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FITLD DOWEIGHT seems to affect visibility amplitudes as well as weights<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Ticket ID: 12819</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">URL: <a href="https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/12819">https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/12819</a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Name: Michael Bietenholz</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Email address: <a href="mailto:mbieten@yorku.ca">mbieten@yorku.ca</a></div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Creator: User</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Department: AIPS Data Reduction</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Type: Issue</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Status: Open</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Priority: Default</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">SLA: NRAO E2E</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Template group: Default</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Created: 18 October 2018 11:27 AM</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Updated: 19 October 2018 05:53 AM</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Reply due: 23 October 2018 05:53 AM (4d 0h 0m)</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Resolution due: 15 July 2021 12:00 AM (999d 18h 7m)</div>
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Hi Eric:<br />
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Thanks as ever for the quick fix. It will be good<br />
to have weights that are something like 1/sigma**2.<br />
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Just to make sure I understand: is it true that the DOWEIGHT=1 will<br />
change the weights only by a global (to a particular data-set)<br />
scale-factor (int_time*bw), so that the relative weights (ie any ratio<br />
w_i/w_j) is independent of DOWEIGHT (provided bw or int_time doesn't<br />
change within a data-set, which might happend with more than<br />
one FREQID)?<br />
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thanks, michael<br />
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Eric Greisen wrote:<br />
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> Yes. I attempted to make the VLBI weights more meaningful<br />
> but did not understand all the ramifications. Therefore the<br />
> visibilities got divided by the very much larger new weights.<br />
> I have now fixed it to set the weights only after scaling the<br />
> visibilities. There is still one mystery that I do not understand<br />
> but I have sent an e-mail to Walter Brisken for clarification. I<br />
> have put the correction back so tomorrow's MNJ should<br />
> provide improved performance (or DOWEIGHT=-1 should<br />
> now give the old performance).<br />
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> Eric Greisen<br />
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