[daip] [!7608]: AIPS - ANTAB with multiple subarrays

[Jae-Young Kim]

Jae-Young Kim updated #7608
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ANTAB with multiple subarrays
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           Ticket ID: 7608
                 URL: https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/7608
           Full Name: Jae-Young Kim
               Email: jykim at astro.snu.ac.kr
             Creator: User
          Department: AIPS Data Reduction
       Staff (Owner): -- Unassigned --
                Type: Issue
              Status: Open
            Priority: Default
                 SLA: NRAO E2E
      Template Group: Default
             Created: 16 November 2015 05:19 PM
             Updated: 16 November 2015 05:19 PM
                 Due: 18 November 2015 05:19 PM (2d 0h 0m)
      Resolution Due: 24 November 2015 05:19 PM (8d 0h 0m)



Dear Eric Greisen,

I am currently calibrating a data set with two subarrays.
When I tried to run AIPS ANTAB with subarray=1 or 2 to make TY and GC tables, the task returned an error message like below:

                    VLB100> ANTAB1: Task ANTAB  (release of 31DEC15) begins
                    VLB100> ANTAB1: I CANNOT DO MULTIPLE SUBARRAY DATA
                    VLB100> ANTAB1: USE ANTAB BEFORE USUBA OR DBCON!!!
                    VLB100> ANTAB1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
                    VLB100> ANTAB1: vlb100       31DEC15 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       0

Other people in my group also reported the same errors for other data sets with multiple subarrays.
A tricky solution for this problem was to split the data with UVCOP for subarray 1 and 2, run ANTAB for each of them, and then do DBCON the files or only TACOP corresponding TY and GC tables to the original file.
But is there any simpler way to just load the ANTAB files directly to the original file?
Or could this problem be solved in next AIPS update?

Thank you for your help in advance and best regards,
Jae-Young Kim 

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