[daip] Potential LISTR Bug
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Nov 28 16:40:34 EST 2007
Found it:
12506. November 28, 2007 polarization cal Eric
A bug was discovered that caused polarization calibration to
be incorrect when the calibration routines are initialized for
a second time. This is common - LISTR loops over IF with an
init each time, SPLIT loops over source, UVPLT reads the data
for scaling and checking before rereading for plotting, etc.
The result is grossly wrong data because the polarization cal
tables do not get reinitialized. Fortunately, the bug applies
only to non-approximate modes and then only when the
parallactic angle does not change which would be rare except
for equatorial telescopes which have no parallactic angle.
Thus WSRT data are almost the only data affected by this bug.
Changed DATPOL to init the "old" parallactic angle to an
impossible value whenever the source changes.
The MNJ run tomorrow will fix the bug.
Many thanks for your diligence and help.
Eric Greisen
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