MOPEX User's Guide - IRSA

Appendix B. Full List of Modules in MOPEX
Running MOPEX on the
Command Line
MOPEX User’s Guide
The following tables contain a full list of all of the modules available in MOPEX, with their
namelist triggers, a brief description, and the prerequisites for each module. The modules are
organised in the order that you might encounter them in the MOPEX scripts.
B.1 Overlap Modules
Module Name Namelist Trigger Brief Description Module
Prerequisites
Initial Setup N/A Set up the input files. On the command
line, this is done in the main body of the
namelist. See §9.4 for details.
Overlap Settings N/A Sets up the pipeline-specific global
input parameters. On the command line,
this is done in the main body of the
namelist. See §9.4 for details.
S/N Estimator compute_uncertainties_internally Internally estimates the uncertainty for
each pixel in the image when no
independent uncertainty estimate is
available. Only use if you do not trust
the uncertainty images provided with
your Spitzer data download.
M edFilter run_medfilter Performs background subtraction of the
individual images. Only required if you
intend to use Bright Object Masking
Fiducial Image
Frame
run_fiducial_image_frame Creates the unified grid coordinate
system and defines the spatial
boundaries that will include all of the
input data frames (the FIF table).
Detect (Outlier) run_detect_outlier Performs image segmentation and
produces detection maps of bright
objects. This identifies bright pixels that
should not contribute to the background
matching calculation.
Mosaic
Interpolate
run_mosaic_int Performs a projection of input images
onto a 2D plane defined by the FIF table
and interpolates the input pixels to the
output array. Also corrects for optical
distortion in the input images.
None
None
Initial Setup,
Overlap Settings
Initial Setup,
Overlap Settings
Initial Setup,
Overlap Settings
Initial Setup,
Overlap Settings
Fiducial Image
Frame; S/N
Estimator (if
S/N Estimator is
turned on).
Running PRF Estimate on the command
line