[daip] AIPS IBLED error

Tsai, An-Li altsai at astro.ncu.edu.tw
Mon Jun 9 05:45:06 EDT 2014


Dear AIPS group,

I am working on GRMT data on AIPS and was running the task 'IBLED'.
But it does not work. I am not sure what is the problem. Could you
please give me some help? The error message and the task parameters
are attached as here,





the error messages are here

ALMAT1> IBLED1: Task IBLED  (release of 31DEC13) begins
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Copying selected data to cataloged file
ALMAT1> IBLED1: UVGET: Using flag table version   2 to edit data
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Create GMRT242_0618.IBLEDR.   1 (UV)  on disk  1  cno   54
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Loading data for baseline   1 -   2
ALMAT1> IBLED1: **** Sample separation interval set to  10.0 seconds ****
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Loading data from   0/18:54:18 to   1/00:39:37
ALMAT1> IBLED1: There are   1485 valid vis. points on this baseline
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Redo the data averaging with new interval
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Loading data for baseline   1 -   2
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Loading data from   0/18:54:17 to   1/00:39:37
ALMAT1> IBLED1: There are   1485 valid vis. points on this baseline
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Loading AMPLITUDE
ALMAT1> IBLED1: with Stokes RR chs  71-  71 IFs  1-  1
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Not all data in this frame, NEXT FRAME option displays more
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Displaying pixels      1 to   1079
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Data range   5.763545E-02  1.992658E+01
ALMAT1> IBLED1: YCHRW: BAD X,LX, Y,LY, COUNT =   3220   3387    -38    -12
ALMAT1>         8
ALMAT1> IBLED1: IBFCHS: TV I/O ERROR      2 FROM IMCHAR
ALMAT1> IBLED1: TELEVISION I/O ERROR    2 FROM IBFCHS
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Destroyed  1 extension files of type FC
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Destroyed UV image file: catno=     54 disk= 1
ALMAT1> IBLED1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
ALMAT1> IBLED1: almat1 31DEC13 TST: Cpu=      4.5  Real=      6  IO=      5439



and the parameters I input to IBLED are:


AIPS 1: IBLED     Task to edit data baseline-by-baseline using the TV
AIPS 1: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 1: INNAME     'GMRT242_0618'          Input UV file name (name)
AIPS 1: INCLASS    'UVDATA'                Input UV file name (class)
AIPS 1: INSEQ         1                    Input UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: INDISK        1                    Input UV file disk unit #
AIPS 1: DOCAT         1                    Catalog work file ?
AIPS 1: IN2SEQ        0                    Sequence number of work file
AIPS 1: IN2DISK       0                    Disk on which to write work
AIPS 1:                                    file, 0 => any
AIPS 1: DOHIST       -1                    Record flags in history file
AIPS 1: SOURCES    *all ' '                Source list
AIPS 1: CALCODE    ' '                     Calibrator code '    '=>all
AIPS 1:                                    Source model to plot:
AIPS 1: IN3NAME    ' '                      CLEAN map name (name)
AIPS 1: IN3CLASS   ' '                      CLEAN map name (class)
AIPS 1: IN3SEQ        0                     CLEAN map name (seq. #)
AIPS 1: IN3DISK       0                     CLEAN map disk unit #
AIPS 1: IN3VER        0                    CC file version #
AIPS 1: NMAPS         0                    No. CLEAN map files
AIPS 1: NCOMP      *all 0                  # comps to use for model.
AIPS 1:                                    1 value per field
AIPS 1: FLUX          0                    Lowest CC component used.
AIPS 1: TIMERANG   *all 0                  Time range to include
AIPS 1: STOKES     ' '                     Stokes type to display
AIPS 1: SELBAND      -1                    Bandwidth to select (kHz)
AIPS 1: SELFREQ      -1                    Frequency to select (MHz)
AIPS 1: FREQID        1                    Freq. ID to select.
AIPS 1: BIF           1                    Lowest IF number 0=1
AIPS 1: EIF           1                    Highest IF number
AIPS 1: BCHAN        71                    Lowest channel number 0=>1
AIPS 1: ECHAN        71                    Highest channel number
AIPS 1: ANTENNAS   *all 0                  Antennas to edit.
AIPS 1: BASELINE   *all 0                  Baselines with ANTENNAS
AIPS 1: UVRANGE       0           0        UV range in kilolambda
AIPS 1: SUBARRAY      0                    Subarray, 0 => all
AIPS 1:                                    Cal. info for input:
AIPS 1: DOCALIB      -1                    > 0 calibrate data & weights
AIPS 1:                                    > 99 do NOT calibrate weights
AIPS 1: GAINUSE       0                    CAL (CL or SN) table to apply
AIPS 1: DOPOL        -1                    If >0 correct polarization.
AIPS 1: PDVER        -1                    PD table to apply (DOPOL>0)
AIPS 1: BLVER        -1                    BL table to apply.
AIPS 1: FLAGVER       0                    Flag table version 0 => high
AIPS 1:                                       < 0 no flagging on input
AIPS 1:                                       Used w single-source too
AIPS 1: OUTFGVER      0                    Output FG table version
AIPS 1: DOBAND       -1                    If >0 apply bandpass cal.
AIPS 1:                                    Method used depends on value
AIPS 1:                                    of DOBAND (see HELP file).
AIPS 1: BPVER        -1                    Bandpass table version
AIPS 1: SMOOTH     *all 0                  Smoothing function. See
AIPS 1:                                    HELP SMOOTH for details.
AIPS 1: ** press RETURN for more, enter Q or next line to quit print **
#
AIPS 1:                                    Task enrichment parameters:
AIPS 1: DPARM      *all 0                  (1) 0 => display amplitude
AIPS 1:                                        1 => display phase,
AIPS 1:                                        can change interactively
AIPS 1:                                    (2) if > 0, include
AIPS 1:                                        autocorrelation data
AIPS 1:                                    (3) if > 0 will average IFs
AIPS 1:                                        selected with BIF to EIF
AIPS 1:                                    (4) input data interval in
AIPS 1:                                        secs.  <=0 -> 10
AIPS 1:                                        PLEASE SET 4 & 5 !
AIPS 1:                                    (5) data averaging time in
AIPS 1:                                        secs:  <=0 => >= 10
AIPS 1:                                    (6) If > 1, plot error bars,
AIPS 1:                                        can change interactively
AIPS 1:                                    (7) Min value to plot, can
AIPS 1:                                        be changed interactively.
AIPS 1:                                        0 => use min. in data
AIPS 1:                                    (8) Max value to plot, can
AIPS 1:                                        be changed interactively.
AIPS 1:                                        0 => use max. in data
AIPS 1:                                    (9) If > 1, don't plot whole
AIPS 1:                                        visibility function along
AIPS 1:                                        the top of the screen,
AIPS 1:                                        can change interactively
AIPS 1: BADDISK    *all 0                  Disks to avoid for master and
AIPS 1:                                    scratch files





Thank you.

Best Wishes,


-- 
Dr. An-Li Tsai
Institute of Astronomy, National Central University
No. 300, Jhongda Rd, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 32001, Taiwan
Tel: +886-(0)3-422-7151 ext. 65968
Email: altsai at astro.ncu.edu.tw




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