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1. accretionEnergy -- Computes gravitational potential energy of a piece of gas falling onto an object
2. accretionLuminosity -- Computes gravitational potential luminosity of a piece of gas falling toward an object
3. addLineToScripts -- Adds a line to the bottom of a script, or list of scripts
4. addLinks -- Adds soft links to a directory based on existing subdirectory names
5. adjustDivergingLut -- Removes the middle N values of a diverging RGB color lookup table and stretches the remainder together (to make better outflow palettes)
6. angularSeparationOfImagePeaks -- Finds the peak in two images and computes the angular separation in arcsec, and fractional beams
7. aperturePhotometry -- Uses rg.wpolygon to approximate (up to) two circles of different radii, and subtracts the flux of one from the other (works for continuum and cubes)
8. appendParameterToScript -- Takes a script of N lines containing a call of the same task and appends an additional parameter to the end of each one.
9. applyRadecOffsetToFile -- Applies an RA/Dec offset to an ASCII table of positions
10. argmedian -- Returns a list of indices of an array corresponding to the value(s) equal to or closest to the median
11. atmosphericVariation -- Computes the percentage variation in transmission and Tsky across an image cube's spectral axis
12. auToRsun -- converts au to solar radii
13. averageOverIspecs -- Computes the average of two (or more) spectra created by tt.ispec
14. avgOverCube -- Computes the average spectrum across a multi-dimensional array that has been read from a cube
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15. backgroundSources -- Computes the expected number of background radio point sources in a field
16. beamAreaRatio -- Computes the ratio of the synthesized beam area between two images
17. bindingEnergy -- Computes the binding energy of a (uniform density) star of given mass and radius
18. binge -- Copy a file into multiple other filenames, incrementing a number in the name
19. blondinEta -- Computes eta parameter from ratio of jet velocity to bowshock velocity
20. boxToRadians -- Convert a casa region file "box" string to a pair of Ra/Dec's
21. brightness -- Convert flux density, frequency and beamsize to brightness temperature (and on to dust and gas mass)
22. brightnesses -- Runs brightness on a list of images
23. brightnessImage -- Converts an image in flux density units into brightness temperature units
24. buildAplpyPolygons -- Takes a list of RA/Dec centers and widths/heights/rotations and returns list for show_polygons
25. buildAplpyRectangles -- Takes a list of RA/Dec centers and widths/heights and returns parameters for show_rectangles
26. buildBoxRegion -- Builds a casa box region string from the specified blc and trc coordinates (specified in radians)
27. buildFilterConvolutions -- Add new filters to Robitaille's sedfitter module
28. buildRobustWeightingGrid -- Run image simulations of all ALMA cycle 5 configurations
29. buildMomDiff -- builds the images that findContinuum makes: mom0fc, mom8fc, mom0fcScaled and momDiff
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30. calibratorImageFluxes -- Finds the calibrator images of a pipeline runs and reports their fitted flux and noise
31. calibratorImagePeaks -- Finds the calibrator images of a pipeline runs and reports their peak intesntiy and noise
32. cas7210 -- Makes plots for CAS-7210
33. checkAlternateRefant -- Searches a casa log for appearances of an alternate refant being used in a gain solution
34. checkBandpassEqualsFlux -- Checks a list of pipeline runs to see if any EB has separate BP and Flux calibrator
35. checkCalibratorImageFluxes -- Runs au.calibratorImageFluxes on a list of pipeline runs and builds a histogram
36. checkCompareCparamFromCaltables -- runs compareCparamFromCaltables for a list of pipeline runs
37. checkCompareTimesFromCaltables -- runs compareTimesFromCaltables for a list of pipeline runs
38. checkComparePipelineTaskExecutionTimes -- runs comparePipelineTaskExecutionTimes for a list of pipeline runs
39. checkCorrectMyAntennaPositions -- runs correctMyAntennaPositions for a list of pipeline runs
40. checkFluxcsv -- runs compareFluxcsv on the flux.csv files from a list of pipeline run pairs
41. checkForMissingPointingEntries -- Checks a group of pipeline runs for any EB with an antenna with missing pointing table values
42. checkForMissingPointingSolutions -- Checks a group of pipeline runs for any EB with an antenna with missing pointing calibration solutions
43. checkForMultipleSolutionTimes -- Checks a collection of pipeline runs for any lowgainflag caltables that contain more than 1 solution time
