[daip] CALIB: problem with TABIO?

Dmitrijs Docenko dima at MPA-Garching.MPG.DE
Tue Jun 19 09:50:19 EDT 2007


Hello!

I am a new AIPS user, but the problem does not seem to come out of this.

While making primary calibration with CALIB, I encountered a TABIO error
sttaing that the LRNO (logical record number?) is too high. Details are
below.

The file was produced from 2-IF, 2-FREQID file by applying UVCOP so that
it contains only one IF and FREQID.

>imh
AIPS 1: Image=MULTI     (UV)         Filename=L A IF1 FQ1 .L BAND.   1
AIPS 1: Telescope=VLA                Receiver=VLA
AIPS 1: Observer=AR378               User #=   53
AIPS 1: Observ. date=17-MAY-1997     Map date=18-JUN-2007
AIPS 1: # visibilities    409565     Sort order  TB
AIPS 1: Rand axes: UU-L-SIN  VV-L-SIN  WW-L-SIN  BASELINE  TIME1
AIPS 1:            SOURCE  FREQSEL
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: Type    Pixels   Coord value     at Pixel     Coord incr   Rotat
AIPS 1: COMPLEX      3   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 1: STOKES       4  -1.0000000E+00       1.00 -1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 1: IF           1   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 1: FREQ         1   1.2850000E+09       1.00  6.2500000E+06    0.00
AIPS 1: RA           1    00 00 00.000       1.00       3600.000    0.00
AIPS 1: DEC          1    00 00 00.000       1.00       3600.000    0.00
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: Coordinate equinox 1950.00
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type FQ is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type HI is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type OF is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type AN is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type CL is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type SU is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type TY is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type WX is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type NX is   1
AIPS 1: Maximum version number of extension files of type SN is   1
AIPS 1: Keyword = 'CORRMODE'  value = '        '
AIPS 1: Keyword = 'VLAIFS  '  value = 'ABCD    '


I was trying to calibrate the flux of secondary calibration source
2352+495 after the primary calibration source went through CALIB:


