[daip] problems with APCAL
Matthew L Lister
mlister at physics.purdue.edu
Wed Sep 19 10:59:06 EDT 2007
I've been having problems with the 31DEC06 version of APCAL, if I run
APCAL from the 31DEC05 version
on the same data it works fine. Here is the MSGSERV output. I've gotten
the same exact error on
multiple BL149 datasets, everytime it chokes on MK.
prospe> APCAL1: Task APCAL (release of 31DEC06) begins
prospe> APCAL1: TXTWX: Weather data read from WX table 1
prospe> APCAL1: DFTAU: INITIAL TAU0 SET TO 0.036
prospe> APCAL1:
prospe> APCAL1: Writing SN table 2
prospe> APCAL1: BR RCP 1/ 0h 2m Trec (K): 70.80 Zen. opac.: 0.002
prospe> APCAL1: BR LCP 1/ 0h 2m Trec (K): 59.16 Zen. opac.: 0.001
prospe> APCAL1: Plot file version 1 created
prospe> APCAL1: FD RCP 1/ 0h 2m Trec (K): 47.14 Zen. opac.: 0.007
prospe> APCAL1: FD LCP 1/ 0h 2m Trec (K): 52.65 Zen. opac.: 0.012
prospe> APCAL1: GFINIS: number records used 293
prospe> APCAL1: KP RCP 1/ 0h 2m Trec (K): 66.66 Zen. opac.: 0.021
prospe> APCAL1: KP LCP 1/ 0h 2m Trec (K): 65.07 Zen. opac.: 0.018
prospe> APCAL1: Plot file version 2 created
prospe> APCAL1: LA RCP 1/ 0h 2m Trec (K): 50.16 Zen. opac.: 0.003
prospe> APCAL1: LA LCP 1/ 0h 2m Trec (K): 57.21 Zen. opac.: 0.006
prospe> APCAL1: GFINIS: number records used 295
prospe> APCAL1: MK RCP 1/ 0h 2m Trec (K): 44.14 Zen. opac.: -0.003
prospe> APCAL1: OPACOR: ERROR:MK RCP Tau0 (K), 0.00, unreasonable value.
prospe> APCAL1: --This is probably due to bad data in TY table,
prospe> APCAL1: do some editing and try again.
prospe> APCAL1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
Here are the inputs:
AIPS 1: APCAL Task to generate an amplitude calibration SN table
AIPS 1: Adverbs Values Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: INNAME 'BL149AG' Input UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS 'UVDATA' Input UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ 0 Input UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK 9 Input UV file disk unit #
AIPS 1:
AIPS 1: ANTENNAS *all 0 Antennas to calibrate
AIPS 1: SUBARRAY 0 Subarray 0 -> 1
AIPS 1: STOKES ' ' Stokes type ('R','L',' ')
AIPS 1: BIF 0 Start IF number
AIPS 1: EIF 0 End IF number
AIPS 1: FREQID -1 Freq. ID to calibrate
AIPS 1: SOURCES *all ' ' Sources to calibrate
AIPS 1: TIMERANG *all 0 Time range to calibrate
AIPS 1:
AIPS 1: TYVER 1 TY table version number.
AIPS 1: GCVER 1 GC table version number.
AIPS 1: SNVER 2 Output SN table version.
AIPS 1: 0 -> highest unique
AIPS 1: OPCODE 'OPAC' Opacity correction opcode:
AIPS 1: ' ' -> no opacity corr.
AIPS 1: 'GRID','GRDR','OPAC','OPCR',
AIPS 1: 'LESQ' -> fit for opacity
AIPS 1: APARM 0 0 Calibration parameters:
AIPS 1: 0 0 (1) -> B factor (def. 1.0)
AIPS 1: 4 *rest 0 Opacity parameters:
AIPS 1: (2) -> ZA limit (deg)
AIPS 1: (3) >=0 use spillover
AIPS 1: correction
AIPS 1: (4) > 0 use all FQ in
AIPS 1: opac. soln.
AIPS 1: (5) Limit to sec(z) plotted
AIPS 1: SOLINT 0 Solution interval (min)
AIPS 1: 0 -> use all data
AIPS 1: INVERS 1 WX table version number.
AIPS 1: 0 -> use text file
AIPS 1: INFILE *all ' ' Text file with weather info.
AIPS 1: Must be ' ' if using WX
AIPS 1: table (INVERS).
AIPS 1: TRECVR 73 61 Receiver temperatures (K);
AIPS 1: 47 53 in (R,L) pairs.
AIPS 1: 67 64 64 64
AIPS 1: 52 59 44 52
AIPS 1: 56 55 64 66
AIPS 1: 53 53 54 62
AIPS 1: *rest 0
AIPS 1: TAU0 *all 0 Zenith opacities (per ant.)
AIPS 1: DOFIT 1 1 Fit type (per ant.)
AIPS 1: 1 1 -1 -> no opacity correction
AIPS 1: 1 1 0 -> apply TRECVR only
AIPS 1: 1 1 1 -> solve for Trec using
AIPS 1: 1 1 fitting method spec.
AIPS 1: *rest 0 in OPCODE; then apply
AIPS 1: PRTLEV 0 Print level
AIPS 1: DOTV -1 TV selection (<0 -> PL file)
AIPS 1: LTYPE 3 Plot labeling
AIPS 1: GRCHAN 1 TV Graphics channel to use
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