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

[Walter Brisken]

It sounds like increasing it to 10 should be OK too.  Is that correct?

-W

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Eric Greisen wrote:

> 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
>
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