[daip] AIPS Editr Flagging Issue

[Cliff Senkbeil]

Dear Eric Greisen,

Thank you for you prompt reply. I'll test out the TABED/TABPUT verbs today.

Thanks again,

Cliff

Eric Greisen wrote:

>I took a quick look at the source code for EDITR, EDITA, and SNEDT (a
>shared edit object) and the source number to be flagged is set to zero
>by the code.  It will be difficult to change this but I have put it on
>my wish list.  Note that I cannot change the behavior of the 31DEC04
>version of anything - a fix will appear in due course in the 31DEC06
>version and will offer the choice of ONE SOURCE or ALL SOURCE as TVFLG
>has always done.  You can use TABED or verb TABPUT to change the
>source number IDs in the FG table from 0 to the source ID of 3C286 or
>whichever source you wanted flagged.  Note that the assumption is that
>if the calibrator is bad over some long time range, then the target
>sources in that time range are at best highly dubious.  If you use
>EDITR but flag only within each scan not over some long time range as
>in your example, then the data between the flagged scans will not
>disappear initially.  They may go away later when there is no
>calibration for them.
>
>Eric Greisen
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