[daip] USUBA issue.
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Thu Dec 5 11:47:00 EST 2013
Craig Walker wrote:
> I am testing USUBA and APCAL.
>
> I am using a data set that I used before. I deleted all CL and SN
> tables and AN tables 2 and 3.USUBA ran ok. Therefore the fix that
> allowed some antennas to not be there seems to have worked. After
> USUBA, INDXR ran ok. The subarrays show up in a LISTR SCAN listing. I
> tried running VPLOT on each subarray separately, and it looks
> reasonable. Subarray=-1 looks reasonable with many more points than the
> 3 individual subarray. I then tried applying CL 1. That looks ok with
> a specific subarray chosen, but not with subarray=-1. That is probably
> a "feature" and I can sort of imagine why it is there, even though in
> this case, it is not too desirable.
>
> Then the fun started. I ran VLBACALA. The SN table from ACCOR looks
> like it contains all subarrays. But the CL table only contains subarray
> 1, so somewhere in SNSMO and CLCAL, only one subarray was processed. If
> I run VLBACALA separately for each subarray, VLBACALA clearly tries to
> merge the results, but fails.
>
> Also, it looks like APCAL does not process stations that do not have GC
> and/or WX data, so my foreign stations disappear. Thus to really make
> all this work, I have to cobble gain and weather data somehow.
>
> VLBACALA, when dealing with the multiple subarrays, does get confused in
> its messages about the CL tables. My run for subarray 2 claimed at the
> end that CL 5 contained the gain corrections, right after claiming that
> it was trying to merge the results into CL 4. There are only 4 CL
> tables. CL4 is sparsely populated both in that it contains a smallish
> number of scans - only subarray 2 - and the points are spaced widely in
> time - more like the SN table than something influenced by the CL table.
>
> I've run out of time today. But the conclusion seems to be the USUBA
> works with the incompletely populated AN table (loaded with VLBA
> numbering with 2 antennas missing). And APCAL runs on those data. But
> VLBACALA is not really working for the subarray 0 case.
I tested VLBACALA not by running it directly but by doing each step in
it one at a time (after my revised USUBA). The CL table continues to
have all sources, antennas, and subarrays until APCAL. At that point,
the fact that only antenna 1 has TY values causes all other antennas to
be omitted from the SN table. APCAL is written to do only 1 subarray
and so explains the subarray=0 -> 1 comment in the help file. I think
that I can make it loop over subarrays (in the new TST only).
Eric Greisen
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