44. checkLargeCubeSize -- Computes size in MB of the largest cube per pipeline run of a list of pipeline runs
45. checkLowgainflag -- Checks a directory of pipeline runs for entries in the text flag tables in the lowgainflag stage
46. checkLowSNRPositions -- Checks a directory of pipeline runs for low SNR positions rejected by correctMyAntennaPositions
47. checkLowTransmission -- Looks for low transmission on a per-scan, per-vis basis of a list of pipeline runs
48. checkLSRKRanges -- runs lsrkRangeForSpw on a list of pipeline runs
49. checkMultiUserRuns -- Calls checkruns for each specified user in succession
50. checkNumberOfPhaseCalibrators -- Calls getPhaseCalibrators for a list of pipeline runs
51. checkNumchan -- Compiles dictionary of number of channels in science spws in a list of pipeline runs
52. checkOnlineChannelAveraging -- Compiles dictionary of online channel averaging factor in science spws in a list of pipeline runs
53. checkPads -- Compiles a list of all unique pad names used by a series of pipeline runs
54. checkPBAtImageCenter -- Calls imageCenter for all continuum images in a series of pipeline runs
55. checkPipelineChanchunks -- Compiles list of chanchunk values used for mfs and cube imaging in a list of pipeline runs
56. checkPipelineChecksource -- Checks if a checksource is included in the first EB of each pipeline run in a list of pipeline runs in a directory
57. checkPipelinePhasecalSolint -- Runs pipelinePhasecalSolint on a list of pipeline runs
58. checkPipelineRepBWCube -- Searches pipeline working directories for presence of .repBW. cubes
59. checkPipelineRobust -- Runs pipelineRobust on a set of pipeline runs
60. checkPipelineSevere -- Runs pipelineSevere on all CASA logs in a set of pipeline runs
61. checkPipelineSpwBandwidths -- finds the bandwidths of the science spws of a list of pipeline runs
62. checkPlotmsMemory -- Runs plotmsMemory on all CASA logs in a set of pipeline runs
63. checkPlotSpectraFromMask -- Runs plotSpectrumFromMask for all cubes in a set of pipeline runs
64. checkruns -- Finds the working directory of each pipeline run on the specified root directory
65. checkStrongTsysLines -- Checks a directory of pipeline runs for the presence of strong features in the Tsys spectra
66. checkSurmiseConfiguration -- Runs surmiseConfiguration on all ASDMs of a set of pipeline runs
67. checkTimePipelineImaging -- Builds a dictionary of tclean run times
68. checkTsysFlags -- Runs pipelineTsysFlag on a set of pipeline runs
69. checkVersions -- Runs versionsFromWeblog on a list of pipeline runs to compile the CASA and pipeline version info for those project code / MOUS
70. checkZeroPixels -- Builds a histogram of percentage of pixels equal to zero from a specific 2D image from a series of pipeline runs
71. clearMask -- clears the mask in a CASA image
72. clusterCentroid -- Computes the centroid of a set of sky positions, optionally weighted by intensity
73. clusterMatches -- Computes the nearest neighbor star in list 2 for each star in list 1
74. clusterStatistics -- Computes statistics of a set of X,Y points or sky positions
75. collectPipelineSpectra -- Finds all spectra pngs from pipeline images created in a specific pipeline stage
76. combineUncertainties -- Computes expected new uncertainty when combining datasets
77. compareFluxcsv -- Compares two flux.csv files
78. compareFluxcsvs -- Compares a list of pairs of flux.csv files in a directory
79. compareL80 -- Compares the achieved beamsize in a pipeline reduced dataset with the L80 formula and the im.fitpsf prediction
80. compareL80list -- Calls compareL80 on a list of pipeline reductions and produces a summary table
81. composite -- Takes a base png image, and overlays one or two other images on it at a specified offset location and scale size.
82. computeMeanSeparation -- Compute the mean separation of a set of points
83. computeRcluster -- Compute the radius and mean position of a set of points.
84. computeSignedStd -- Compute asymmetric 1-sigma errors of a list
85. concatSMAdataset -- Uses offsetScanNumbers to concatenate several measurement sets exported from MIR/IDL using autofits and previously filled to ms using MIRSFITStoCASA
86. convertBenchmarkScript -- Converts a regression script of findContinuum to a new ALMA cycle
87. convertChannelListIntoSelection -- Converts a list of channels into a CASA selection string syntax, with optional trimming
88. convertColonDelimitersToPeriods -- Converts Ra Dec string with colons in the Dec to one with periods in the Dec
89. convertSelectionIntoChannelList -- Converts a CASA channel selection string into an array of channels.
