This keyword specifies the density level for plotting the first (dotted) contour line.
This contour will be plotted at 
 + f
(
), where 
 is the mean density of the section that is being plotted, and 
(
) the corresponding rms deviation (again, not of the whole map but only
of given section). To the best of my knowledge,  GraphEnt will allow you to give f a negative
value, thus allowing you to start contouring from below the mean density level (although I
bet that you could crash either  GraphEnt or PGPLOT by giving random values to this 
parameter). Default is 0.0 (ie, first contour at the mean density).