[daip] How should I interpret this?

[Eric Greisen]

Johan van der Walt writes:
 > I have started the editing and calibration of the data of a run we had
 > on the VLA in June. 

      This does sound odd - can you give me the VLA obs code for this
run?  And a little more about which source etc?

 > 
 > I have followed the procedure in section 4.3.1 (initial editing) and
 > noted that for a specific calibrator the values are round about 800 -
 > 900 for about the first 40 seconds on the source. For the remaining 80
 > seconds on the source the values given by LISTR are between 80 and 90,
 > ie 10 times smaller than during the first 40 seconds. This applies to
 > all baselines. It also seems to occur only for one specific calibrator
 > source but not for everytime when it was observed.
 > 
 > Is this bad data? 
 > 

     The "fluxes" with no calibration should be roughly in 0.1 Jys
rather than Jys.  That should tell you whether the 800 or the 80 is
the more correct.


Eric