90. convolveChannel -- convolves a sinc function with the Hann window, and normalizes the resulting spectrum to unity
91. convolveChannelAveraging -- convolves a sinc function with the Hann window, then convolves with 2,4,8, or 16 delta functions and normalizes the resulting spectrum to unity
92. convolveChannelAveragingPlot -- calls convolveChannelAveraging, then plots the result
93. convolveChannelAveragingPlots -- calls convolveChannelAveragingPlot for each value of 1,2,4,8,16 and builds a montage
94. convolveChannelPlot -- calls convolveChannel, then plots the result
95. convolveImfitComponent -- Takes the deconvolved size of an imfit component and convolves it with a different beam
96. convolveTwoEllipses -- Convolves a gaussian source with the beam of a specified image
97. correlateRuns -- Compares execution times of two sets of pipeline run pairs
98. correlateVisstatDifferences -- Computes fractional difference of per-scan/per-spw visibility statistics between two pipeline runs
99. countLinesPythonCode -- Counts lines of code in *.py files in specified directory tree
100. crtfToMask -- Converts a CASA CRTF region file to a mask for a specified image
101. crtfToPixelList -- Converts a CASA CRTF region file containing 'symbol' shapes to a list of pixels in a specified image
102. cubeDerivative -- Compute the derivative along the spectral axis of a cube
103. cubeLSRKRangesToTopo -- Converts an LSRK channel selection string to TOPO frequency ranges and TOPO channel ranges in a specific ms
104. cumulativeMaserVersusContinuum -- Plots the fraction of maser intensity and spots that are located outside a fractional continuum level in an image
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105. deflection -- Computes the gravitational bending of light for a star at a specified angle for a given distance and mass of a central body
106. deflectionDifferential -- Computes the differential deflection between two fields in a measurement set
107. deflectionPlot -- Plots the bending of light vs. angle from the Sun
108. deflectionPlotJupiter -- Plots the bending of light vs. angle from the Jupiter
109. deflectionPlotSaturn -- Plots the bending of light vs. angle from the Saturn
110. deflectionPlotUranus -- Plots the bending of light vs. angle from the Uranus
111. deflectionPlotNeptune -- Plots the bending of light vs. angle from the Neptune
112. dirtyDR -- makes a plot of the dynamic range modifier vs. dynamic range used by the ALMA imaging pipeline
113. ds9regionToList -- Converts the markers in a ds9 region file from sexagesimal RA, Dec into lists of RA and Dec in degrees
114. dustLuminosity -- Computes the area under the curve of flux density vs. frequency
115. dustSublimationRadius -- Computes radius where a power-law temperature profile reaches a specified temperature
116. dustyProfiles -- Plots radial profiles output by the radiative transfer code DUSTY
117. dynamicalTime -- Computes dynamical time for an outflow
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118. eddingtonLuminosity -- Computes Eddington limit luminosity for a given mass
119. editComponentList -- Edits the frequency column in a component list
120. exportfits -- Runs exportfits on an image or list of images, automatically appending '.fits'
121. extractcal -- Extracts all the applycal and gaincal calls from a CASA log and wraps them
122. extractImagenamesFromScript -- Reads a file of tclean commands and returns a list of the imagename arguments
123. extractPageFromPDF -- extracts one page from a PDF file
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124. fillFitResults -- Convert output file from Robitaille's sedfitter into easier to read format
125. filterScriptFor7m -- Filters a list of commands that contain measurement sets, passing only those where the first ms has a majority of 7m antennas"
126. filterSources -- Extracts a subset of sources within a specified RA/Dec box from a larger list
127. filterTable -- Filter a list of sources in an ASCII table to those within a specified radius of a specified direction
128. filtwav -- Extracts the wavelength from a filter defining FITS file in the Robitaille SED fitter package
129. findChannelRanges -- takes a spectrum and determines a string list of all channel ranges below a threshold
