[daip] SDGRD/PRTSD/SDIMG and XX and YY data?

[Eric Greisen]

Glen Langston writes:
 > Thanks for looking into this Eric,
 > 
 > I appreciate your efforts.
 > 
 > Regards
 > 
 > Glen
 > 
 > For the time being, I'm just labeling the XX,YY data as RR,LL
 > and using the existing tasks without problems.
 > 
 > One question concerning flagging Single dish data.
 > I may be miss understanding the single dish format,
 > but was making the baseline parameter be GBT scan #
 > and GBT integration # within a Scan.   However the
 > prtsd functions seem to be producing something call
 > beam number.  I'm infering that BEAM nubmer is sort of
 > a spectrum count index.
 > 
 > Is there any documentation on what the required
 > AIPS SDFITS file should look like?

See Chapter 10 of the CookBook.  BEAM means just that - for a
multi-feed telescope it is the beam number to separate things that
should be edited separately.  There are SCAN and SAMPLE parameters for
you to use for the GBT scan/sample recording.

Eric Greisen


 > 
 > > The FNDPOL routine is grossly incompetent.  This is going to be a big
 > > mess.
 > >
 > > Eric
 > >
 >