3.2 Create Sources

With the celestial coordinates of your sources read into the IDL vectors ra and dec, create AE source directories. The required keyword POSITION_TYPE should be a string (or string vector) describing the method used to estimate the source position.

    ; Load the programs in ae_recipe.pro
    .run ae_recipe
    
    ; Create sources.
    ae_source_manager, /ADD, RA=ra, DEC=dec, POSITION_TYPE='wavdetect'
	
    ; Sort the catalog by RA; label sources by their sequence number.
    ae_source_manager, /SORT_RA
    ae_source_manager, /SET_LABEL_AS_SEQUENCE

The ae_source_manager tool maintains a list of the sources in the ASCII file all.srclist. This tool can be used later to add, re-position, or remove sources if necessary (§7.2.2).