[daip] help with UVLSF, please
Gustaaf van Moorsel
gvanmoor at nrao.edu
Wed Dec 12 11:58:33 EST 2007
Claire Chandler wrote:
> We can't run UVLSF on the calibrator because we have no way of removing
> a scaled version of it from the target source. Such a program could be
> written, and it is the equivalent of a frequency-dependent BLCAL. But
> even then we would have to worry about the fact that there is no
> aliasing in the line emission, so such a correction would not be valid
> for the line data.
But - assuming such a program can be written - the scaling would
be based on the line-free channels only. So the steps would be:
1 - do the UVLSF 4th order fit on calibrator scans
2 - scale this fitted shape so that it fits a number of line-free
channels at either end of the source line emission.
Gustaaf
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