[daip] Useful units for gain listings
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Mar 12 14:49:44 EDT 2008
Rick Perley wrote:
> Eric:
>
> If you have a few minutes to spare, within which you can make a
> minor, but useful, modification to LISTR, in the 'gain' option, what
> we'd like to have are two alternate ways to list the gains:
>
> A) 'Effective System Temperature', defined as Tsys/Efficiency, which
> is obtained by squaring the gain solution and multiplying by 36.8. The
> units are K.
> B) System Equivalent Flux Density (SEFD), defined as the flux density
> which doubles the system temperature, whichis generated by squaring the
> gain solution and multiplying by 206. The units are Jy.
> In the 'help file', it should be noted that for these quantities to
> be what they claim they are, the visibility data must be loaded as
> correlation coefficients, the calibrator source must be unresolved, and
> the flux density of the calibrator source must be known. The method is
> outlined in EVLA Memo #119.
> Thanks!
>
> Rick
Done - should be available now.
Eric Greisen
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