[daip] Scaling problem for model in VPLOT
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Jul 4 19:05:45 EDT 2008
Craig Walker wrote:
> We were running UVFIT which leaves a CC table attached to the UV data
> set. We then tried to plot the data and model using VPLOT. That works,
> but there is clearly a scaling problem of some sort with the model. The
> model line shows phase winds at an extremely high rate (seconds) when it
> should have a turn or two across the day. We then copied the CC table
> to an image that had been made from that data set and re-ran VPLOT,
> pointing to the CC table now attached to the image (exactly the same CC
> table that was attached to the UV data set). Now the plot comes out fine.
>
> A probably-related problem occurs with PRTCC. When printing the CC
> table from UVFIT when it is attached to the image file (after TACOP), it
> shows normally. When printing it while attached to the UV data, the
> positions are in units of kilo-arcsec and the position values all show
> as 0.00.
>
> I suspect that both PRTCC and VPLOT get some sort of scaling information
> from the header that is not really available for a UV data set. Somehow
> this doesn't cause a crash, but does cause massive confusion about the
> meaning of the position offsets.
>
>
PRTCC used the image axes to set print scales (deg, arc sec, milli
arcsec) and modeling software made deep assumptions that CCs are only on
images. I think I fixed it to the level that UVSUB seems to work as
well as VPLOT and PRTCC. Also fixed a phase flipping problem with plot
scales not having been applied to the model plot.
Cheers,
Eric Greisen
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