[daip] Bug in AIPS BLING
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Jun 26 17:06:27 EDT 2015
On 06/25/2015 02:24 PM, Walter Brisken wrote:
>
> Hi Amy and Eric,
>
> I think I found a rather serious problem with the task "BLING".
>
> Immediately upon FITLD I run BLING with all default parameters and:
> calsour='28884''
> solint=2
>
> Note that the source named '28884' is the second entry in the SU table.
>
> This runs to completion. Upon inspecting the output BS table I find
> that for the first processed baseline all of the values in the SOURCE
> column have the correct value (2). All subsequent baselines have the
> SOURCE column set to 1. Other values (timestamps, baseline, stokes,
> ...) all look OK.
>
> Data: /home/parallax/G15MAY19.FITS
>
> I have a temporary work-around (just ignore the source column) but that
> may not be good long term.
>
>
> Let me know if you need any more info...
>
> -Walter
I have found the bug and it will be fixed in tomorrow's MNJ.
The main bug was the fact that the NX table records the center time and
length of a scan and so in real*4 can get the stop time slightly less
than the last data point. The handling of the NX table was odd too so I
have tried to upgrade it.
Eric
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