[daip] CLCAL's opcode 'CALP'

Jim Ulvestad julvesta at aoc.nrao.edu
Mon Jul 23 10:54:45 EDT 2001


Hi Teddy,

I suspect antenna -11 and 'CALP' interacted to kill off antenna 11.
Try it again without setting antenna -11,0 (set antennas=0).  If 
that still fails, let us know.

jim

Teddy Cheung wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on a VLBA+Y1 expt and am applying the pulse-cal information
> for the VLBA...I will do the manual phase cal for Y1 soon.
> 
> I ran PCCOR successfully, giving me SN3. I tried to apply SN3 to my latest
> CL table (4) to create CL 5 with CLCAL, opcode 'CALP', antenna -11,0. I
> hoped that this would pass antenna 11 (Y1) uncalibrated but I looked at the
> new CL table (5) with Possm and there is no data for Y1. What do you think
> is going on?
> 
> Appended is a copy of the parameters I used.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Teddy
> 
> AIPS 2: CLCAL     Task to manage SN and CL calibration tables
> AIPS 2: Adverbs         Values            Comments
> AIPS 2: ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 2: INNAME     'BR57AX      '          Input UV file name (name)
> AIPS 2: INCLASS    'UVCOP '                Input UV file name (class)
> AIPS 2: INSEQ         1                    Input UV file name (seq. #)
> AIPS 2: INDISK        1                    Input UV file disk unit #
> AIPS 2: SOURCES    *all ' '                Source list to calibrate
> AIPS 2: SOUCODE    '    '                  Source "Cal codes"
> AIPS 2: CALSOUR    *all ' '                Cal sources for calibration
> AIPS 2: QUAL         -1                    Source qualifier -1=>all
> AIPS 2: CALCODE    '    '                  Calibrator code '    '=>all
> AIPS 2: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time range to calibrate
> AIPS 2: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray, 0=>all,
> AIPS 2: ANTENNAS    -11        *rest 0     Antennas selected, 0=> all
> AIPS 2: SELBAND      -1                    Bandwidth to select (kHz)
> AIPS 2: SELFREQ      -1                    Frequency to select (MHz)
> AIPS 2: FREQID        1                    Freq. ID to select.
> AIPS 2: OPCODE     'CALP'                  Operation 'MERG','CALI',
> AIPS 2:                                    'SMOO','CALP'; ' ' => 'CALI'
> AIPS 2: INTERPOL   '    '                  Interpolation function,
> AIPS 2: ** press RETURN for more, enter Q or next line to quit print **
> #
> AIPS 2:                                    choices are:
> AIPS 2:                                    '2PT','SIMP','AMBG','CUBE',
> AIPS 2:                                    'SELF','POLY','MWF','BOX'
> AIPS 2:                                    see HELP for more details.
> AIPS 2: INTPARM    *all 0                  Interpolation parameters
> AIPS 2: CUTOFF        0                    Interpolation limit in
> AIPS 2:                                    time (min); 0=> no limit.
> AIPS 2: SMOTYPE    '    '                  Data to smooth
> AIPS 2: SNVER         3                    Input SN table, 0=>all.
> AIPS 2: GAINVER       4                    Input Cal table 0=>1
> AIPS 2: GAINUSE       5                    Output CAL table 0=>2
> AIPS 2: REFANT        9                    Reference antenna 0=>pick.
> AIPS 2: BADDISK    *all 0                  Disks to avoid for scratch



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