[daip] keyword for aberration correction
Walter Brisken
wbrisken at nrao.edu
Thu Jul 17 15:35:55 EDT 2008
Today at the VLBA Test and Development meeting I mentioned that with the
software correlator I plan to use UVW coordinates that are corrected for
the various relativistic effects (aberration, etc). I believe this should
be made clear in a table keyword. I would like the keyword (call it
ABERCORR here, subject to other suggestions) to have at least three
levels:
ABERCORR = UNCORRECTED -- the uvw values are those returned by calc
ABERCORR = APPROXIMATE -- a correction, acturate to some level, is made
ABERCORR = EXACT -- all corrections consistent with the delay model are made
Does this sound reasonable? I would suggest making this an optional
keyword in the UV_DATA table of FITS-IDI files. The default if left
unspecified would be UNCORRECTED.
-Walter
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