130. findContinuumForPixel -- Examines the intensity histogram of a spectrum and returns the channels that are close to the continuum level as located by the rolloff point
131. findContinuumHistogram -- Takes a cube and list of pixels, builds a histogram of flux density to identify continuum level, then finds the best continuum channels (calls findContinuumForPixel or findContinuumForPixelSCL)
132. findFrequencyForTau -- compute frequency for a specific dust opacity and value of beta
133. findGreyBodyFluxRatio -- computed the required tau to produce the observed flux ratio between two frequencies
134. findIntersection -- Finds the intersection point for 2 lines, each defined by a pair of points
135. findOuterAnnulusForPBCube -- Finds the scaled up values of a size mitigated cube that correspond to 0.2-0.3
136. findPipelineMeasurementSets -- Finds list of ms in a pipeline run
137. findSpectralAxis -- finds the spectral axis number of a CASA cube
138. findTargetFlagVisAndSpw -- finds vislist and spwlist for each vis that contains flags from hifa_targetflag
139. fitForDustTemp -- Fit for dust temperature, using a measured brightness temperature, source size, and beta
140. fitForDustTempWithFree -- Fit for free-free component plus a dust temperature, using a measured brightness temperature, source size, and beta
141. fixEps -- Modifies an eps file with a negative blc bounding box to make it non-negative
142. fixRestFreq -- Uses imhead to change the restfreq in the header of a cube
143. flagNonScanTimeRanges -- Flags data by timerange that are outside of the scans of a specified intent
144. fluxBrightness -- Computes flux density that corresponds to specified brightness temperature
145. fusOffset -- Applies a frequency shift to an ASCII file spectrum written in the column format expected by CASSIS
146. fusPlot -- Plots an ASCII file spectrum written in the column format expected by CASSIS
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147. gatherCubeSpectra -- makes a montage of ALMA pipeline cube spectra
148. gaussianPercentile -- Computes the statistics of a Gaussian distribution restricted to the specified lower percentile
149. gaussianPercentilePlot -- Plots the statistics of a Gaussian distribution restricted to the specified lower percentile vs. that percentile
150. getFreqType -- Returns the frequency frame of the specified image
151. getIntensityForPixel -- Gets the intensity at a specific pixel
152. getTransitionFrequencies -- Reads a Leiden LAMDA file for a molecule and returns all frequencies
153. getTransitionInfo -- Reads a Leiden LAMDA file for a molecule and returns 4 lists of info
154. greybodyFluxDensity -- Computes flux density of a greybody using a dictionary of lmfit parameters
155. greybodyFluxDensityJy -- Computes flux density of a greybody from temperature, tau, solid angle and frequency
156. greybodyFluxRatio -- Computes the ratio of flux densities of a greybody at two frequencies
157. greybodyIntensity -- Computes the intensity of a greybody
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158. help -- prints a list of all the functions defined at the top level of toddTools.py
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159. imageBiweightMean -- Computes the biweight_mean scale of a CASA image using the algorithm in IDLASTRO
160. imageCompareStats -- Computes the classic and various robust estimators of the rms of a CASA image
161. imageFromFits -- creates a CASA image from a FITS image that has no RA/Dec coordinates using a template CASA image of the same region
162. imageFromFORCAST -- creates a CASA image for a SOFIA FORCAST FITS image with 3 planes in the 3rd dimension, using just the first plane
163. imageRejection -- computes relative integration times as image sideband rejection is improved
164. imageRobustSigma -- Computes the robust sigma of a CASA image using the algorithm in IDLASTRO
165. imageSimulationToReality -- Copies a radMC3D simulation cube into the subimage of a cube of the sky
166. imageSize -- returns size of image in arcseconds or primary beamwidths
167. imageSizeBytes -- computes the size of all files in a directory tree
168. imageSpectralIndex -- Computes a spectral index image from two images
169. imcombine -- Combines non-frequency-overlapping subcubes with the same frequency grid and spatial dimension into a single cube.
