[daip] Pbcor

Marina Kounkel mkounkel at umich.edu
Thu Jan 17 23:31:12 EST 2013


The data were loaded with bdf2aips.

I'm really not seeing anything with gethead at all, neither in the console
nor in the message window. Puthead does appear work properly though, I
think.

Marina


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:

> On 1/17/2013 9:00 PM, Marina Kounkel wrote:
>
>> This is EVLA data observed July and August 2011 in three epochs.
>>
>> None of the keywords for GETHEAD that I tried return anything. Not even
>> something as simple as IMNAME, not to mention OBSRA or OBSDEC. This works
>> on neither the original UV file nor on IBM/ICL images.
>>
>> Interestingly enough, though, if I use IMHEADER in UV image, then there
>> is this:
>> RA           1    00 00 00.000 1.00       3600.000    0.00
>> DEC          1    00 00 00.000 1.00       3600.000    0.00
>>
>> Same thing in the quadrant produced by IMAGR lists actual ra and dec for
>> the central pixel of each quadrant.
>>
>> When these data were worked on this summer, there was no problem in this
>> regard, whether it was by default and something has changed since then, or
>> through some sort of command that was forgotten to be recorded.
>>
>>
> Did you load these data with BDF2AIPS or through the archive?
>
> I am suspecting that we now have a problem with the pointing position
> - my latest data came through BDF2AIPS and the new-format SU file lists 0.0
> for the pointing position.
>
> GETHEAD should work fine:
>    keyw='crval1'; geth;
> should show the RA in degrees at the reference pixel in KEYVAL.
>
> You can do PUTHEAD for OBSRA and OBSDEC (both in degrees).
>
> Multi-source UV data shows what you list above in the UV header since
> in fact multiple RAs and Decs are in the file.  Single-source UV data will
> have the correct RA and Dec in the header and should have the OBS position
> in the header too.  I think there is a bug for me to fix here - but you
> need
> to do the work-around of putting the obs position in each header.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
>
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