[daip] Strange SN table generated by FRING

Amy Mioduszewski amiodusz at nrao.edu
Thu Apr 22 10:51:31 EDT 2010


In the last few days others have reported similar FRING oddities, we are looking 
at it.

Amy

ljuan wrote:
> Dear Sirs or Madams,
> 
>   Hello, I have a problem with FRING. I want to use one scan on a strong calibrator to do phase calibration to align all bands by removing a delay and phase from each IF. The timerang of FRING is 0 11 01 23  0 11 04 35 and the solint is 4. The timerang is less than 4 min, but there're 2 epochs for solution:
> 
> ****************************
> 
> localh> FRING1: Task FRING  (release of 31DEC09) begins
> localh> FRING1: You are using a non-standard program
> localh> FRING1: Doing no flagging this time
> localh> FRING1: Selecting and calibrating the data
> localh> FRING1: Dividing data by source flux densities
> localh> FRING1: Determining solutions
> localh> FRING1: Writing SN table    3
> localh> FRING1: Time=   0/ 11 03 01, Polarization = 1
> localh> FRING1: QINIT: did a GET  of      5120 Kwords, OFF       -383025957
> localh> FRING1: Time=   0/ 11 03 01, Polarization = 2
> localh> FRING1: Time=   0/ 11 04 35, Polarization = 1
> localh> FRING1: Time=   0/ 11 04 35, Polarization = 2
> localh> FRING1: Found       22 good solutions
> localh> FRING1: Failed on       16 solutions
> localh> FRING1: Adjusting solutions to a common reference antenna
> localh> FRING1: Appears to have ended successfully
> 
> ****************************
> 
> The output SN table of FRING is strange, row 11-19 is INDE:
> 
> ****************************
> 
>  localhos  PRTAB(31DEC09)      2     20-APR-2010  10:06:43    Page    1
> BR129DB     .LING31.   1  Disk= 2    SN Table version   3
> Title: AIPS UV DATA FILE SOLUTION TABLE
> Created by      FRING on 16-APR-2010 17:58:31
> Last written by FRING on 20-APR-2010 09:44:23
> Ncol  22  Nrow      19    Sort cols:   1 (ASCEND)   4 (ASCEND)
>     Table has     8 keyword-value pairs:
>    NO_ANT   =           10
>    NO_POL   =            2
>    NO_IF    =            1
>    NO_NODES =            0
>    MGMOD    =  1.0000000000000D+00
>    APPLIED  =  T
>    REVISION =           10
>    ORIGIN   =            0
>    Table can be written as a FITS ASCII table
>  
> COL. NO.       1           2          3          4         5        6         7          8         9          10          11
>      ROW  TIME        TIME INTER  SOURCE ID  ANTENNA   SUBARRAY  FREQ ID  I.FAR.ROT  NODE NO.  MBDELAY1   REAL1       IMAG1
>   NUMBER  D/HMS       D/HMS                                               RAD/M**2             SECONDS
>        1  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11         1         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00   1.662E-01  -9.861E-01
>        2  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11         2         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00  -6.582E-01   7.528E-01
>        3  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11         3         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00   9.998E-01   1.732E-02
>        4  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11         4         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00  -6.642E-01  -7.475E-01
>        5  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11         5         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00  -8.225E-01   5.687E-01
>        6  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11         6         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00   8.552E-01   5.183E-01
>        7  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11         7         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00  -5.896E-01   8.077E-01
>        8  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11         8         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00   5.069E-02  -9.987E-01
>        9  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11         9         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00   1.000E+00   0.000E+00
>       10  11:03:01.3  00:03:05.6      11        10         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00   9.975E-01  -7.024E-02
>       11  11:04:34.9  00:00:00.0      11         1         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE
>       12  11:04:34.9  00:00:00.0      11         2         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE
