Some Miriad tricks that might be useful. [Last update: Jun 04, 2015]

Acknowledgements: Qizhou Zhang, Tao-Chung Ching.

Please let me know if you find something wrong or you have better solutions to these issues, thanks!

References:

1. MIRIAD for SMA
2. ATNF MIRIAD
3. MIRIAD MacPort

General Issues

• The invert task will not use data of one antenna if part of its spectrum has been flagged or missing, unless you specify the 'slop' keyword! (e.g. 'slop=1,zero' will replace all bad channels with 0.)
• If a keyword is too long, for example the input of invert when mosaicing a very large area with hundreds of pointings, one can list all the input parameters in a file and use 'keyword=@filename'.