170. imfitBrightnessTemperature -- Reads a list of files of format imfitparseCLB and finds the one with peak intensity, then uses its fitted flux density and fitted size
171. imfitCube -- Runs imfit on all, or a list of channels in a CASA cube, generating a plot with errorbars
172. imfitEstimateChanges -- Computes the percentage change in the parameters between two files of imfit estimates
173. imfitIterate -- Runs imfit successively with the new estimates produced from the previous iteration until the result stops changing
174. imfitResultsToLatex -- Takes a list of imfit results and produces a Latex table
175. immoments4panel -- Builds moment images 0,1,2,8 of a CASA cube, then plots them on a 4-panel page
176. importfitshdu -- imports multiple HDUs from a single FITS image into multiple casa images
177. importsma -- imports one or more SMA UVFITS files that have been processed by uti_to_topo in MIR IDL
178. imstatBackground -- run imstat on the specified box region, then on the 4 adjacent boxes to determine the lowest rms in all 5 boxes
179. imstatCube -- compute the rms and standard deviation of chunks of a CASA image cube, and plots the result
180. imstatparse -- converts a dictionary returned by imstat into a formatted string
181. imsubimageRadec -- runs imsubimage centered on a specified RA Dec
182. imviewOverlayEllipse -- Overlay an ellipse using CASA imview -- obsoleted by au.imviewField(ellipse)
183. inclinationError -- computes the uncertainty on the inclination of a circular disk based on the apparent major and minor axes of its elliptical projection
184. insertBookmarks -- insert bookmarks into a PDF
185. intensityWeightedOffsetToRadec -- combine LL and RR fitted masers into intensity weighted positions nd velocities
186. invertChannelRanges -- a wrapper function to findChannelRanges which takes just a string and total number of channels (or vis and spw)
187. ionizingPhotonFlux -- computes equation 1 of Kurtz, Churchwell, Wood (1994)
188. ionizingPhotonRate -- computes Eq 6 of Turner & Matthews 1984
189. ionizingPhotonRateFromFluxDensity -- adjusts size of UCHII region until model flux density matches observed
190. ispec -- Emulates the AIPS task ISPEC to write an ASCII spectrum from one spatial pixel in a cube
191. ispecOverlay -- Overlay spectrum of a pixel from various cubes
192. ispecs -- Runs ispec on a list of images
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193. janskyToKelvinFile -- Converts an ASCII spectrum given in frequency and jansky/beam into frequency and brightness temperature K
     
194. kelvinHelmholtzTimescale -- compute this timescale for a specified mass, radius and luminosity
195. kelvinPerJansky -- computes the Kelvin per Jansky conversion factor for a FITS or CASA interferometric image
196. keplerianRadius -- given a period and mass (and inclination), returns the radius
197. keplerianRotation -- given a velocity and radius (and inclination), returns the mass
198. keplerianVelocity -- given a mass and radius (and inclination), returns the tangential velocity
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199. LbolFromLH2O -- Computes bolometric luminosity from water maser luminosity using Urquhart et al. 2001 Eq 9
200. lsrkRangeForSpw -- Computes the LSRK frequencies of the first and last channel of the same spw in a list of measurement sets
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201. magjy -- Converts between magnitudes and Janskys for optical through mid-infrared wavelengths
202. makeFlagTimeRanges -- Builds an array of period timerange strings suitable for use in flagdata on simulated measurement sets
203. makemaskForNewLine -- Copies the clean mask from one line cube to another
204. makeMaskFromEstimatesFiles -- Builds an aggregate 2D mask from a list of imfit estimates files using circular apertures
205. makemaskImage -- Builds a mask image from an existing image and a mask lattice expression
206. makeNoiseImage -- Takes an image as a template and creates a noise image over the same area
207. makeNoiseSpectrum -- Makes an array of random numbers of a specified std and mean
208. makeRobust1cubes -- Builds a script to run tclean to recreate pipeline image cubes with a different robust value
209. masercloud -- Makes a 3D plot of a sequence of maser spot files
210. maserLuminosity -- Computes luminosity for a spectral line
211. maserUpperLimit -- Computes lower limit to the maser increase factor when only upper limits are available from one epoch
212. maskChannel -- Mask a channel or range of channels in a CASA image cube
213. meanEpoch -- Uses au.yearFraction to compute mean epoch of a list of dates
214. meanPosition -- Takes two sexagesimal directions and computes the mean of both axes to produce a new direction
215. measuredProperMotion -- Takes a measured shift in RA seconds and Dec arcseconds between 2 epochs, and computes proper motion and extrapolates for a third epoch
216. mergebib -- Takes a .tex and .bbl file and puts the latter into the former, for submission to the ApJL word count tool
217. minimumMassSolarNebula -- computes mass in Msun for specified surface density, inner and outer radii using a 1/r^2 density profile
218. minimumSpanningTree -- Computes the minimum spanning tree of a graph
219. modifySpectrumInCube -- Stuffs a new spectrum of values into a spatial pixel of a CASA image cube
220. monteCarloAddition -- Computes the joint uncertainty of a sum of measurements with individual uncertainties
221. monteCarloRatio -- Computes the uncertainty of a measurement scaled by an uncertain scale factor
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222. nanmean -- Returns scipy.stats.nanmean if numpy is earlier than 1.81, otherwise returns np.nanmean
223. nanmedian -- Returns scipy.stats.nanmedian if numpy is earlier than 1.81, otherwise returns np.nanmedian
224. nearestSourceInFitsTable -- Finds the nearest source in a FITS table to a specified direction
225. nextPowerOfTwo -- Computes the next power of 2 greater than or equal to the specified integer
226. nonScanTimeRanges -- Returns a list of date/time ranges outside of the scans of a specified intent
227. northalign -- Uses the montage python wrapper to align a FITS image to north up
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228. offsetScanNumbers -- Adds a constant to the SCAN_NUMBER column of a measurement set
229. olnon -- Computes free-free spectral energy distribution from the models of Olnon 1975
230. oneEvent -- For a given population size, compute the sigma that gives just one event
231. outermosaic -- Computes the border points of a mosaic pointing pattern
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232. phaseScreenCorrupt -- Corrupts a measurement set using the sm.settrop method.
