<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Eric Greisen updated #15791<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Status: Closed (was: Open)</div>
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problems with 31DEC19 AIPS version<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Ticket ID: 15791</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Name: Cristina Romero-Canizales</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Email address: <a href="mailto:cristina.rocc@gmail.com">cristina.rocc@gmail.com</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: Closed</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Priority: Default</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Template group: Default</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Created: 26 February 2020 02:16 AM</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Updated: 28 February 2020 02:48 PM</div>
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<p>15461. February 28, 2020 UVFIX Eric<br />The differential aberration correction requires the comparison<br />of the apparent position of the source to the apparent position<br />of a point 10 asec North. Since we treat the apparent position<br />as fixed during the run (it actually isn't), we need to do this<br />comparison only once at the same time that we compute the<br />source apparent position. In 31DEC18 and previous, this was<br />done but only for the first source (with the result used for<br />all sources). In 31DEC19 and 31DEC20, the comparison was<br />recomputed every time a source changed which put a time change<br />in the offset position but not the reference position. This<br />made the correction a (false) function of time. Furthermore,<br />when the input file was in B1950, the EPOCH variable did not<br />stay at 2000 for this comparison. This could make the aberation<br />correction a factor of ~200 rather than 0.99992! All these15461. February 28, 2020 UVFIX Eric<br />The differential aberration correction requires the comparison<br />of the apparent position of the source to the apparent position<br />of a point 10 asec North. Since we treat the apparent position<br />as fixed during the run (it actually isn't), we need to do this<br />comparison only once at the same time that we compute the<br />source apparent position. In 31DEC18 and previous, this was<br />done but only for the first source (with the result used for<br />all sources). In 31DEC19 and 31DEC20, the comparison was<br />recomputed every time a source changed which put a time change<br />in the offset position but not the reference position. This<br />made the correction a (false) function of time. Furthermore,<br />when the input file was in B1950, the EPOCH variable did not<br />stay at 2000 for this comparison. This could make the aberation<br />correction a factor of ~200 rather than 0.99992! All these<br />issues have been corrected with the aberation correction now<br />a function of source but not time (except for planets).<br />Moved to 31DEC19 this date.</p>
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<p>I don't know what your problem with calibration might be. I made a mistake in running CLCAL that failed to calibrate 3C286 and the NGC source. Fixing this I notice that the default phase type of phase cal is not very good. A Self cal with a point model on the 3 calibrators made them very much better. Even the NGC source got better with a solint of 1 minute. I used 22 sec on the cals.</p>
<p>Eric<br /><br />issues have been corrected with the aberation correction now<br />a function of source but not time (except for planets).<br />Moved to 31DEC19 this date.</p>
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