[daip] Apparent position in FITLD

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Mon Jun 21 14:35:27 EDT 2010


Andreas Brunthaler wrote:
> Dear Eric,
> 
> today I noticed a problem with FITLD. When I read in VLBA data from the 
> *old* hardware correlator with FITLD in version 31DEC10, I get APPARENT 
> positions which are completely wrong (see su_31DEC10.txt). However, if I 
> use the 31DEC09 version, I get the correct values (see su_31DEC09.txt).
> 
> I tried this with a few different datasets, and always get the same result.
> 
> Data correlated with DiFX seems to be fine with both versions.

The problem arises with data sets partly processed by the VLBA pipeline 
and written to the archive with FITAB.  The source table in those was 
processed before the observing data was known.  I have fixed the call to 
set the apparent positions to come after all is known instead.

Tomorrow's MNJ will fix this.

Eric Greisen




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