[daip] SETJY

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Oct 18 11:25:02 EDT 2013


Andreas Brunthaler wrote:
> Dear Eric,
> 
> I hope you are all back at work now in Socorro. I'm having some problems 
> with the velocity calculation in SETJY. I compared the results I get 
> when using the 31DEC2011 and the 31DEC2013 versions and get different 
> results for the same input parameters.
> 
> I'm using OPTYPE '' and the following information:
> 
> SYSVEL       18
> RESTFREQ   6.668E+09   519200
> VELTYP     'LSR'
> VELDEF     'RADIO'
> APARM       501,0
> 
> Now, If I use the 31DEC2011 version, I get in the SU table:
> 
> 
> COL. NO.            2                18                19
>       ROW      SOURCE            LSRVEL            RESTFREQ
>    NUMBER                        M/SEC             HZ
>         2      G000.31-0.20      1.978371D+05      6.668519D+09
> 
> 
> In the 31DEC2013 version, I get:
> 
> 
> COL. NO.            2                18                19
>       ROW      SOURCE            LSRVEL            RESTFREQ
>    NUMBER                        M/SEC             HZ
>         2      G000.31-0.20      179825.49691      6668519456.0
> 
> 
> If I use OPTYPE = 'VCAL' in the 31DEC2013 version, I get yet another value:
> 
> 
> COL. NO.            2                18                19
>       ROW      SOURCE            LSRVEL            RESTFREQ
>    NUMBER                        M/SEC             HZ
>         2      G000.31-0.20      233796.30089      6668519456.0
> 
> Apart from the different values I also get a different format. Now, if I 
> run CVEL on this, I get shifts of < 1 channel for the 31DEC2011 version 
> (as expected). However, for the 31DEC2013 version, I get shifts of 50 
> channels (using OPTYPE='') and 100 channels (using OPTYPE='VCAL'), which 
> corresponds to the velocity offsets above.
> 
> Any idea where this difference comes from?
> 
> Andreas
> 

This is bizarre - I thought we had tested everything when I did the VCAL 
option for you and all was well.  I suspect that I had better know more 
about this data set - I suspect a TASAV output file would be sufficient 
for testing.

Eric




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