[daip] Re: APCAL problem
Eric Greisen
egreisen at cv3.cv.nrao.edu
Thu Jun 13 17:20:36 EDT 2002
Lisa Winter writes:
Please use daip at nrao.edu - I was on vacation and so you did not
get the immediate answer you would have gotten.
>
> Does this from APCAL ring a bell ? Is it something we overlooked
> such as sort order, etc.?
>
> Bob Phillips
> Lisa Winter
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> reber.> APCAL1: Task APCAL (release of 31DEC02) begins
> reber.> APCAL1: GETGC: PARAMETER MAXVAL TOO SMALL: CONTACT AIPS ADMIN
> reber.> APCAL1: GCVAL: ERROR 3 LOADING GC TABLE
> reber.> APCAL1: AMPCAL: NO GAIN FOR ANT: 1 POL: 1 IF: 1
> reber.> APCAL1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
> reber.> APCAL1: reber 31DEC02 TST: Cpu= 0.1 Real= 1
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This means that you did not run the mergecal part off the process.
See the AIPS CookBook for more information - after FITLD the tables
have to have a merge operation done to get rid of duplicate entries
before running APCAL.
Eric Greisen
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> The task APCAL was run with settings
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> AIPS 1: APCAL Task to generate an amplitude calibration SN table
> AIPS 1: Adverbs Values Comments
> AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 1: INNAME 'EPOCH3 ' Input UV file name (name)
> AIPS 1: INCLASS 'UVDATA' Input UV file name (class)
> AIPS 1: INSEQ 1 Input UV file name (seq. #)
> AIPS 1: INDISK 0 Input UV file disk unit #
> AIPS 1:
> AIPS 1: ANTENNAS -1 *rest 0 Antennas to calibrate
> AIPS 1: SUBARRAY 1 Subarray 0=> 1
> AIPS 1: STOKES ' ' Stokes type ('R','L',' ')
> AIPS 1: BIF 1 Start IF number
> AIPS 1: EIF 4 End IF number
> AIPS 1: FREQID -1 Freq. ID to calibrate
> AIPS 1: SOURCES *all ' ' Sources to calibrate
> AIPS 1: TIMERANG *all 0 Time range to calibrate
> AIPS 1:
> AIPS 1: TYVER 2 TY table version number.
> AIPS 1: GCVER 2 GC table version number.
> AIPS 1: SNVER 0 Output SN table version.
> AIPS 1: 0 => highest unique
> AIPS 1: OPCODE ' ' Calibration opcode:
> AIPS 1: ' ' => no opacity corr.
> AIPS 1: 'GRID','OPAC' => opacity
> AIPS 1: APARM *all 0 Calibration parameters:
> AIPS 1: (1) => B factor (def. 1.0)
> AIPS 1: Opacity parameters:
> AIPS 1: (2) => ZA limit (deg)
> AIPS 1: (3) 1 => use spillover
> AIPS 1: correction
> AIPS 1: (4) 1 => use all FQ in
> AIPS 1: opac. soln.
> AIPS 1: (5) Limit to sec(z) plotted
> AIPS 1: SOLINT 1 Solution interval (min)
> AIPS 1: 0 => use all data
> AIPS 1: INFILE *all ' ' Text file with weather info.
> AIPS 1: TREC *all 0 Receiver temperatures (K);
> AIPS 1: in (R,L) pairs.
> AIPS 1: TAU0 *all 0 Zenith opacities (per ant.)
> AIPS 1: DOFIT *all 0 Fit type (per ant.)
> AIPS 1: 0 => apply Trec only
> AIPS 1: 1 => solve for Trec; then
> AIPS 1: apply
> AIPS 1: PRTLEV 0 Print level
> AIPS 1: DOTV -1 TV selection (<0 => PL file)
> AIPS 1: LTYPE -1 Plot labelling
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> and the file in question has
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> AIPS 1: Image=MULTI (UV) Filename=EPOCH3 .UVDATA. 1
> AIPS 1: Telescope=VLBA Receiver=VLBA
> AIPS 1: Observer=BP094 User #= 3
> AIPS 1: Observ. date=23-MAR-2002 Map date=04-JUN-2002
> AIPS 1: # visibilities 695640 Sort order TB
> AIPS 1: Rand axes: UU-L-SIN VV-L-SIN WW-L-SIN TIME1 BASELINE
> AIPS 1: SOURCE FREQSEL INTTIM GATEID CORR-ID WEIGHT
> AIPS 1: 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 0.00
> AIPS 1: STOKES 1 -1.0000000E+00 1.00 -1.0000000E+00 0.00
> AIPS 1: FREQ 256 4.2813100E+10 1.00 3.1250000E+04 0.00
> AIPS 1: IF 4 1.0000000E+00 1.00 1.0000000E+00 0.00
> AIPS 1: RA 1 00 00 00.000 1.00 0.000000 0.00
> AIPS 1: DEC 1 00 00 00.000 1.00 0.000000 0.00
> AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 1: Coordinate equinox 2000.00
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type HI is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type CL is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type AT is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type IM is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type CT is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type MC is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type SN is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type OB is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type GC is 2
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type TY is 2
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type WX is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type PC is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type FQ is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type AN is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type SU is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type CQ is 1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type FG is 1
> AIPS 1: Keyword = 'OLDRFQ ' value = 4.31145700E+10
> AIPS 1: Keyword = 'SUBARRAY' value = 1
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