[daip] Request for CLCOR enhancement

[Leonia Kogan]

Robert,

I'll start working on this addition the current Monday

Leonia

Robert Mutel wrote:
> Dear AIPS people, esp. Leonia,
>
> We (Bill Peterson and I) are in the middle of a 6 -epoch HSA
> observation of Algol at U band. Since the K star in the inner binary
> moves significantly in a 12 hour
> observation period, and the radio emission is (likely nearly)
> co-moving with the K star, we would like to be able to adjust the
> phases so the phase center follows the K star.
> Thus we would like AIPS to be able to correct for a moving source.
>
> This could be done [probably easily] by modifying CLCOR. The easiest
> enhancement would be a linear approximation, i.e., the user specifies
> a RA and dec rate (in mas/hr say).
> A more sophisticated approach would be to read in a table of RA/Dec
> offsets as a function of JD.
>
> This enhancement would benefit all users who are observing moving
> sources whose coordinates shift by a significant amount w.r.t. the
> synthesized beam within an observation period.
>
> Robert Mutel and Bill Peterson
>
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