Using PEARL to image Eta Vir

set_complexvis

ComplexVis set.

Warning(PEARL): imsize(0) must be odd, set to: 181
Warning(PEARL): imsize(1) must be odd, set to: 301
Mapsize is 72.4000 by 120.400
Computing dirty beam in 15 channels...
Computing dirty map..

Initial chisq= 24.980139
SVD: will edit 0 singular values!
Iteration 1 completed; chisq = 7.0768102
SVD: will edit 0 singular values!
Iteration 2 completed; chisq = 1.4564982
SVD: will edit 0 singular values!
Iteration 3 completed; chisq = 0.80119876
SVD: will edit 0 singular values!
Iteration 4 completed; chisq = 0.79117879
SVD: will edit 0 singular values!
Iteration 5 completed; chisq = 0.79115287
Final chisq= 0.79115287, reduced = 0.098894108
Iter= 6, Alamda= 0.000
SVD: will edit 0 singular values!
Synthesized beam 3.31332 by 2.01176 mas, pa = 158.324 degrees.

First click the on the Selfcal button, then click the Shift button and enter these shift values (in mas): 25,45. After another delay, the map will be shifted to the upper right so that we may image also the tertiary component in the lower left (not yet visible!).

Now define a "Region" (following the instructions as to how to set the box in the smaller field in the upper right), and use 5000,4 for the Teff,log(g) combination to use for model CLEAN components. (This step is part of the here unused multi-wavelength capability of PEARL.) Notice that the CLEAN slider is not active until the region is set. You should then be looking at the following display. This is the PEARL widget. It is a clickable map for explanations of the maps and buttons.

To begin CLEANing the map click/drag on the CLEAN slider. Due to the large size of the image there is again a delay in executing CLEAN, so wait for the green CLEAN window (i.e. the Region) to show up in the lower right residual map, along with the green colored CLEAN components. You can now adjust the slider to the left and right to select the desired number of CLEAN components. At this stage, it is important to subtract not too many components since most of them would be associated with self-calibration artefacts. Select about 30, as shown here.

Click Update to add the selected number of CLEAN component to the current model (which was empty at the start), self-calibrate the phases, subtract the CLEAN components from the data, and re-display the updated residual and final maps. The CLEAN slider moves back to zero for a new cycle of hybrid mapping. For the next iteration, just subtract about 20 CLEAN components.

After this is complete, do two more "Update" iterations subtracting all 100 CLEAN components in each step. The maps should then look something like this.

Notice how the residual map rms, and printed to the message window, decreases. At the same time, you can see how the residual map (in the lower right) only shows noise and residual dirty beam patterns. Now click on "Contour", and a map similar to the following should be displayed.

Remember that you may not get the same result, and that the quality of the maps varies. PEARL as implemented in OYSTER does not yet take data weights into account, so there is room for improvement. If you want to see how the map visibilities fit the observed visibilities, you have to read in a special model file:

readmodel,image.model
calcmodel

This model file lists only one component (instead of the three in etavir.model) and uses the star_model.mode parameter to tell OYSTER that it is a map stored with PEARL (rather than, e.g., a limb darkened disk) to transform.

You can then plot the observed and model data using the well known plot widgets we have encountered earlier.

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