[daip] FITS-IDI files with > 5 days worth of EOPs

[Walter Brisken]

I could have missed it but I don't think I saw a response from this.  Is 
there someone in the AIPS group I should plan to talk to?

-Walter

On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Walter Brisken wrote:

>
> Hi DAIP,
>
> Within the DiFX community we wish to change the way in which we handle EOP 
> values to simplify cases where a single experiment is longer than about 2 
> days.  Currently based on historical hardware correlator behavior we have 
> been restricting the model generation to use only 5 days of EOP values. We 
> would like to allow an arbitrary (or at least large upper limit, maybe 100) 
> EOP values to be used.  A standard cubic spline is used in CALC to evaluate 
> the EOP values at an arbitrary point in time; that won't change.
>
> Will increasing the number of EOP values transmitted to AIPS via FITS-IDI be 
> OK?  Will programs that use the EOP values (I only know of the one that does 
> a correction for bad EOPs) properly cope?
>
> 	Thanks,
>
> 	Walter
>
>