MDAGFiles(1)

💖 MDAGFiles(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to mDAGFiles from the Montage manual pages 🌸 this one's a whole little helper script and it's lowkey iconic. let's get into it ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

mDAGFiles — generates a zip archive stuffed with the input files that Pegasus needs, no cap 🗂️✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mDAGFiles survey object|location width height band suffix zipfile contact

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the vibe: mDAGFiles connects to a remote service and asks it (politely, obviously) to generate a zip archive for you. and inside that zip? literally all the input files Pegasus needs to schedule the Montage workflow on the Grid. it's giving ✨prepared✨

and the zip archive contains:

• the abstract workflow
• the output mosaic template header file
• the image tables for the raw images
• the image tables for the projected images
• the image tables for the background rectified images

periodt. that's the whole bag 🫶

😭 BUGS 😭

bestie, listen. this module has been used extensively but it has not been subject to the same rigorous testing that the core modules have been subjected to. so like… it's not built different in the way you want it to be.

we advise users to contact Montage at montage@ipac.caltech.edu before employing them, to verify limitations in their use and changes in the interfaces. do that first, fr fr 🙈

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

2001-2014 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

if your research uses Montage, please include the following acknowledgement (this is the important part, don't skip it 💖):

"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."

The Montage distribution includes an adaptation of the MOPEX algorithm developed at the Spitzer Science Center. 🌈⭐

and that's the page bestie!! 🦋💜 this was Montage 3.3, dated June 2010, and yes we're still out here reading MDAGFiles(1) in the year of our lord. slay 💅✨