The main window

The main window with its areas, described in the table below.

The main window consists of a toolbar, six panels arranged in two rows and a status bar:

Area	Content
Profile and database	Selects, loads and saves a processing profile, and sets the time window of a database load. See Toolbar.
Load options	What a database load fetches and keeps: picks, origins, preferred origins and their picks, aggregation after loading. See Toolbar.
Picks	The loaded picks as a table, as a histogram over time and as array plots (Map, Beams, Slow/Baz, Baz/time). See Picks panel.
Origins	The origins with their quality metrics, the cumulative count and the Wadati diagram. The selected origin is the active origin. See Origins panel.
Map	Map, hexagon density map and 3D view. See Map panel.
Pick processing	Tools that work on picks: nucleation and aggregation. See Nucleation and Pick aggregation and filtering.
Origin processing	Tools that work on origins: relocation, association, DD relocation, aggregation, swarm recovery and quality control. See Refining origins and Quality control.
Active origin	Arrivals and diagnostic plots of the active origin: distance, azimuth and back-azimuth residuals, travel time, move-out and polar plot. See Active origin panel.
Status bar	A pending relocation result (until it is accepted or reset) on the left; the log state and license on the right.

Every control has a tooltip. Hover over a control to see what it does. Hovering a station on the map or a pick marker in a plot shows the station name, phase and pick time.

View → Panels shows or hides panels, and View → Home (reset layout) restores the default arrangement. The layout is saved when catalyst closes. View → Application Log shows the log messages.

Toolbar

Profile

Profile selects a processing profile. Load applies it, Save as… saves the current settings to a profile file.

Database

The database part of the toolbar loads picks and origins for a time window. Set the start and end time and press Load. The arrow buttons move the window back or forward by its own length and load it, for working through a long period in steps.

Option	Description
picks	Load all picks in the window.
origins	Load all origins in the window, including alternative solutions.
pref. origins	Load only the preferred origin of each event.
pref. picks	Load only the picks associated with those preferred origins.
aggregate	Aggregate the picks automatically after loading.
keep picks	Add the picks to those already loaded instead of replacing them.
keep origins	Add the origins to those already loaded instead of replacing them.

The database part is only enabled when catalyst is connected to a database.

File menu

Entry	Description
Open…	Load picks and origins from a SeisComP XML file.
Save, Save As…	Save the working set to a SeisComP XML file.
Save Selection As…	Save only the selected origins and their picks.
Send Selection to Messaging	Send the updated origins to the messaging system, see Send or save the results.
Quit	Close catalyst.

Selecting origins

• Click a row in the origin table to make it the active origin.

• Shift+click and Ctrl+click select several origins; Ctrl+A selects all visible origins.

• Clicking a cell on the Hexmap selects the origins in that cell.

• Clicking a pick on the map selects the origins it belongs to.

Many tools work on the selected origins, or on all visible origins when nothing is selected. Their buttons show which, for example “Smart-locate 12” or “Smart-locate all (340)”.