[daip] UVFLG

Leonia Kogan lkogan at aoc.nrao.edu
Thu Oct 6 19:01:19 EDT 2005


Jim,

I think the problem is small/capital leters.

Type REASON = ' System idle  without the 'sign at the end of the line
Then the reason will appear with the right sequence of small/capital 
leter and UVFLG will work (I hope)

Leonia
Jim Ulvestad wrote:

> I've gone ahead and changed the FG table by cheating and using TABED.
> The original flag table that I can't change is FG 1 in the following 
> data set.
> Note that the reason that shows up in the flag table is System idle, 
> not all
> upper case. I have tried running UVFLG with the mixed upper and lower
> case and with all lower case.
>
> The rows I tried to change in the FG table are rows 352, 393, 745, 
> 837, and 1178.
> (In FG 2, note that PFLAG is 0000 and not 1111 for these rows, because
> I changed them using TABED.)
>
> Flag table 1 can be found at /DATA/COYOTE_1/FITS/BU30A.FGTABLE.
>
> AIPS 1: Image=MULTI     (UV)         Filename=BU030A      .FXPOL .   1
> AIPS 1: Telescope=VLBA               Receiver=VLBA
> AIPS 1: Observer=BU030               User #=  145
> AIPS 1: Observ. date=26-FEB-2005     Map date=06-SEP-2005
> AIPS 1: # visibilities    918247     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       2  -1.0000000E+00       1.00 -1.0000000E+00    0.00
> AIPS 1: FREQ        32   4.9714900E+09       0.56  2.5000000E+05    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 CL is   8
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type NX 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 OB is   1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type GC is   1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type WX is   1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type TY 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   3
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type HI is   1
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type SN is   6
> AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type PL is   6
> AIPS 1: Keyword = 'OLDRFQ  '  value =  4.97149000D+09
> AIPS 1: Keyword = 'SUBARRAY'  value =            1
>
> AIPS 1: UVFLG:  Task to Flag selected UV data on disk.
> AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
> AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 1: INNAME     'BU030A      '          UV data (name).
> AIPS 1: INCLASS    'FXPOL '                UV data (class).
> AIPS 1: INSEQ         1                    UV data (seq. #).  0 => high
> AIPS 1: INDISK        2                    Disk unit #.  0 => any
> AIPS 1: INFILE     *all ' '                Text file name.
> AIPS 1: SOURCES    *all ' '                Sources selected/deselected
> AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray number 0=>all.
> AIPS 1: SELBAND      -1                    Bandwidth to flag (kHz)
> AIPS 1: SELFREQ      -1                    Frequency to flag (MHz)
> AIPS 1: FREQID       -1                    Freq. ID to flag. -1=>all.
> AIPS 1:                                    0=> first Freq. ID.
> AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time: start day,hr,min,sec
> AIPS 1:                                          stop day,hr,min,sec.
> AIPS 1: BCHAN         0                    First frequency channel
> AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Last channel 0=>all
> AIPS 1: BIF           0                    First IF 0=>1
> AIPS 1: EIF           0                    Last IF 0=>all
> AIPS 1: ANTENNAS     12        *rest 0     Antennas
> AIPS 1: BASELINE   *all 0                  Baselines with ANTENNAS
> AIPS 1: STOKES     '    '                  Stokes' parameters
> AIPS 1: FLAGVER       1                    Flag table version number
> AIPS 1:                                       Used w single-source too
> AIPS 1: APARM      *all 0                  Clip on ampl. and weight
> AIPS 1:                                    (single source data only)
> AIPS 1:                                    1:lower limit of amplitude
> AIPS 1:                                    2:upper limit of amplitude
> AIPS 1:                                      0 => use defaults
> AIPS 1:                                      sign is significant!
> AIPS 1:                                    3:limit of weight
> AIPS 1:                                    The data with ampl. outside
> AIPS 1:                                    of a given range or  weight
> AIPS 1:                                    less the given value are
> AIPS 1:                                    flagged (unflagged)
> AIPS 1:                                         Elevation flagging
> AIPS 1:                                    4:elevation lower cutoff deg
> AIPS 1:                                    5:elevation upper cutoff deg
> AIPS 1:                                    6:Factor of suppression of
> AIPS 1:                                      spurious fringes caused by
> AIPS 1:                                      pulse cal when fringe
> AIPS 1:                                      rate close to zero.
> AIPS 1:                                      It must be >1
> AIPS 1:                                      0 => do not flag due to
> AIPS 1:                                        this reason
> AIPS 1:                                    7:>0 => Print source, time,
> AIPS 1:                                       baseline,  U,V of expected
> AIPS 1:                                       zero fringe rate (U=0)
> AIPS 1:                                      0 => do not print
> AIPS 1:                                    APARM=0 => flagging(unflag.)
> AIPS 1:                                    does not depend on APARM
> AIPS 1: OPCODE     'REAS'                  'FLAG','UFLG' or 'REAS'
> AIPS 1: REASON     'System idle                 Reason (24 char.)
> AIPS 1:              '
> AIPS 1: BDROP         0                     First vis. no. to flag
> AIPS 1:                                     (not with flag tables)
> AIPS 1: EDROP         0                     Last  vis. no. to flag
> AIPS 1:                                     (not with flag tables)
> AIPS 1: DOHIST        1                     > 0 -> add to history
>
>
>
> Leonia Kogan wrote:
>
>> As I understand, UVFLG (opcode='reas) should unflag  all rows at the 
>> given FG table which
>> include the 'reason' coincided (at all 24 characters) with the given 
>> REASON.
>>
>> All other parameters including  an antenna numbers are not used.
>>
>> Can you send me:
>>
>> List of input parameters
>> imh of the UV data,
>> and the FG table print out
>>
>> Leonia
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim Ulvestad wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The unflag option in UVFLG (opcode 'reas') doesn't appear to be very 
>>> robust.
>>> Claire tells me that it only works for data that were already flagged
>>> in UVFLG, which is certainly my experience--I can't unflag data in
>>> a flag table delivered from the VLBA correlator, using an antenna
>>> number and a reason, with basically all other inputs defaulting.
>>> There is no indication in the help file that I need to set other 
>>> parameters,
>>> such as TIMERANG.  If this is known behavior, perhaps it ought to be
>>> in the help file.  If it's not known behavior, perhaps it is a bug 
>>> or an
>>> incompetent user.  (I got a PI letter from the analysts that said an 
>>> hour of
>>> data was improperly flagged and should be unflagged, but apparently it
>>> isn't so easy!!!)
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
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