[daip] VLA.GAINS

[Kristine Spekkens]

Hello Eric, 

 I found my problem - /home/space1/aips//TEXT/ is symbolically linked to a
disk that wasn't mounted on my machine, so mounting it allowed aips to
find the file. It therefore doesn't appear to be an installation problem.
 
 I am observing at L-band, at around 1400 MHz. Do the gains matter much 
in this part of the spectrum?

 Thank-you for your help,

Kristine

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Kristine Spekkens
Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy
Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
spekkens at astro.cornell.edu
http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~spekkens
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Kristine Spekkens writes:
>  > Hello, 
>  > 
>  >  I am in the process of reducing L-band spectral line data, taken in C and
>  > BC configs. My aips installation is 31DEC03.  When I load my raw data in
>  > with FILLM, it can't find the file VLA.GAINS:
>  > 
>  > FILLM1 10:45:35 Trying to access VLA antenna gains file...
>  > FILLM1 10:45:35 ZTXOP2: using translated file name =
>  > FILLM1 10:45:35 ZTXOP2: /home/space1/aips//TEXT/IONS/VLA.GAINS
>  > FILLM1 10:45:35 ZTXOP2: FILE TO BE READ DOES NOT EXIST
>  > FILLM1 10:45:35 Standard gains file not valid or failed!
>  > 
>  >  How do I get this file? Should I worry about this at all? 
> 
> This suggests some significant problems with your aips installation
> since this file should have been installed along with the
> documentation files, source list files, etc etc
> 
> If you can run a midnight job on 31DEC03 it should replace the missing
> file.  What frequency have you observed at?  The gains do not matter
> much at low frequencies.
> 
> ERic Greisen
> 

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Kristine Spekkens
Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy
Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
spekkens at astro.cornell.edu
http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~spekkens
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