[daip] WIPER failure?

Adam Ginsburg adam.ginsburg at colorado.edu
Tue Jul 7 18:29:03 EDT 2009


Hi DAIP,
   I'm trying to use WIPER.  It shows the expected UVPLOT but no menu,
and does not respond to any commands (abcd).  The command prompt never
returns to allow input.  Is there a known error in the latest AIPS?

My input parameters:

AIPS 1: WIPER     Plots and edits data from a u,v data base using TV
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: INNAME     'IRDC33A'               Input UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS    'ICL001'                Input UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ         7                    Input UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK        1                    Input UV file disk unit #
AIPS 1: SOURCES    *all ' '                Sources to plot, ' '=>all.
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: CALCODE    ' '                     Calibrator code '    '=>all
AIPS 1: STOKES     ' '                     Stokes type to select.
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: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time range to select
AIPS 1: ANTENNAS   *all 0                  Antennas to plot
AIPS 1: BASELINE   *all 0                  Baselines with ANTENNAS
AIPS 1: UVRANGE       0           0        UV range in kilolambda.
AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray, 0 => all
AIPS 1: BCHAN         1                    1st spectral channel #
AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Last spectral channel #
AIPS 1: CHINC         1                    Increment in channel #
AIPS 1: BIF           1                    Low IF number to plot
AIPS 1: EIF           2                    Highest IF number to plot
AIPS 1: DOCALIB      -1                    > 0 calibrate data & weights
AIPS 1:                                    > 99 do NOT calibrate weights
AIPS 1: GAINUSE       0                    CAL (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       0                    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: BPARM      *all 0                  Control parameters
AIPS 1:                                    1 : X-axis type 0=>UV dist
AIPS 1:                                    2 : Y-axis type 0=>Ampl
AIPS 1:                                        1=> amplitude (Jy)
AIPS 1:                                        2=> phase (degrees)
AIPS 1:                                        3=> uv dist. (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                        4=> uv p.a. (deg N->E)
AIPS 1:                                        5=> time (IAT days)
AIPS 1:                                        6=> u (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                        7=> v (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                        8=> w (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                        9=> Re(Vis) (Jy)
AIPS 1:                                        10=> Im(Vis) (Jy)
AIPS 1:                                        11=> time (IAT hours)
AIPS 1:                                        12=> log(ampl)
AIPS 1:                                        13=> weight
AIPS 1:                                        14=> HA (hours)
AIPS 1: ** press RETURN for more, enter Q or next line to quit print **
#
AIPS 1:                                        15=> elevation (deg)
AIPS 1:                                        16=> parallactic angle
AIPS 1:                                        17=> uv dist. (klambda)
AIPS 1:                                             along p.a.
AIPS 1:                                        18=> azimuth (deg)
AIPS 1:                                    3 : > 0.0 => fixed scale
AIPS 1:                                        < 0.0 => fixed range
AIPS 1:                                    4 : Xmin (fixed scale)
AIPS 1:                                    5 : Xmax (fixed scale)
AIPS 1:                                    6 : Ymin (fixed scale)
AIPS 1:                                    7 : Ymax (fixed scale)
AIPS 1:                                    9 : radius of fat wiper
AIPS 1:                                    10: > 0 => plot auto-corr too
AIPS 1: REFANT        0                    > 0 => use REFANT for plot
AIPS 1:                                    types 14, 15, 16
AIPS 1: ROTATE        0                    uv p.a. for projection
AIPS 1:                                    (deg N->E); type 17 only
AIPS 1: IMSIZE     1024        1024        Size of plot in memory
AIPS 1: DOCENTER      1                    Place menu at left (-1),
AIPS 1:                                    center (1), right (0)
AIPS 1: DOALL        -1                    bit 1 flag all channels
AIPS 1:                                    bit 2 flag all IFs if 1
AIPS 1:                                    bit 3 flag all polarizations
AIPS 1: BADDISK    *all 0                  Disk to avoid for scratch.


Thanks,
Adam




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