[daip] Fwd: Use of EDITR in AL730 project
Barney Rickett
bjrickett at ucsd.edu
Mon Feb 16 18:20:49 EST 2009
Sorry I forgot to sign my name!
Barney Rickett
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Barney Rickett <bjrickett at ucsd.edu>
> Date: February 16, 2009 10:34:13 AM PST
> To: daip at nrao.edu
> Subject: Fwd: Use of EDITR in AL730 project
>
>
> Dear AIPS helper (I am hoping the daip address is still correct),
>
> Please can you advise me on the following problem.
>
> I am flagging a large data set from project AL730 recorded in
> January this year and have difficulties with 'EDITR'.
>
> The data consists of 3sec samples continuum data with a 50 sec scan
> on a set of about 160 sources using two subarrays with IFs AC at
> 6.6 GHz and BD at 4.8 GHz. The observations continued for about
> 109 hrs (!) and have been concatenated into a single large file.
>
> I am working on data from one of the subarrays and analyzing IF1.
> Initial tasks are TACOP to make a copy of the CL table 1, QUACK to
> remove first 10sec of each scan, SETJY to set the flux density scale.
> I then used EDITA to flag a substantial number of points based on
> TANT values from the TY table that were above ~300 K (some were in
> Giga Kelvin from a few of the antennas) creating FG2.
>
> I then have been working through the source list flagging with
> editr and looking at the results with uvplt. After the use of
> edita, I set FLAGVER to 0 and was appending the flags to FG2 by
> setting OUTFGVER 2 also. (I also tried with FLAGVER 2). After a
> bout of flagging I EXIT and look at that source with uvplt set from
> amplitude vs UVbaseline length. After flagging some sources
> successfully (primary calibrator 3C286 and some secondary
> calibrators) I now find that newly stored flags do not seem to be
> entered into the FG table (or not recognized by UVPLT). I tried
> allowing the FG table number to increase by setting OUTFGVER 0 and
> FLAGVER 0, which I thought solved the problem initially but does
> not work now.
>
> Also I rerun editr with flagver set to read the previous flags but
> see plots with the previously flagged points still displayed. I
> reflag them and repeat the sequence and get the same result, even
> though a REPLOT in EDITR removes the flagged pts from the plot. I
> also tried with and without calibration - setting DOCALIB -1 1 2,
> with no noticeable change.
>
> I have tried restarting the whole sequence several times but always
> end up with unflaggable points. As a relative novice to AIPS I
> assumed I was making errors in the setup, but after several weeks
> of attempts I am at a loss as to how to proceed.
>
> I wonder if there is some limit to the number of entries into a
> flag table?
> Can you suggest any diagnostic or change in procedure?
> I am appending the inputs and outputs from EDITR that might provide
> clues as to what I am doing wrong.
>
> Here is the typical inp to 'editr' from a recent run
>
> >inp
> AIPS 1: EDITR: Interactive baseline-oriented UV data editor using
> the TV
> AIPS 1: Adverbs Values Comments
> AIPS 1:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 1: INNAME 'AL730_CONC' Input UV data (name)
> AIPS 1: INCLASS 'DBCON' Input UV data (class)
> AIPS 1: INSEQ 1 Input UV data (seq. #)
> AIPS 1: INDISK 1 Input UV data disk drive #
> AIPS 1: SOURCES 'G01183910' Source list
> AIPS 1: *rest ' '
> AIPS 1: QUAL -1 Calibrator qualifier
> -1=>all
> AIPS 1: CALCODE ' ' Calibrator code ' '=>all
> AIPS 1: TIMERANG *all 0 Time range to use
> AIPS 1: SELBAND -1 Bandwidth to select (kHz)
> AIPS 1: SELFREQ -1 Frequency to select (MHz)
> AIPS 1: FREQID 1 Freq. ID to select.
> AIPS 1: SUBARRAY 0 Subarray, 0=>1
> AIPS 1: DOCALIB -1 > 0 calibrate data &
> weights
> AIPS 1: > 99 do NOT calibrate
> weights
> AIPS 1: GAINUSE 2 CL (or SN) table to apply
> AIPS 1: DOPOL -1 If >0 correct polarization.
> AIPS 1: BLVER -1 BL table to apply.
> AIPS 1: FLAGVER 5 Flag table version
> AIPS 1: OUTFGVER 0 Output FG table version
> AIPS 1: DOBAND -1 If >0 apply bandpass cal.
> AIPS 1: Method used depends on
> value
> AIPS 1: of DOBAND (see HELP file).
> AIPS 1: BPVER -1 Bandpass table version
> AIPS 1: SMOOTH *all 0 Smoothing function. See
> AIPS 1: HELP SMOOTH for details.
> AIPS 1: STOKES ' ' Use 'I' to edit RR and LL
> AIPS 1: combined, else task will
> set
> AIPS 1: BCHAN 1 Low freq. channel in
> average
> AIPS 1: ECHAN 1 High freq channel in
> average
> AIPS 1: BIF 1 First IF displayed
> AIPS 1: EIF 1 Last IF displayed
> AIPS 1: UVRANGE 0 0 Min & max baseline
> (klambda)
> AIPS 1: ANTENNAS 2 3 List of antennas to be used
> AIPS 1: 4 9 11 13
> AIPS 1: 16 17 18 21
> AIPS 1: 24 26 28 *rest 0
> AIPS 1: IN2NAME ' ' 2nd UV file name
> AIPS 1: IN2CLASS ' ' 2nd UV file class
> AIPS 1: IN2SEQ 0 2nd UV file sequence
> AIPS 1: IN2DISK 0 2nd UV file disk
> AIPS 1: DOHIST -1 Record flags in history
> file
> AIPS 1: SOLINT 0 Data averaging time in mins
> AIPS 1: DETIME 0 Break interval (min)
> AIPS 1: DOWEIGHT 1 Rescale weights by DOWEIGHT
> AIPS 1: DOTWO 1 True => do second
> observable
> AIPS 1: plot of main baseline
> AIPS 1: EXPERT 0 > 0 start in expert mode
> AIPS 1: CROWDED 0 > 0 => allow plots with all
>
> (Most editr runs had flagver 0 outfgver 2)
>
> Here is a typical output from MSGSERV:
> I dont understand the warning about an FC table
> I dont understand the message "Doing no flagging this time"
>
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Task EDITR (release of 31DEC09) begins
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Doing no flagging this time
> LOCALH> EDITR1: **** WARNING: USING A PRE-EXISTING FC TABLE ****
> LOCALH> EDITR1: DOING SUBARRAY 1 ONLY
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Read the data to list times
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Allocate 311609 words at 5562814
> LOCALH> EDITR1: All data will reside in memory
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Found 361 times, stored on a time axis of length 415
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Read the data into memory
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Plotting:
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Press buttons A, B, or C to choose an operation
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Press button D for on-line help
> ....
> .... etc
> .....
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Flagged 151 points in T x F 1 414 x 1.360E
> +00 1.000E+20
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Press buttons A, B, or C to choose an operation
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Press button D for on-line help
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Plotting:
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Press buttons A, B, or C to choose an operation
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Press button D for on-line help
> LOCALH> EDITR1: EDFCAP: copied***** rows from FG table version 4
> LOCALH> EDITR1: EDFCAP: added 152 rows to FG table version 5
> LOCALH> EDITR1: Appears to have ended successfully
> LOCALH> EDITR1: localhos 31DEC09 TST: Cpu= 46.3 Real= 170
> IO= 59
>
>
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