233. pipelineBandpassTimeSolint -- Searches CASA log for longest time solint on bandpass calibartor
234. pipelineBeamRadius -- Emulates the calculation in imageparams_base.py
235. pipelinePhasecalSolint -- Checks for solint specified gaincal as a value in 's'econds, rather than 'int' or 'inf'
236. pipelinePlottingTimes -- Computes time spent in making sky plots in hif_makeimages
237. pipelineSpwphaseupSpwmap -- finds the spwmap used by the pipeline in spwhpaseup
238. pipelineSpwBandwidths -- finds the bandwidths of the science spws of a pipeline run's MOUS
239. pipe337beforeAfter -- Makes before/after plots for the hifa_targetflag flags
240. planckIntensity -- Computes the intensity of the Planck function
241. plotAplpyLines -- Plots a list of line segments from an ASCII file onto an aplpy figure
242. plotAplpyPositionAngle -- Plots a line along a position angle on an aplpy FitsFigure
243. plotCalibratorImagePeaks -- Plots an SED of the image peaks of the per-spw calibrator continuum images
244. plotCompareFluxcsvs -- Plots age of spectral index vs. separationWindow, from several runs of compareFluxcsvs
245. plotCompareL80 -- Plots the results from compareL80list
246. plotFluxMaxAge -- Plots the SSR-generated file used by the OT in ICT-13764
247. plotHartRAO -- Plots maser spectra ascii files from HartRAO
248. plotHartRAODifference -- Plots the difference between two maser spectra ascii files from HartRAO
249. plotLinesOfCodeVsTime -- Plots the lines of code vs. cvs version number and vs. time
250. plotMaxHoldSpectrum -- Plots the maximum of a uv spectrum output by plotms text file tool
251. plotRegionSpectrum -- computes and plots the spectrum from the unmasked pixels in a CASA region file
252. plotRobustGrid -- Plots the results file from buildRobustWeightingGrid
253. plotSMAEngineeringData -- plots data files downloaded from http://sma1.sma.hawaii.edu/internal/plot/customplots.html
254. plotSpwsVsTime -- Plots the science spws that appear in scans vs. time (or scan ID)
255. plotTimePipelineImaging -- Makes histograms from a dictionary created by checkTimePipelineImaging
256. plotTLEazel -- plots a satellite azimuth, elevation file produce by SxP4Test
257. polarizationUncertainty -- computes polarization percentage and its uncertainty from I, Q, U flux densities and image rms
258. properMotion -- computes proper motion in mas/year and beams/year for a specified distance, velocity and antenna configuration
259. propertiesForIonizingPhotonRateDiazMiller -- determine interpolated ZAMS stellar properties for the specified value of Lyman continuum photon rate
260. propertiesForSpectralTypeHanson -- determine interpolated ZAMS stellar properties for the specified spectral type
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261. pruneMask -- Calls Tak's prune algorithm used by tclean autoboxing
262. radecListToOffsets -- Converts a list of sexagesimal RA/Dec values into relative coordinates in arcsec (relative to first position in the list)
263. regionSpectrum -- Computes the spectrum from a specified region of a CASA image
264. regionToEstimates -- Converts a CASA region file of positions to a imfit estimates file
265. relaxationTime -- Computes relaxation time of a stellar cluster
266. removeNaNs -- remove (or replace) the NaNs from an array
267. removeLastLineOfFile -- removes the final line of an ASCII file, or list of files
268. removeLines -- removes all lines of an ASCII file that contain a specified string (used for culling AQUA/QA0 bugs in flag command txt files)
269. replaceMaskedPixels -- replaces masked pixels in a CASA image with a specified value
270. replaceStringInFiles -- replaces a string with another string in a list of files
271. rotationPhase -- determines the rotational phase of an observation relative to a zero point in the past
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272. roundMeasurementToAsymmetricString -- converts a value and uncertainty to a latex string with different + and - error bars
