MCONCATFIT(1)

💖 mConcatFit — the MCONCATFIT(1) page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is lowkey niche but highkey important if you're living that Grid life 🌈

✨ NAME ✨

mConcatFit — merge multiple plane fit parameter files into one single file 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mConcatFit [-d] [-s statusfile] statfiles.tbl fits.tbl statdir

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically? You're taking a whole bunch of plane fit parameter files (the ones that come out of mFitplane, iykyk) and smooshing them all together into one file. One file. Singular. Iconic behaviour, fr fr. 💅

Not me needing to say this, but: this module is ONLY needed in a Grid environment. That's the specific situation where your mFitplane jobs might be running in parallel on computers that do not share a file system 😭 (yes, really, they can't even see each other's files, it's giving long-distance relationship).

In that case, the fit parameters have to be merged into one file before mBgModel can be called. No merge, no mBgModel. Periodt. ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

Okay so real talk, no cap: this module has been used extensively — like, a lot — but it has not been subject to the same rigorous testing that the core modules have been subjected to. 🙈

So we advise users to contact Montage (montage@ipac.caltech.edu) before employing them, to verify limitations in their use and changes in the interfaces. Yes, email first. It's giving "text before you call", and honestly? Respect. 🎀

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

2001-2014 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

If your research uses Montage, please include the following acknowledgement — and I mean copy it properly, bestie, it's the least we can do for the girlies who funded this:

"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."

Also, fun fact that lives here in this section: the Montage distribution includes an adaptation of the MOPEX algorithm developed at the Spitzer Science Center. ⭐ Slay.

mwah 💖 this was Montage version 3.3, dated June 2010 — thanks for reading my little manual rant, you ate that, and I'm obsessed with you 🫶✨