x_units, flags Preset specplot display options. EXAMPLES -------- 1. To see the currently selected options without changing them, omit all arguments. 0>specopt Specplot x-axis=channels flags="3jJe". 0> 2. To select an X-axis that is labelled in units of frequency instead of channels, and change the flags such that lines are drawn as simple vectors instead of bins. 0>specopt 5, frequency, 3j Specplot nplot=5 x-axis=frequency flags="3j". 0> ARGUMENTS --------- x_units - Remembered. Initial default = channel The units plotted on the X-axis of each spectrum. Valid values are: channels - Spectral-line channels. frequency - Spectral-line channel center frequencies. Unambiguous abbreviations are recognized. flags - Remembered. Initial default = "3jJ". Plot option flags. Many of the toggled options that are bound to keyboard keys for interactive use in specplot, can be preset by placing those same keys in a string. The initial default string of flags specifies that both amplitude and phase will be plotted (3), that neighboring points will be joined (j) to form a histogram style plot (J) and that error bars be plotted (e). See 'help specplot' for the meaning of other toggle options. CONTEXT ------- The specplot command plots time-averaged visibility spectra. By default it plots one spectrum for each baseline in one's observation, at 3 plots per page, plotting each as amplitude and phase versus channel number. Neighboring points are joined by lines, using a style similar to a histogram to indicate how the data are binned into channels. The x-axis of the plotted spectra is always plotted in order of increasing channel number, and IF number. However the values plotted along the axis can be changed to other forms with the 'x_unit' argument. This effects the X-axis scale, but not the ordering of points. Thus two IFs plotted side by side may show frequencies that increase in opposite directions. There are a number of other binary options that effect the way that spectra are plotted but do not require that the spectra be reconstructed. Interactively these are toggled via keyboard keys and those options will be remembered between specplot sessions. These can be seen by typing specopt without any arguments, or they can be replaced by specifying a new string of option flags with the 'flags' argument. The individual flags are described in the specplot help pages. Related commands ---------------- specplot - Plot time-averaged visibility spectra. specsmooth - Preset the spectral resolution displayed by specplot. specorder - Set the order in which spectra are to be displayed. specbase - Select the baselines to be displayed by specplot. specpol - Select the list of polarizations to be displayed by specplot. spectime - Select the time ranges to be displayed by specplot. specuvr - Select the UV radius ranges to be displayed by specplot.