273. roundMeasurementToAsymmetricScientificString -- converts a value and uncertainty to a latex string in scientific notation with different + and - error bars
274. roundMeasurementToScientificString -- converts a value and uncertainty to a latex string in scientific notation
275. roundMeasurementToString -- converts a value and uncertainty to a string
276. scaleFluxcsv -- Scales the flux densities in an ALMA pipeline's flux.csv file
277. scaleImage -- Scales the intensity in one or more rectangular boxes in a CASA image by a scale factor
278. scaleImageSize -- Takes a string like '100x60' and scales each number by a specified factor
279. scanTimeRanges -- Returns a list of date/time ranges for all the scans of a specified intent
280. shadowedArea -- Computes percentage of antenna area shadowed for a given linear overlap
281. shiftDecString -- Takes a sexagesimal format Dec Value and shifts it by a specified value of arcseconds
282. shiftRAString -- Takes a sexagesimal format RA value and shifts it by a specified value of arcseconds
283. shortenCasalog -- Removes all messages from CASA tasks (helpful when debugging non-tasks)
284. show_circles_intersecting -- Implements aplpy's show_circles but prevents drawing portions that overlap other circles.
285. sigmaEvent -- compute the probability of an N-sigma event
286. specfitPlot -- Plots the fit result from the CASA task specfit
287. spectralTypeFloatToStringTo -- converts 0.95 to 'O9.5' for use after interpolating tables
288. spectralTypeSternberg -- returns spectral type and luminosity for Q value for class V stars
289. spectralTypeStringToFloat -- converts 'O9.5' to 0.95 for use in interpolating tables
290. spectralTypeToTemperature -- uses Pecaut & Mamajek 2013 to convert spectral type to surface temperature
291. spectraOverlay -- Reads and plots a spectral profile ASCII file created by the CASA viewer
292. splitSedResults -- Split an sed_results file into N files to prepare it for Robitaille's fitter
293. stefanBoltzmannLuminosity -- convert radius, distance and temperature to luminosity
294. stefanBoltzmannRadius -- convert luminosity and temperature to radius
295. stefanBoltzmannTemperature -- convert luminosity and radius to temperature
296. stringToURL -- convert a text string to an encoded version suitable for use in a URL
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297. tauFromBrightness -- Inverts the equation Tb = T*(1-exp(-tau))
298. temperatureToSpectralType -- interpolates Table 5 of Pecaut & Mamajek 2013
299. timegaincalInterval -- Reads the bandpass/flux phase-only solint from the timegaincal weblog table
300. topoFreqToChannel -- Converts a list of topo frequencies to topo channels in a measurement set
301. topoFreqRangeListToChannel -- Converts a semicolon-delimit list of frequency ranges to topo channel ranges
302. truncatedJDToDatestring -- converts truncated JD to date string
303. tskyGridPlot -- makes a grid of plots of Tsky vs. frequency from a list of measurement sets and maxAltitudes
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304. uncertaintyOfSummedValues -- computes uncertainty of a sum of measurements
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305. velocityChannelWidth -- Returns the width of cube channels in velocity units
306. version -- returns the CVS version number of toddTools.py
307. visibleSky -- compute the fraction of the sky ever visible from a specified latitude and horizon limit
308. vislistFromFluxcsv -- Returns list of measurement sets contained a flux.csv file
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309. widthOfMaskArcsec -- Finds the width of the smallest central square that circumscribes a mask
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310. zams -- Computes luminosity and radius for a given stellar mass using Hosokawa's fits to Schaller et al. 1992
311. zamsMassFromLuminosity -- Computes empirical relation of Demircan and Kahraman 1991
312. zeeman -- fits Stokes I and V spectra for Zeeman effect and magnetic field

-- ToddHunter - 2014-08-13