MOPEX User's Guide - IRSA

Chapter 9. Running MOPEX on the Command Line
9.1 Setting up MOPEX
MOPEX User’s Guide
MOPEX can be downloaded from the website. We assume that you have downloaded the
installation file and followed the installation instructions. The following steps must then be
followed to set up MOPEX for the command line:
• Edit the file mopex-script-env.csh (found in the MOPEX installation directory) to set the
installation path MOPEX_INSTALLATION to the current directory (pwd) e.g. if
MOPEX is in /home/joe/mopex, then you should set the following in mopex-scriptenv.csh:
setenv MOPEX_INSTALLATION /home/joe/mopex.
• Running cshell (not bash), source mopex-script-env.csh:
unix% source mopex-script-env.csh
• MOPEX can now be run from the command line using the syntax described at the bottom
of this section.
9.2 Setting up the MOPEX directory structure
Once MOPEX has been set up for the command line, you need to create the expected directory
structure. We will call the directory containing your data , the directory containing the
MOPEX software , and the directory from which you are planning to run MOPEX
. Your can be , but doesn’t have to be.
MOPEX expects 4 basic input types:
1. your input FITS images (e.g. Spitzer BCDs);
2. ASCII text files listing the input images;
3. a file listing the parameters you want to use to reduce your data (the "namelist");
4. any required calibration files (e.g. pmasks, sample PRFs etc).
Running MOPEX on the Command Line 222 Setting up MOPEX