This routine
reads in a list of user specified files and concatenates their data, variance and quality arrays
so that
Kappa routines like
stats and
kstest can analyse a complete set of photometry
observations.
scucat can be configured so that either all data are concatenated into one file
regardless of bolometer (METHOD=catall) or data for each bolometer is kept separate
(METHOD=separate). In the latter case, if a file contained data for H7 and H9 then two
output files would be created (e.g. test_h7 and test_h9 - if the OUT parameter was set to
‘test’) and for each new bolometer a new file is created (existing files are overwritten) and
data is appended to these files when more data for these bolometers is supplied.
BOL = CHAR (Read)
If the input file is an NDF (and not
an HDS container as expected) then this parameter should be given to tell the software
the bolometer that should be associated with this data.
IN = NDF (Read)
The input
dataset(s). This parameter is requested repeatedly until a NULL (!) value is given. The input
dataset can either be output from
scuphot or an NDF file. A comma-separated list of files is
allowed. A text file containing a list of files can be specified using the up-carat symbol
(
) in
front of the text file name.
LOOP = LOGICAL (Read)
Turns the looping on (default is
true) or off (false)
METHOD = CHAR (Read)
Governs whether data from different
bolometers are combined regardless (CATALL) or written to separate files (SEPARATE).
Default is ‘SEPARATE’. The choice of this parameter governs the behaviour of the OUT
parameter.
MSG_FILTER = CHAR (Read)
Message filter level. Allowed values are QUIET,
NORM and VERB. Default is NORM. There are no verbose messages.
OUT = CHAR
(Write)
If METHOD=separate this parameter governs the root name of the output NDF (i.e.
OUT_bol).
If METHOD=catall this parameter can be used to specify the actual output file
name.