[daip] FITLD broken?
Adam Deller
adeller at nrao.edu
Wed Jun 16 12:11:18 EDT 2010
Hi Amy,
An example can be found at
/home/marathon2/data/1023+0038/bd141a/BD141A_UG_HPOL4IF8MHZ16CH_1.6515GHZ00
Although I suspect any and all VLBA hardware correlator data is
probably affected.
Cheers,
Adam
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Amy Mioduszewski <amiodusz at nrao.edu> wrote:
> Yea, Eric made some changes. Point me at the data you are using. Although
> I cannot promise too much since I am taking Thurs/Friday off.
>
> Amy
>
> Adam Deller wrote:
>>
>> Hi Amy,
>>
>> Running from version 'NEW' works. Running from 'TST' does not. I
>> notice they have different adverbs, so obviously some code surgery has
>> been done somewhere.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adam
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Amy Mioduszewski <amiodusz at nrao.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ack, and Eric isn't here. Can you test it in version 'new'?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Amy
>>>
>>> Adam Deller wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> There is something very strange going on with FITLD for VLBA data in
>>>> AIPS - it is scrambling the SU table for some files (but not all). I
>>>> have checked out this particular file (you can see it at
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /home/marathon2/data/1023+0038/bd141a/BD141A_UG_HPOL4IF8MHZ16CH_1.6515GHZ00)
>>>> using fv and see a sensible looking SU table. However, as soon as I
>>>> load it into AIPS with FITLD the SU table reads:
>>>>
>>>> 1 5.0000000000D+05 1.4176255806D+02 3.9039125519D+01
>>>> 2.0000000000D+03 1.0792773795D+02 4.5395855014D+01
>>>> 2 5.0000000000D+05 1.5612327792D+02 -8.8208229444D-01
>>>> 2.0000000000D+03 1.3016422419D+02 7.9956464878D+00
>>>> 3 5.0000000000D+05 1.5591154583D+02 4.0463333333D-01
>>>> 2.0000000000D+03 1.2979993496D+02 9.2488222431D+00
>>>> 4 5.0000000000D+05 1.5271527786D+02 -2.0054371833D+00
>>>> 2.0000000000D+03 1.2689149360D+02 6.4704735040D+00
>>>>
>>>> where the columns are channel bandwidth, RA epoch (deg), Dec epoch
>>>> (deg), Epoch (years), RA apparent (deg) and Dec apparent (deg). You
>>>> can see that the apparent source positions have changed by many
>>>> degrees - something is amiss. I tried running FITLD from 31DEC09 but
>>>> got the same result. This is data from the hardware correlator from
>>>> late 2008.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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