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Gridding time/frequency/Keeping track of time in MIRIAD

Observations such as the one in CARMA are tagging by time, and map portions of the sky at a number of frequencies. As such the concept of understanding gridding coordinates becomes important how ``pixels'' are labeled. Are they using the center, or are they using the start of a interval/pixel/voxel... This section will clarify the conventions in MIRIAD. In FITS, an astronomy standard to exchange data, the convention is always the center of the pixel/interval, as long as the FITS keyswords NAXISn, CRVALn, CDELTn, CRPIXn, CTYPEn are involved.



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Peter
2009-10-05