[daip] questions on vla data analysis

[Yoshiaki Hagiwara]

I am working on VLA spectral line data with AIPS, while running BPASS
there 
appeared messages like below.


 BPASS1: LINE & CHANNEL 0 FILES HAVE DIFFERENT NO. VIS. POINTS
 BPASS1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes


I typed imh and found that #visibility is different between CH.0 and
LINE data. The difference of the total number is only 1. For this
reason, there might exist something problematic with my data. Could you
answer this question for me? At least I wish to know how to 
run BPASS, regardless of this #visibility problem. Thank you.




AIPS 1: Image=MULTI     (UV)         Filename=NGC6240     .CH 0  .   1
AIPS 1: Telescope=VLA                Receiver=VLA
AIPS 1: Observer=AH759               User #= 1018
AIPS 1: Observ. date=01-OCT-2001     Map date=06-NOV-2001
AIPS 1: # visibilities    184471     Sort order  TB
AIPS 1: Rand axes: UU-L-SIN  VV-L-SIN  WW-L-SIN  BASELINE  TIME1
AIPS 1:            SOURCE  FREQSEL  WEIGHT  SCALE
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: Type    Pixels   Coord value     at Pixel     Coord incr   Rotat
AIPS 1: COMPLEX      1   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00     .00
AIPS 1: FREQ         1   2.1672570E+10       1.00  4.6875000E+06     .00
AIPS 1: STOKES       1  -1.0000000E+00       1.00 -1.0000000E+00     .00
AIPS 1: IF           1   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00     .00
AIPS 1: RA           1    00 00 0 .000       1.00       3600.000     .00
AIPS 1: DEC          1    00 00 0 .000       1.00       3600.000     .00
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------


AIPS 1: Image=MULTI     (UV)         Filename=NGC6240     .LINE  .   1
AIPS 1: Telescope=VLA                Receiver=VLA
AIPS 1: Observer=AH759               User #= 1018
AIPS 1: Observ. date=01-OCT-2001     Map date=06-NOV-2001
AIPS 1: # visibilities    184472     Sort order  TB
AIPS 1: Rand axes: UU-L-SIN  VV-L-SIN  WW-L-SIN  BASELINE  TIME1
AIPS 1:            SOURCE  FREQSEL  WEIGHT  SCALE
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: Type    Pixels   Coord value     at Pixel     Coord incr   Rotat
AIPS 1: COMPLEX      1   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00     .00
AIPS 1: FREQ       127   2.1672570E+10      64.00  4.8828125E+04     .00
AIPS 1: STOKES       1  -1.0000000E+00       1.00 -1.0000000E+00     .00
AIPS 1: IF           1   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00     .00
AIPS 1: RA           1    00 00 0 .000       1.00       3600.000     .00
AIPS 1: DEC          1    00 00 0 .000       1.00       3600.000     .00
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------



cheers,

-- 
Yoshiaki Hagiwara
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at 
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie 
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