MDIFFFIT(1)

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🦋 mDiffFit — MDIFFFIT(1), the manual page but make it cute

okay bestie, quick vibe check: this is mDiffFit, section 1 of the manual, and it ships with Montage. that's the whole title situation. sit down, hydrate, let's go 💖

🌸 NAME

mDiffFit — Run mDiff and mFitplane. that's it. that's the name. two icons, one command ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS

mDiffFit [-d] [-n] [-b border] [-s statusfile] in1.fits in2.fits
out.fits hdr.template
lowkey note this exactly, okay? the square brackets mean optional. in1.fits, in2.fits, out.fits and hdr.template are not optional — they're the main characters here 💅

💫 DESCRIPTION

so here's the tea: mDiffFit runs mDiff immediately followed by mFitplane. and because it's an overachiever, it also checks the first one to decide whether it should even bother running the second. like, it's reading the room before it commits. icon behaviour, no cap 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -n — No-areas 🍓 that's the description, bestie, short and sweet, exactly as written.
also showing up in the synopsis: -d, -b border, and -s statusfile. this page does not spell out what those do, so i'm not gonna make anything up. what you see is what you get 🙈

💀 BUGS

ngl this one's important so i'm saying it with my whole chest:

this module has been used extensively but it has not been subject to the same rigorous testing that the core modules got. so before you go using these, the Montage folks advise you to contact them first — montage@ipac.caltech.edu — so they can verify the limitations of using them and any changes in the interfaces. fr fr, email before you deploy 😭

2001-2014 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

and now the part where you give credit, because we do not do plagiarism in this house 💜

if your research uses Montage, please include the following acknowledgement, and yes it's verbatim:

"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, the Montage distribution includes an adaptation of the MOPEX algorithm developed at the Spitzer Science Center. slay 🧚

okay that's the whole page, you ate it, periodt 💅

<cute>this was Montage 3.3, dated June 2010 — that's the version and the date, and now we're done, mwah 🎀</cute>

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