[daip] CALIB broken?

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Feb 22 12:34:14 EST 2013


Andrew Biggs wrote:
> Hi Eric. CALIB is giving me some very strange results in 31DEC13, for the
> phases only - the amplitudes look okay. I tried running 31DEC12 and that
> does not have the problem. The symptom is that the phases vary much more
> than they should do, the variability increasing the further away the
> antenna is from the reference antenna.
> 
> I enclose a screenshot of the SNPLT output. This shows 3C147 at the
> beginning (which seems unaffected) followed by multiple scans on the phase
> cal which shows a systematic variation on the longer baselines. A simple
> look in VPLOT confirms that these phase variations are bogus and, as I
> say, 31DEC12 gives completely different answers with the same inputs.

I have tried to see what I could have changed that would affect CALIB 
and the answer is essentially nothing - so long as your 31DEC12 is 
reasonably up to date.

Suggestions?

Eric




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