[daip] request for support

[Eric Greisen]

ereynoso at iafe.uba.ar writes:

 > I have a problem with an archival file of VLA data from 1996 that I am now
 > trying to deal with.
 > I was searching for HI data towards Kepler's supernova remnant (that I
 > positively knew was observed on September 1996); the result of the search
 > was a set of observations in the L band and in the D configuration under
 > the project name TESTS, ranging from 96-Sep-14 00:42:40 to 02:37:39, but
 > when I load the data into aips with FILLM and list the scans, find only
 > data from 01:16:50 onwards and at 45 GHz. I see nothing at 21 cm or at the
 > position of Kepler's SNR (but at a nearby source: 'M17-UC1'). I tried this
 > search several times constraining more and more the parameters, selecting
 > coordinates instead of source name, etc, and the result is always the same
 > file.
 > 
 > Could you give me a hint on what is going on? I am afraid that the
 > relevant data I am interested in (that is, HI towards Kepler's SNR) were
 > observed between 00:42:40 and 01:16:50, and for some reason FILLM is not
 > reading them or LISTR is not listing them.
 > 

Yes I can give you a hint.  I downloaded this time range too and ran
PRTTP on the file with PRTLEV 2.  It told me that there are 3 segments
of data.  The first at L band is at subarray 2.  So set CPARM(6) to 2
in FILLM and you will get a bunch of HI kepler data.

Eric Greisen