[daip] ACFIT

Lynn D. Matthews lmatthew at cfa.harvard.edu
Thu Mar 29 17:27:43 EDT 2007


I have just run ACFIT on a couple of VLBA data sets (with 2 IFs, 1
polarization), and the results look sensible, but I noticed that the
printed messages refer to an "offset of *********" being removed from the
template. Does this signify some problem? My task inputs are appended
below.

Lynn

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ACFIT1 11:32:04 Task ACFIT  (release of 31DEC07) begins
ACFIT1 11:32:04 You are using a non-standard program
ACFIT1 11:32:04 Will write out baseline-corrected autocorrelations
ACFIT1 11:32:06 Mid time of template scan =   0/ 19 52 47.2
ACFIT1 11:32:06 Template: POL:  1 IF:  1 offset of ********* removed
ACFIT1 11:32:06 Template: POL:  1 IF:  2 offset of ********* removed


AIPS 1: ACFIT     Task to determine antenna gains from autocorrelations
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: USERID        0                    User number
AIPS 1: INNAME     'BG118C CVEL'           Input UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS    'A/C'                   Input UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ         2                    Input UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK        3                    Input UV file disk unit #
AIPS 1:
AIPS 1:                                    Data Selection
AIPS 1: CALSOUR    'BNKL-I'                Sources to use to determine
AIPS 1:            *rest ' '               gains.
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 select
AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray, 0=>1
AIPS 1: ANTENNAS   *all 0                  Antennas to select
AIPS 1:
AIPS 1:                                    Template file
AIPS 1: IN2NAME    'BNKL-I'                Template UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: IN2CLASS   'TMPLTC'                Template UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: IN2SEQ        2                    Template UV file name (seq.#)
AIPS 1: IN2DISK       3                    Template UV file disk unit #
AIPS 1: REFANT        4                    Reference antenna.
AIPS 1:                                    Control options
AIPS 1: DOCALIB       2                    > 0 calibrate data & weights
AIPS 1:                                    > 99 do NOT calibrate weights
AIPS 1: GAINUSE       5                    CL (or SN) table to apply
AIPS 1: FLAGVER       2                    Flag table version
AIPS 1: SOLINT        1                    Solution interval
AIPS 1: DOBAND       -1                    If > 1 apply BP correction
AIPS 1: BPVER         1                    BP table version to write
AIPS 1: SMOOTH        1        *rest 0     Smoothing function. See
AIPS 1:                                    HELP SMOOTH for details.
AIPS 1:                                    Does not apply to template
AIPS 1:                                    spectrum.
AIPS 1: BCHAN       100                    Start channel for fit 0=>1
AIPS 1: ECHAN       400                    Stop channel for fit 0=>all
AIPS 1: APARM         2           2        Control information:
AIPS 1:               1           1        (1) Polynomial degree for
AIPS 1:               0           0            source spectrum baseline
AIPS 1:               0           1        (2) Polynomial degree for
AIPS 1:               0           1            template spect. baseline
AIPS 1:                                    (3) Rpol sensitivity of
AIPS 1:                                        template antenna (Jy/K).
AIPS 1:                                        Use this if only one
AIPS 1:                                        polzn in data.
AIPS 1:                                    (4) Lpol sensitivity of
AIPS 1:                                        template antenna (Jy/K)
AIPS 1:                                    (5) Minimum allowed relative
AIPS 1:                                        gain value, 0 => 0
AIPS 1:                                    (6) Maximum allowed relative
AIPS 1:                                        gain value, 0 => all
AIPS 1:                                    (7) Maximum allowed relative
AIPS 1:                                        gain error, 0 => all
AIPS 1:                                    (8) Print level, 1=> print
AIPS 1:                                        gains.
AIPS 1:                                    (9) >0 => Baseline
AIPS 1:                                        independent fit.
AIPS 1:                                    (10)>0 => write out AC data
AIPS 1:                                        after baseline removed
AIPS 1: BPARM       100         160        Array of start and stop
AIPS 1:             370         400        channel numbers for baseline
AIPS 1:            *rest 0                 fitting on source spectrum.
AIPS 1: CPARM       100         160        Array of start and stop
AIPS 1:             370         400        channel numbers for baseline
AIPS 1:            *rest 0                 fitting on template spectrum.
AIPS 1: XPARM         1           1        Array of Rpol Tsys(IF) of
AIPS 1:               1           1        template scan. 0 => 1.0.
AIPS 1:               1           1        Use XPARM if only one polzn
AIPS 1:               1           1        in database.
AIPS 1:               1           1
AIPS 1: YPARM         1           1        Array of Lpol Tsys(IF) of
AIPS 1:               1           1        template scan. 0 => 1.0
AIPS 1:               1           1           1           1
AIPS 1:               1           1
AIPS 1: SNVER         3                    Output SN table, 0=>new table
AIPS 1: OUTNAME    'BG118C CVEL'           Output UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: OUTCLASS   'ACFIT'                 Output UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        2                    Output UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: OUTDISK       3                    Output UV file disk unit #
AIPS 1: BADDISK    *all 0                  Disks to avoid for scratch




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