[daip] fillm problem

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Thu Apr 8 13:51:12 EDT 2004


Data Analysts writes:
 > 
 >   we ran into an odd FILLM problem when loading AC713 15mar04 data.  When
 > loading with no time range AIPS reports finding data on both the
 > calibrator and the source, but no calibrator data appear in LISTR/SCAN
 > (even if one runs INDXR later).  If one sets a time range to start loading
 > data a few minutes into the file (at midnight...), the resulting data set is
 > fine.  There were odd things going on at the VLA (ANTSOL crashed, timing
 > problems, etc. etc. -- check Pat Van Buskirk for details) so this sort of
 > strange behavior is perhaps not surprising.
 > 
 >   Given all this weirdness it's not clear whether you want to consider this
 > a FILLM bug or a fluke.  I've appended the inputs to FILLM and the LISTR
 > output in case you do want to track this down.  The data are available on
 > agave's ftp site, called AC713* (two files).  Please let Meri know if you
 > decided *NOT* to go after this, as she will then want to delete those files.
 > 
 >   Cheers,
 > 
 >           Michael (analyst for a day???)
 > 
 > Evil FILLM -- change timerange to 1 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 to get good data out
 > 
 >  
 > Source summary
 > Velocity type = 'LSR     '    Definition = 'RADIO   '
 >  
 >   ID Source           Qual  Calcode RA(2000.0)     Dec(2000.0)  No. vis
 >    1 0555+398        : 0000   A     05:55:30.8056  39:48:49.165  286259
 >    1 A5142           : 0000         05:30:48.0256  33:47:54.400  286259
 >    3 0319+415        : 0000   B     03:19:48.1601  41:30:42.103   53192
 > 

It did not check the source list when there was no data yet even
though there was already a source table with an entry.  This then gave
2 sources #1.  Fixed to check source table if it has entries.

Fix arrives tomorrow with the MNJ.

Eric Greisen




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