[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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