[daip] UVMOD/UVFIX question
Hanno Spreeuw
J.N.Spreeuw at uva.nl
Mon Jun 9 09:02:50 EDT 2008
It is a VLA dataset. Please let me get back on this later this week. I'd
be happy to post that dataset and the results on my homepage in such a
way that you can verify this.
Hanno.
Eric Greisen wrote:
> Hanno Spreeuw wrote:
>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> It seems that inserted sources with FPOS<>0 do not appear in the
>> images exactly where they should. The errors increase away from the
>> tangent point. This confirms earlier results by James Miller-Jones
>> (CC). However, with FPOS=0, the source always appears at the tangent
>> point.
>> We are testing new source extraction code. In order to check our
>> deblending algorithm, we are inserting many sources in a small patch
>> of the sky. With these artificial sources one always knows the true
>> flux and position, so that is good for testing.
>> I am considering the workaround with UVFIX for these tests.
>
>
> If what you say is true, then it is unlikely for any of AIPS to work
> correctly. UVMOD uses the same phasing routines used elsewhere in AIPS
> including but not limited to UVFIX and IMAGR. What telescope has
> produced your data and what are you doing?
>
> Eric Greisen
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