[daip] Question about "no adverb"

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Jul 3 16:08:49 EDT 2009


Cheng-Yu Kuo wrote:
>            To whom it may concern:
> 
>        My name is Chengyu Kuo,  I am a graduate student at UVa. I have a 
> question about
> an error in AIPS. Today, when I was about the run the AIPS procedure 
> VLBAMPCL, AIPS
> shows the following:
> 
> "AIPS 1: VLBAMPCL: Procedure to manually correct instrumental phases
> AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
> AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
> AIPS 1:                                    You must type RUN VLBAUTIL
> AIPS 1:                                    to see all the inputs to
> AIPS 1:                                    this procedure.
> AIPS 1: INNAME     ' '                     Input UV file name (name)
> AIPS 1: INCLASS    ' '                     Input UV file name (class)
> AIPS 1: INSEQ         0                    Input UV file name (seq. #)
> AIPS 1: INDISK        0                    Input UV file disk unit #
> AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time range of a calibrator
> AIPS 1:                                     1-4 = start day,hr,min,sec
> AIPS 1:                                     5-8 = end   day,hr,min,sec
> AIPS 1:                                    MUST BE SPECIFIED
> AIPS 1: BCHAN         1                    Lowest channel number 0=>all
> AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest channel number
> AIPS 1: REFANT        0                    Ref. antenna, 0=>the first
> AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray;  0 => all.
> AIPS 1: CALSOUR    *all ' '                Calibrator source name;
> AIPS 1:                                    blank => any
> AIPS 1: GAINUSE       0                    CL table to use; 0=>highest
> AIPS 1: ** press RETURN for more, enter Q or next line to quit print **
> #
> AIPS 1:                                    ADVERBS IF 2 SCANS MUST BE
> AIPS 1:                                    USED TO CORRECT ALL ANTENNAS:
> AIPS 1: OPCODE     ' '                     'CALP' if you are using 2
> AIPS 1:                                    scans, otherwise ''
> AIPS 1: MISSING ADVERB: TRY A 'COMPRESS' OR 'HELP NOADVERB' FOR INFO
> AIPS 1: SYMBOL?       TIME2
> 
> I tried several things to fix the problem (compress, run newparm, 
> default), but none of them
> help. Is there any other way to fix the problem ? Thank you !
> 
> regards
> chengyu
> 
> 
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Note the instructions to RUN VLBAUTIL before doing anything.  That will 
define TIME2  (an array(8))

Eric Greisen




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