MDAG(1)

NAME
mDAG - Create a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) for Pegasus

SYNOPSIS
mDAG survey band objstr width height cdelt workdir workurlbase [urlbase] mDAG -h survey band hdrfile workdir workurlbase [urlbase]

DESCRIPTION
mDAG creates an XML-based Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) that specifies "jobs" or Montage modules to be run to produce a mosaic, "files" to be consumed or generated during processing (input, intermediate, and output files), and "dependencies" between jobs and files that imply an order in which jobs should be run. In this "abstract graph", logical names are assigned to jobs and files. The abstract graph is intended to be an input to a job scheduler, such as Pegasus in the Chimera Virtual Data System.

OPTIONS

-h  Output mosaic is based on a header file rather than explicit object name (for location), sizes and scale.

ARGUMENTS

survey
    mDAG has custom code for dealing with surveys (e.g. DSS) where we know we have to use the slower mProject module rather than mProjectPP.

band
    mDAG also has custom code for the 2MASS survey where Montage scales the data to a project-specified magnitude zero point by band (J,H,K).

objstr
    Object name, resolved through NED/SIMBAD for sky location.

width/height
    Size of the image in degrees.

cdelt
    Pixel scale in degrees.

hdrfile
    Instead of objstr, width, height, and cdelt the user an provide a pre-built FITS header.

workdir
    There are a collection of files the processing will need ane which mDAG creates. The user needs to create a location for this and give it to mDAG.

workurlbase
    While working, some files in the workspace are accessed via URL. Again, this needs to be set up by the user beforehand.

urlbase
    Optionally, results can be made URL-accessible if this parameter is given.

RESULT
If successful, the workspace will be populated with severeal tables and with the "dag.xml" file to be given to the workflow manager.

MESSAGES

ERROR
    Error opening debug file

ERROR
    Error opening header template file

ERROR
    Error opening big header template file

ERROR
    Error opening image list

ERROR
    Error opening working file list for write

ERROR
    Error opening working file list for read

ERROR
    Error opening parent list

ERROR
    Error opening sorted parent list

ERROR
    Bad template: file

ERROR
    Output wcsinit() failed.

ERROR
    general error message

ERROR
    No return message from object lookup.

ERROR
    Invalid location specification or object name.

ERROR
    Can't find RA in lookup return.

ERROR
    Can't find Dec in lookup return.

ERROR
    Couldn't find host hostname

ERROR
    Couldn't create socket()

ERROR, msg=
    hostname: connect failed.

EXAMPLES

mDAG 2mass j m51 0.5 0.5 0.00277778 m51work http://montage-web.ipac.caltech.edu/workspace/m51
    [struct stat="OK", id="20150904_095958_21631"]

BUGS
The drizzle algorithm has been implemented but has not been tested in this release.

If a header template contains carriage returns (i.e., created/modified on a Windows machine), the cfitsio library will be unable to read it properly, resulting in the error: [struct stat="ERROR", status=207, msg="illegal character in keyword"]

It is best for the background correction algorithms if the area described in the header template completely encloses all of the input images in their entirety. If parts of input images are "chopped off" by the header template, the background correction will be affected. We recommend you use an expanded header for the reprojection and background modeling steps, returning to the originally desired header size for the final coaddition. The default background matching assumes that there are no non-linear background variations in the individual images (and therefore in the overlap differences). If there is any uncertainty in this regard, it is safer to turn on the "level only" background matching (the "-l" flag in mBgModel.

COPYRIGHT
2001-2015 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

If your research uses Montage, please include the following acknowledgement: "This research made use of Montage. It is funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number ACI-1440620, and was previously funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Technology Office, Computation Technologies Project, under Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 between NASA and the California Institute of Technology."

The Montage distribution includes an adaptation of the MOPEX algorithm developed at the Spitzer Science Center.