<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Help Explaining Phase Calibrator Plots<br />
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Ticket ID: 16728</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Name: Gregory Walsh</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Email address: <a href="mailto:gwalsh4758@gmail.com">gwalsh4758@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): -- Unassigned --</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: 06 August 2020 06:49 PM</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Updated: 13 August 2020 08:12 PM</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Reply due: 17 August 2020 08:12 PM (4d 0h 0m)</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Resolution due: 03 May 2023 12:00 AM (992d 3h 47m)</div>
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Hi Eric,<br />
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Sorry for taking a while to respond. Had some computer issues that I <br />
needed to fix over the past few days.<br />
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The real vs. imaginary plots are not what I expected to see; they form a <br />
rectangle which is centered <0 for the real axis (which seems good), and <br />
at 0 for the imaginary (again, seems good). The shape is kind of <br />
throwing me for a loop.<br />
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For the most part the diagnostics I've looked at, such as amplitude vs. <br />
uv distance, don't look unreasonable. I examine the gain phase solutions <br />
for each phase calibrator when I calibrate the data in AIPS and, besides <br />
very sparsely, the phase solutions are flat and don't seem to be <br />
clustered around +/- 45, 135. Overall, I don't think this is a serious <br />
issue (we're still getting results) but it is very strange.<br />
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On your point about the individual channels, pretty much every single <br />
phase calibrator (2 per target) for every observation (about 130) in <br />
each frequency band (C-band and S/X dichroic receiver) looks like this <br />
when I examine the phase vs. amplitude plot. This issue seems too <br />
pervasive and consistent to just be from individual channel noise <br />
scattering, though I do agree this would cause an issue.<br />
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If it is from scattering in individual channels, automated flagging <br />
routines should remove these spurious data points, correct? Do you think <br />
re-calibrating the data after flagging these points would improve the <br />
issue? It could be that I am being led astray in my diagnostics by the <br />
fact that these points have already been removed.<br />
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Thank you,<br />
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Greg<br />
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