1 FITS_GILDAS FITS_GILDAS Converts a disk FITS image in a GILDAS image. A disk FITS image is an 2880 bytes per block file conforming to FITS standard for the information written in the blocks. Such disk FITS images can be produced by other packages (e.g. AIPS). This task is intended for a single image. For many images, or tape FITS, use the interactive program GFITS. Images are assumed to have at most 4 axis. FITS_GILDAS also handles UVFIT data. Conversion for FITS to GILDAS data format is not necessary: "on-the-fly" conversion of FITS files into GILDAS images is automatically attempted by all GILDAS programs and tasks. This conversion creates a temporary GILDAS image (of extension .fits.gdf) which is normally deleted upon completion. However, this "on-the-fly" conversion will fail if the FITS keywords are highly non-standard. 2 FITS$ TASK\FILE "Input FITS file" FITS$ Input disk FITS file name. 2 OUT$ TASK\FILE "Output Gildas Image" OUT$ Output GILDAS image name 2 STYLE$ TASK\CHARACTER "Style of FITS image" STYLE$ The "Style" of FITS files. Many supposedly standard FITS files have small (although non-fatal) deviations from the (uncomplete) FITS standard. The STYLE$ keyword is used to correct for some of these. Available styles are - STANDARD - CPC (IRAS Chopped Photometric Channel) : uses a non- standard definition of axes, and a bizarre quasi-projection system. - SPLINE (IRAS spline maps) : those maps have an incorrect flux density scale. Correction factor applied when this keyword is specified. 2 BLC$ TASK\INTEGER "Bottom left corner (all 0 ==> full image)" BLC$[4] Define the bottom left corner of the input FITS file to be considered. BLC is an array of dimension 4, since images are assumed to have at most 4-D. 0 means 1. 2 TRC$ TASK\INTEGER "Top right corner (all 0 ==> full image)" TRC$[4] Define the top right corner of the input FITS file to be considered. 0 means use the actual dimension. 1 END