[daip] problem running BLCAL
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Mar 16 16:22:06 EDT 2007
Claire Chandler writes:
> Hi Eric,
>
> I'm trying to run BLCAL to compute closure corrections for the VLA-EVLA
> baselines. When I specify the calibrator source name, with SMODEL
> defining the flux of the source, I get an error that it can't find the
> source flux (I did not bother to set it using SETJY). So, I set it in
> SETJY and tried again, and this time BLCAL complained that it could not
> find the flux of my target source, even though this source was not
> specified in the inputs. But why is BLCAL even trying to divide my target
> source by a flux? It should not be using it at all. We are telling
> people that they need to run BLCAL in order to deal with our current
> closure errors, so it would be good to get this sorted out.
>
Yes, the task never worked before. It demanded fluxes for all sources
in the source table but then only used the ones it needed. I moved
the 0 divide test to the inside of the loop.
Eric Greisen
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