[daip] VLA+Pt Calibration Problem

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Tue Jul 12 13:13:09 EDT 2005


Emma Rigby writes:

 > I'm trying to calibrate some data that were observed with the VLA in the
 > VLA+Pt configuration (in L band). The pietown antenna appears to be
 > present in the SN tables I create and also in the new CL table made by
 > clcal. However, when I examine the calibrated data with uvplt or imagr the
 > pietown antenna is ignored (i.e. instead of a uvrange of 0-350 I'm only
 > getting 0-~200).  Do you have idea what I'm doing wrong? Apologies if I've
 > sent this to the wrong person.
 > 

What tools are you using to look at the data?  I always recommend
PRTUV initially (with DOCRT 1) since it gets the calibration questions
out of the way.  Then UVPRT with DOCAL false and then with DOCAL=2.

Pie Town is antenna 29.

Eric Greisen




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