[daip] [Fwd: BS037 data]

[Eric Greisen]

Sara Beck wrote:
> hello eric
>      in the download page i checked only the VLA file (Bs037B_1). when
> i tried fillm, everthing defaulted,  it said:
> 
> : UV data will be written in compressed format
> localh> FILLM1: Shadow flag limit =  2.500E+01 meters.
> localh> FILLM1: Opacity correction in CL table weighted average of weather and
> localh> FILLM1:    season.  Weight for weather =  .50
> localh> FILLM1: Gain curve correction in CL table read from file,
> localh> FILLM1:    with variation as function of antenna and band.
> localh> FILLM1: Opening FITS:BS037B_1
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/08:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: tape file #  1, start date/time = 19970319/08:54:30
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/09:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/10:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/11:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/12:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/13:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/14:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/15:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/16:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: Skipping data at  0/17:00:00
> localh> FILLM1: No data found meeting selection criteria!
> localh> FILLM1: Read         0 visibilities from  1 files
> localh> FILLM1: Appears to have ended successfully
> 
> any ideas very appreciated! --sara
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/30/10, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:
>>>       I am working on high-resolution infrared ionic line maps of the
>>> HII region W33 and searching for radio data to which they can be
>>> compared.  Most of the radio work in that region appears to have been
>>> line studies of the maser source;  according to the NRAO archives,
>>> your BS037 program is one of the very few continuum maps of the HII
>>> region, and the one with the highest spatial resolution.  I didn't
>>> find any W33 maps from that program published, so I attempted to
>>> download the BS037 data from the archive.  However, I've consistently
>>> been unable to read it into fillm, I don't know what the problem is.
>>> So I wonder if you have any maps or other display of this data I could
>>> look at? Or, if you have any idea why it won't read into fillm?
>>>          Thank you very much for looking into this matter. I know that
>>> it is difficult to return to a program from so long ago, and I
>>> appreciate any data or advice you could give me.
>> I took a look at the archive and almost all of the files listed for
>> BS0037 are from the VLBA at Q band - very high resolution indeed.  There
>> is one VLA file from U band.  Are you referring only to that one for
>> which FILLM would be suitable?  The others are all in FITS-IDI format
>> and require FITLD and a full VLB-style data reduction.
>>
>> Eric Greisen
>>

Try the task PRTTP on the file.  It does not say much but it did say one 
very useful thing - subarray 2.  Set CPARM(6)=2 in FILLM and it will 
load the data.

Cheers,

Eric Greisen