>       13  11:04:34.9  00:00:00.0      11         3         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE
>       14  11:04:34.9  00:00:00.0      11         4         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE
>       15  11:04:34.9  00:00:00.0      11         5         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE
>       16  11:04:34.9  00:00:00.0      11         6         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE
>       17  11:04:34.9  00:00:00.0      11         8         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE
>       18  11:04:34.9  00:00:00.0      11         9         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE
>       19  11:04:34.9  00:00:00.0      11        10         1        1     0.000E+00      0     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE
> Type Q to stop, just hit RETURN to continue                                                                                       
> 
>  localhos  PRTAB(31DEC09)      2     20-APR-2010  10:07:41    Page    2
> COL. NO.      12          13         14        15         16         17          18          19          20         21
>      ROW  DELAY 1     RATE 1     WEIGHT 1   REFANT 1  MBDELAY2   REAL2       IMAG2       DELAY 2     RATE 2     WEIGHT 2
>   NUMBER  SECONDS     SEC/SEC                         SECONDS                            SECONDS     SEC/SEC
>        1   4.421E-09  0.000E+00  8.079E+01      9     0.000E+00  -7.153E-01   6.989E-01  -2.912E-09  0.000E+00  8.184E+01
>        2   1.820E-08  0.000E+00  6.998E+01      9     0.000E+00   9.660E-01   2.585E-01   2.502E-08  0.000E+00  7.327E+01
>        3  -2.462E-08  0.000E+00  8.428E+01      9     0.000E+00   7.817E-01  -6.237E-01   1.442E-08  0.000E+00  8.569E+01
>        4   1.644E-08  0.000E+00  7.161E+01      9     0.000E+00  -9.748E-01  -2.229E-01   1.762E-08  0.000E+00  8.067E+01
>        5   1.140E-08  0.000E+00  7.139E+01      9     0.000E+00  -5.232E-01   8.522E-01  -1.148E-08  0.000E+00  7.164E+01
>        6  -3.234E-08  0.000E+00  7.901E+01      9     0.000E+00   8.904E-01   4.552E-01  -3.732E-08  0.000E+00  8.062E+01
>        7  -9.394E-09  0.000E+00  8.207E+01      9     0.000E+00  -7.973E-01  -6.036E-01   1.579E-08  0.000E+00  8.419E+01
>        8  -2.075E-08  0.000E+00  8.152E+01      9     0.000E+00   9.239E-01   3.826E-01  -3.120E-08  0.000E+00  8.433E+01
>        9   0.000E+00  0.000E+00  6.000E+00      9     0.000E+00   1.000E+00   0.000E+00   0.000E+00  0.000E+00  6.000E+00
>       10   4.812E-08  0.000E+00  7.404E+01      9     0.000E+00   9.965E-01   8.372E-02   5.344E-08  0.000E+00  7.470E+01
>       11     INDE       INDE     0.000E+00      9     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE        INDE       INDE     0.000E+00
>       12     INDE       INDE     0.000E+00      9     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE        INDE       INDE     0.000E+00
>       13     INDE       INDE     6.000E+00      9     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE        INDE       INDE     6.000E+00
>       14     INDE       INDE     0.000E+00      9     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE        INDE       INDE     0.000E+00
>       15     INDE       INDE     0.000E+00      9     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE        INDE       INDE     0.000E+00
>       16     INDE       INDE     0.000E+00      9     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE        INDE       INDE     0.000E+00
>       17     INDE       INDE     0.000E+00      9     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE        INDE       INDE     0.000E+00
>       18     INDE       INDE     0.000E+00      9     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE        INDE       INDE     0.000E+00
>       19     INDE       INDE     0.000E+00      9     0.000E+00     INDE        INDE        INDE       INDE   0.000E+00                                                                                
> 
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> 
>      Half data would be "flagged by gain" while applying this SN table to the data. Could you tell me what's the meaning of INDE and what's the possible reason for generating such a SN table? Why half data is flagged while applying this SN table? Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> Juan Li
> 
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