flux, weight Set the estimated flux expected from a baseline of zero length. EXAMPLE ------- 0>uvzero 10, 100 Zero-baseline flux set to 10 Jy. Weight=100. 0> The second line is the response from the 'uvzero' command, confirming the user's selection. To see the value of the current zero-spacing flux omit all arguments: 0>uvzero Zero-baseline flux set to 10 Jy. Weight=100. 0> To cancel a previously set zero-baseline flux spefiy zero. 0>uvzero 0,0 Zero-baseline flux not set. 0> PARAMETER --------- flux - The estimated total flux of the observation (Jy). This will be treated as though it were the flux density of a normal visibility at U=0 and V=0. weight - The visibility weight to be assigned to the zero-baseline flux. This is the weight to be seen after application of wtscale and has the same form as the weights of normal visibilities. However note that the addition of a zero-baseline visibility is like the addition of a single extra sample in the UV plane and will have very little effect unless a large weight is used. Whenever a new UV data set is read with the 'observe' command, the default value of flux=0.0 is set. CONTEXT ------- If an observation is so defficient in short baselines that no value is added to the pixel at the origin of the U,V plane grid, then the total flux in the dirty map will equal zero (as required by Fourier transform theory). For very extended sources this may result in low brightness regions of the source appearing to be negative because the flux in every pixel of the map is offset by a small negative amount. The effect may be countered to some extent by adding a fake visibility at the origin of the UV plane. Unfortunately, while the total estimated flux of the source can be used to set the amplitude of the visibility and the phase at the origin is known to be zero, the weight to give the visibility is a matter of experimentation. A weight value that is much higher than the average weight of the observed visibilities will be needed if any effect is to be seen. The best value will depend on the distribution of the observed visibilities and their weights. In practice it is probably easier to get rid of negative bowls by model fitting rather than experimenting with the zero-spacing flux. SIDE EFFECTS ------------ Use of this command will cause the next 'clean', 'mapplot' etc.. to re-invert the modified UV data-set to produce an updated dirty beam and residual map.