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[Eric Greisen]

From: Andrei Sokolov <asokolov at uclan.ac.uk>
To: analysts at nrao.edu
Subject: ATMCA
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:46:50 +0000

Hello,

I've tried to use the new procedure called ATMCA for our phase-reference experiment
and it finished with the following message

gl1.st> ATMCA1: Task ATMCA  (release of 31DEC06) begins
gl1.st> ATMCA1: Copied CL file from vol/cno/vers  3   75   3 to  3   75   4
gl1.st> ATMCA1: Copied SN file from vol/cno/vers  3   75   2 to  3   75   4
gl1.st> ATMCA1:
gl1.st> ATMCA1: !! Intermediate SN table   4 created !!
gl1.st> ATMCA1: Copied SN file from vol/cno/vers  3   75   4 to  3   75   3
gl1.st> ATMCA1: ZTXOP2: using translated file name =
gl1.st> ATMCA1: ZTXOP2: /gl1/work/as/ATMCA/atmca.slopes
gl1.st> ATMCA1: -----------CL table outputs warnings:-----------
gl1.st> ATMCA1:
gl1.st> ATMCA1:
gl1.st> ATMCA1: -----------SN table outputs warnings:-----------
gl1.st> ATMCA1: | The angle Source 2207+374                                   |
gl1.st> ATMCA1: | to Reference BLLAC            to Calibrator 2151+431        |
gl1.st> ATMCA1: | is 40.3 degrees and exceeds the threshold 30 degrees        |
gl1.st> ATMCA1: | So the CALIBRATOR is not used with the SOURCE               |
gl1.st> ATMCA1:
gl1.st> ATMCA1: | The angle Source 2151+431                                   |
gl1.st> ATMCA1: | to Reference BLLAC            to Calibrator 2207+374        |
gl1.st> ATMCA1: | is 40.3 degrees and exceeds the threshold 30 degrees        |
gl1.st> ATMCA1: | So the CALIBRATOR is not used with the SOURCE               |
gl1.st> ATMCA1:
gl1.st> ATMCA1:    486 records of the CL table  4 modified
gl1.st> ATMCA1:    390 records of the output SN table  3 modified
gl1.st> ATMCA1: Appears to have ended successfully

How do I interprete the phase "is 40.3 degrees and exceeds the threshold 30 degrees. So the CALIBRATOR is not used with the SOURCE"?
Our calibrators are quite close to BL Lac, about 1 and 5 degrees away.

thanks,
Andrei