnitudes defined by 9 plate wide CCD observations.
[~aam/dposs_bin/]sliding_box.pl is the program to use for this.
It takes either one or two aruments. If used with a single argument, the
argument is the plate number to be treated as the central plate. Thus,
sliding_box.pl 444
will run assuming that plate 444 is the central
plate. If given two arguments, e.g.
sliding_box.pl 441 450
It will work for plates 441 through 450.
At present this is what the program does:
determine the 9-plate (or 8- or 10-) plate region surrounding the central plate,
figure out who is whose immediate neighbour (using splines.list) and figure out
2- and 4-paths to these immediate neighbours. To the remaining plates it
figures out the 3- and 5-paths. It then makes appropriate input files
for MEANSPLINES in a directory having the same name as the plate number and
copies the appropriate spline files there (from dposs:/aam/splines). It then
CDs there and runs MEANSPLINES for each in.PLATE1_PLATE2 file. Once the
meansplines are generated along with the appropriate plots, the auxiliarry files
are deleted.
Wishlist: make more auxiliarry steps so that further procedures in the pipeline get automated.
Last Outdated: 12 Feb 2001