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

[Eric Greisen]

On 11/23/2015 03:28 PM, Walter Brisken wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>
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CLCOR has a limit of 200 groups and 10 rows per group so increasing the 
number of lines from 5 to 6 is no problem.

Eric