[daip] Re: UF AIPS catalog problem

[Eric Greisen]

Veera Boonyasait writes:
 > Good day, Dr. Greisen,
 > 
 >  Acting basically as the AIPS manager here at the department, I have been 
 > trying to delete the unnecessary UV and image files from past students. 
 > However, I have seem to run into a difficulty that I cannot solve. 
 > 
 > There seem to be some files that show up at the ls -l command but do not 
 > appear with the UCAT or MCAT command within AIPS. I have tried to make a 
 > new catalog for the files in their proper directory/data disk with the 
 > directions you gave me a few years ago: 
 > 
 > >From Eric Greisen:
 > 
 > > Remove  the CAD files on disk 5 and 6 that should not be there.
 > > 
 > > Outside of AIPS
 > > 
 > > cd $AIPS_ROOT
 > > source LOGIN.CSH   (if C shell or tcsh)
 > > . LOGIN.SH         (if bash - not the dot or period)
 > > 
 > > $CDTST
 > > 
 > > RUN RECAT
 > > 
 > > and answer the questions.  This recreates CA files by disk and user
 > > number based on the files that are there (the CB header files
 > > actually).
 > 
 > Unfortunately this method does not seem to work. MCAT and UCAT do not 
 > show the files (AIPS thinks the directory is empty). I tried this on both 
 > the linux and unix boxes we have that use AIPS. Is there another way for 
 > us to recover the files? 
 > 
 > Here are the disks that house the AIPS data:
 > 
 > START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
 >   (Using UFASTRO2-specific default file /depot/aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST)
 >    Disk 1 (1) is /depot/aips/DATA/JANSKY_1
 >    Disk 2 (2) is /depot/aips/DATA/SATURN_5
 >    Disk 3 (3) is /depot/aips/DATA/JANSKY_3
 >    Disk 4 (4) is /depot/aips/DATA/SATURN_2
 >    Disk 5 (5) is /depot/aips/DATA/EUROPA_1
 >    Disk 6 (6) is /depot/aips/DATA/HEWISH_1
 > 
 > The data we would like to recover are in Disk 5 (EUROPA_1). The results of 
 > using MCAT and UCAT for the disk:
 > 
 > >indi 5; mc; uc
 > AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  5
 > AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last access      Stat
 > AIPS 1: Catalog on disk  5
 > AIPS 1:  Cat Usid Mapname      Class   Seq  Pt     Last access      Stat
 > 
 > But here are some of the files that exist and show up only outside 
 > of AIPS:
 > 
 > clam[DATA/EUROPA_1] ls -l | grep warner

    Try ls -l *01Q* - what we have below are some unrelated files all
of which have no header files.  RECAT uses the files named
   CBDccc001.uuu;
to build a new catalog.  If the is no CB file for UVD039001.01Q; for
example then there are no data that aips can use.  I do not see the
essential AN (antenna) files, etc that would normally accompany a UV
file.  Perhap you left these out - or the grep warner did - but
otherwise I see little to recover here.

Eric Greisen

 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   students   28672 May  5  2000 HID06B001.01Q;
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   students   28672 May  5  2000 HID06C001.01Q;
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   students   44032 Aug 28  2000 HID06D001.01Q;
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   students   28672 May  8  2000 HID06M001.01Q;
 > ....
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   students 130023424 Apr 12  2000 MAD03B001.01Q;
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   students 32505856 Apr 12  2000 MAD03C001.01Q;
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   students 1046528 Apr 24  2000 MAD03D001.01Q;
 > ...
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   aips     21443584 Oct 28  1999 UVD002001.01Q;
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   aips     21443584 Apr 12  2000 UVD039001.01Q;
 > -rw-rw-r--   1 warner   aips        5120 Apr 12  2000 UVD03A001.01Q;
 > 
 > What I really want to recover the most (and if only) are the UVD files.
 > But as I stated earlier, they are not being recognized by AIPS or the
 > RUN RECAT command. 
 > 
 > Could you give me some suggestions/advices? Thank you!
 > 
 > 
 > Sincerely,
 > 
 > Veera Boonyasait
 > UF * Astronomy     
 > 207 Bryant Space Science Centre           
 > (352) 392-2052 x 210