[daip] CALIB problem

Amy Mioduszewski amiodusz at nrao.edu
Thu Jul 30 19:26:24 EDT 2009


Hi Eric,

Abhirup (NMTech student) is having trouble with CALIB.  He has 1212 fields and 
when he runs in version TST it looks for a 1213th field and croaks (see error 
message and inputs below).  When he ran it in version NEW it runs fine.

Amy

CALIB OUTPUT:
ALFIRK> CALIB1: Task CALIB  (release of 31DEC09) begins
ALFIRK> CALIB1: CALIB USING J0924-2201   . BOXC   .   1 DISK=  1 USID=2588
ALFIRK> CALIB1: L1 Solution type
ALFIRK> CALIB1: Create 0924_13DEC  .CALIB .   1 (UV)  on disk  1  cno 1221
ALFIRK> CALIB1: Doing no flagging this time
ALFIRK> CALIB1: Selecting the data
ALFIRK> CALIB1: Using Clean Component self-cal source model
ALFIRK> CALIB1: SETGDS: imaging done with reprojected tangent point(s)
ALFIRK> CALIB1: ERROR  5 FINDING J0924-2201  .IC1213.  1     DISK=  1 USID=2588
ALFIRK> CALIB1: Destroyed UV image file: catno=   1221 disk= 1
ALFIRK> CALIB1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
ALFIRK> CALIB1: alfirk 31DEC09 TST: Cpu=      1.2  Real=      1  IO=        66


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INPUTS OF CALIB
AIPS 1: CALIB:  Task to determine calibration for data.
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1:                                    Input uv data.
AIPS 1: INNAME     'J0924-2201'               UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS    'BOXC'                     UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ         1                       UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK        1                       UV file disk drive #
AIPS 1:                                    Data selection (multisource):
AIPS 1: CALSOUR    *all ' '                Calibrator sources
AIPS 1: QUAL         -1                    Calibrator qualifier -1=>all
AIPS 1: CALCODE    ' '                     Calibrator code '    '=>all
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 use.
AIPS 1: BCHAN         0                    Lowest channel number 0=>all
AIPS 1: ECHAN         0                    Highest channel number
AIPS 1: ANTENNAS   *all 0                  Antennas to select. 0=all
AIPS 1: DOFIT      *all 0                  Subset of ANTENNAS list for
AIPS 1:                                    which solns are desired.
AIPS 1: ANTUSE     *all 0                  Mean gain is calculated
AIPS 1:                                    (CPARM(2)>0) using only the
AIPS 1:                                    listed antennas. See explain.
AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray, 0=>all
AIPS 1: UVRANGE       3.3        25        Range of uv distance for full
AIPS 1:                                    weight
AIPS 1: WTUV          0                    Weight outside UVRANGE 0=0.
AIPS 1: WEIGHTIT      0                    Modify data weights function
AIPS 1:                                    Cal. info for input:
AIPS 1: DOCALIB      -1                    > 0 calibrate data & weights
AIPS 1:                                    > 99 do NOT calibrate weights
AIPS 1: GAINUSE       0                    CL 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: 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:
AIPS 1:                                    CLEAN map. See HELP.
AIPS 1: IN2NAME    'J0924-2201'               Cleaned map name (name)
AIPS 1: IN2CLASS   'ICL001'                   Cleaned map name (class)
AIPS 1: IN2SEQ        1                       Cleaned map name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: IN2DISK       1                       Cleaned map disk unit #
AIPS 1: INVERS        0                    CC file version #.
AIPS 1: NCOMP      *all 0                  # comps to use for model.
AIPS 1:                                    1 value per field
AIPS 1: FLUX          0                    Lowest CC component used.
AIPS 1: NMAPS      1212                    No. Clean map files
AIPS 1: CMETHOD    ' '                     Modeling method:
AIPS 1:                                    'DFT','GRID','    '
AIPS 1: CMODEL     ' '                     Model type: 'COMP','IMAG'
AIPS 1:                                    'SUBI' (see HELP re images)
AIPS 1: SMODEL     *all 0                  Source model, 1=flux,2=x,3=y
AIPS 1:                                    See HELP SMODEL for models.
AIPS 1:
AIPS 1:                                    Output uv data file.
AIPS 1: OUTNAME    '0924_13DEC'               UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: OUTCLASS   ' '                        UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: OUTSEQ        0                       UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: OUTDISK       1                       UV file disk drive #
AIPS 1:
AIPS 1:                                    Solution control adverbs:
AIPS 1: REFANT       13                    Reference antenna
AIPS 1: SOLINT        2                    Solution interval (min)
AIPS 1: SOLSUB        0                    Solution subinterval
AIPS 1: SOLMIN        0                    Min solution interval
AIPS 1: APARM      *all 0                  General parameters
AIPS 1:                                       1=min. no. antennas
AIPS 1:                                       2 > 0 => data divided
AIPS 1:                                       3 > 0 => avg. RR,LL
AIPS 1:                                       5 > 0 => avg. IFs.
AIPS 1:                                       6=print level, 1=good,
AIPS 1:                                         2 closure, 3 SNR
AIPS 1:                                       7=SNR cutoff (0=>5)
AIPS 1:                                       8=max. ant. # (no AN)
AIPS 1:                                       9 > 0 => pass failed soln
AIPS 1:                                      10 < 99 cal output weights
AIPS 1:                                    Phase-amplitude Parameters:
AIPS 1: DOFLAG        0                    Flag on closure error?
AIPS 1: SOLTYPE    'L1R'                   Soln type,'  ','L1','GCON',
AIPS 1:                                       'R', 'L1R', 'GCOR'
AIPS 1: SOLMODE    'P'                     Soln. mode: 'A&P','P','P!A',
AIPS 1:                                    'GCON',
AIPS 1: SOLCON        0                    Gain constraint factor.
AIPS 1: MINAMPER      0                    Amplitude closure error
AIPS 1:                                    regarded as excessive in %
AIPS 1: MINPHSER      0                    Phase closure error regarded
AIPS 1:                                    as excessive in degrees
AIPS 1: CPARM      *all 0                  Phase-amp. parameters
AIPS 1:                                       1 = Min el for gain
AIPS 1:                                            normalization (deg)
AIPS 1:                                       2 >0 => normalize gain
AIPS 1:                                       3 avg. amp. closure err
AIPS 1:                                       4 avg. ph. closure err
AIPS 1:                                       5 >0 => scalar average
AIPS 1:                                       6 limit clipping in robust
AIPS 1:                                       7 limit display of closure
AIPS 1:                                         errors
AIPS 1: SNVER         0                    Output SN table, 0=>new table
AIPS 1: ANTWT      *all 0                  Ant. weights (0=>1.0)
AIPS 1: GAINERR    *all 0                  Std. Dev. of antenna gains.
AIPS 1: BADDISK    *all 0                  Disk no. not to use for
AIPS 1:                                       scratch files.




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