>inp
AIPS 1: CALIB:  Task to determine calibration for data.
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1:                                    Input uv data.
AIPS 1: INNAME     'L A IF1 FQ1'              UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS    'L BAND'                   UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ         1                       UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK        3                       UV file disk drive #
AIPS 1:                                    Data selection (multisource):
AIPS 1: CALSOUR    '2352+495'              Calibrator sources
AIPS 1:            *rest ' '
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Calibrator qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: CALCODE    ' '                     Calibrator code '    '=>all
AIPS 1: SELBAND      -1                    Bandwidth to select (kHz)
AIPS 1: SELFREQ      -1                    Frequency to select (MHz)
AIPS 1: FREQID        1                    Freq. ID to select.
AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time range to use.
AIPS 1: BCHAN         0                    Lowest channel number 0=>all
AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest channel number
AIPS 1: ANTENNAS   *all 0                  Antennas to select. 0=all
AIPS 1: DOFIT      *all 0                  Subset of ANTENNAS list for
AIPS 1:                                    which solns are desired.
AIPS 1: ANTUSE     *all 0                  Mean gain is calculated
AIPS 1:                                    (CPARM(2)>0) using only the
AIPS 1:                                    listed antennas. See explain.
AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray, 0=>all
AIPS 1: UVRANGE       0           0        Range of uv distance for full
AIPS 1:                                    weight
AIPS 1: WTUV          0                    Weight outside UVRANGE 0=0.
AIPS 1: WEIGHTIT      1                    Modify data weights function
AIPS 1:                                    Cal. info for input:
AIPS 1: DOCALIB      -1                    > 0 calibrate data & weights
AIPS 1:                                    > 99 do NOT calibrate weights
AIPS 1: GAINUSE       0                    CL table to apply.
AIPS 1: DOPOL        -1                    If >0 correct polarization.
AIPS 1: BLVER        -1                    BL table to apply.
AIPS 1: FLAGVER       1                    Flag table version
AIPS 1: DOBAND       -1                    If >0 apply bandpass cal.
AIPS 1:                                    Method used depends on value
AIPS 1:                                    of DOBAND (see HELP file).
AIPS 1: BPVER        -1                    Bandpass table version
AIPS 1: SMOOTH     *all 0                  Smoothing function. See
AIPS 1:                                    HELP SMOOTH for details.
AIPS 1:
AIPS 1:                                    CLEAN map. See HELP.
AIPS 1: IN2NAME    ' '                        Cleaned map name (name)
AIPS 1: IN2CLASS   ' '                        Cleaned map name (class)
AIPS 1: IN2SEQ        0                       Cleaned map name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: IN2DISK       0                       Cleaned map disk unit #
AIPS 1: INVERS        0                    CC file version #.
AIPS 1: NCOMP      *all 0                  # comps to use for model.
AIPS 1:                                    1 value per field
AIPS 1: FLUX          0                    Lowest CC component used.
AIPS 1: NMAPS         0                    No. Clean map files
AIPS 1: CMETHOD    ' '                     Modeling method:
AIPS 1:                                    'DFT','GRID','    '
AIPS 1: CMODEL     ' '                     Model type: 'COMP','IMAG'
AIPS 1: SMODEL     *all 0                  Source model, 1=flux,2=x,3=y
AIPS 1:                                    See HELP SMODEL for models.
AIPS 1:
AIPS 1:                                    Output uv data file.
AIPS 1: OUTNAME    ' '                        UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: OUTCLASS   ' '                        UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        0                       UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: OUTDISK       1                       UV file disk drive #
AIPS 1:
AIPS 1:                                    Solution control adverbs:
AIPS 1: REFANT        9                    Reference antenna
AIPS 1: SOLINT        0                    Solution interval (min)
AIPS 1: SOLSUB        0                    Solution subinterval
AIPS 1: SOLMIN        0                    Min solution interval
AIPS 1: APARM         0           0        General parameters
AIPS 1:               0           0           1=min. no. antennas
AIPS 1:               0           2           2 > 0 => data divided
AIPS 1:            *rest 0                    3 > 0 => avg. RR,LL
AIPS 1:                                       5 > 0 => avg. IFs.
AIPS 1:                                       6=print level, 1=good,
AIPS 1:                                         2 closure, 3 SNR
AIPS 1:                                       7=SNR cutoff (0=>5)
AIPS 1:                                       8=max. ant. # (no AN)
AIPS 1:                                       9 > 0 => pass failed soln
AIPS 1:                                      10 < 99 cal output weights
AIPS 1:                                    Phase-amplitude Parameters:
AIPS 1: DOFLAG        0                    Flag on closure error?
AIPS 1: SOLTYPE    ' '                     Soln type,'  ','L1','GCON',
AIPS 1:                                       'R', 'L1R', 'GCOR'
AIPS 1: SOLMODE    'A&P'                   Soln. mode: 'A&P','P','P!A',
AIPS 1:                                    'GCON',
AIPS 1: SOLCON        0                    Gain constraint factor.
AIPS 1: MINAMPER     10                    Amplitude closure error
AIPS 1:                                    regarded as excessive in %
AIPS 1: MINPHSER     10                    Phase closure error regarded
AIPS 1:                                    as excessive in degrees
AIPS 1: CPARM         0           0        Phase-amp. parameters
AIPS 1:               0           0           1 = Min el for gain
AIPS 1:               1        *rest 0             normalization (deg)
AIPS 1:                                       2 >0 => normalize gain
AIPS 1:                                       3 avg. amp. closure err
AIPS 1:                                       4 avg. ph. closure err
AIPS 1:                                       5 >0 => scalar average
AIPS 1:                                       6 limit clipping in robust
AIPS 1:                                       7 limit display of closure
AIPS 1:                                         errors
AIPS 1: SNVER         1                    Output SN table, 0=>new table
AIPS 1: ANTWT      *all 0                  Ant. weights (0=>1.0)
AIPS 1: GAINERR    *all 0                  Std. Dev. of antenna gains.
AIPS 1: BADDISK    *all 0                  Disk no. not to use for
AIPS 1:                                       scratch files.

Running this, I encounter an error after the calibration
seems to be actually finished:

nca-2 > CALIB1: Task CALIB  (release of 31DEC07) begins
nca-2 > CALIB1: CALIB USING L A IF1 FQ1  . L BAND .   1 DISK=  3 USID=  53
nca-2 > CALIB1: Selecting the data
nca-2 > CALIB1: Doing cal transfer mode with point model for each source
nca-2 > CALIB1: This is not self-calibration
nca-2 > CALIB1: Dividing data by source flux densities
nca-2 > CALIB1: Determining solutions using amp-scalar averaging
nca-2 > CALIB1: Writing SN table    1
nca-2 > CALIB1: Closure errors at308/12:53:10 CAS_A_L1     IF no.  1  Rpol
nca-2 > CALIB1:   04-25   12.0%    1d
nca-2 > CALIB1: Antenna  4 had    1 excess closure errors,    1 printed
nca-2 > CALIB1: Antenna 25 had    1 excess closure errors,    1 printed
       .... (a bit more closure errors below 15%) ....
nca-2 > CALIB1: Antenna 23 had    1 excess closure errors,    1 printed
nca-2 > CALIB1: TABIO: BAD LRNO =        47 LIMIT        46
nca-2 > CALIB1: TABNDX: TABIO ERROR  2
nca-2 > CALIB1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes

I would be very thankful for your help on eliminating this problem.

Yours,
Dmitrijs


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Dmitrijs Docenko
Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1
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