[daip] DBCON on many files

Walter Brisken wbrisken at lbo.us
Wed Apr 4 21:21:14 EDT 2018


Hi Eric,

DBAPP seems not to be working.  The error I get and the image headers are 
shown below.  Note that I've tried various FQTOL values (including -1), 
and tried multiple inseq / in2seq values from a string of 13 such files on 
disk.  I've also experimented with outname/outclass/outseq being an 
existing file or one that is to be created.  Same error message occurs in 
any case.  The two data files in the example below can be found in:

   /home/parallax/BB388/testfiles

Inputs and error message:

>inp
AIPS 2: DBAPP     appends one or more uv data sets to the output file
AIPS 2: Adverbs     Values                 Comments
AIPS 2: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 2: INNAME     'NEP0002'               Input UV file name (name)
AIPS 2: INCLASS    'V0.1'                  Input UV file name (class)
AIPS 2: INSEQ        10                    Input UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 2: INDISK        5                    Input UV file disk unit #
AIPS 2: IN2SEQ       10                    Upper input file seq. #
AIPS 2: OUTNAME    'NEP0002'               Output UV file name (name)
AIPS 2: OUTCLASS   'V0.1'                  Output UV file name (class)
AIPS 2: OUTSEQ        9                    Output UV file name (seq. #)
AIPS 2: OUTDISK       5                    Output UV file disk unit #.
AIPS 2: FQTOL       100                    > 0 tolerance to not renumber
AIPS 2:                                      FQs of dataset 2 (in kHz)
AIPS 2:                                    -1 => no renumbering.
>go
DBAPP2: Task DBAPP  (release of 31DEC18) begins
DBAPP2: NUMBERS OF POINTS ON AXES DO NOT MATCH
DBAPP2: ERROR AROSE WITH INPUT FILE SEQUENCE NUMBER    10
DBAPP2: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
DBAPP2: parallax     31DEC18 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       0
AIPS 2: Resumes

Image header for first file:

>getn 590
AIPS 2: Got(1)   disk= 5  user= 388   type=UV   NEP0002.V0.1.9
>imh
AIPS 2: Image=NEP0002   (UV)         Filename=NEP0002     .V0.1  .   9
AIPS 2: Telescope=VLBA               Receiver=VLBA
AIPS 2: Observer=BB388K              User #=  388
AIPS 2: Observ. date=13-JAN-2018     Map date=04-APR-2018
AIPS 2: # visibilities     50786     Sort order  TB
AIPS 2: Rand axes: UU-L-SIN  VV-L-SIN  WW-L-SIN  TIME1  SUBARRAY
AIPS 2:            INTTIM  GATEID  ANTENNA1  ANTENNA2  CORR-ID
AIPS 2: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 2: Type    Pixels   Coord value     at Pixel     Coord incr   Rotat
AIPS 2: COMPLEX      3   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 2: STOKES       2  -1.0000000E+00       1.00 -1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 2: FREQ       256   4.7040000E+09       0.53  5.0000000E+05    0.00
AIPS 2: IF           2   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 2: RA           1    17 22 29.729       1.00       3600.000    0.00
AIPS 2: DEC          1    65 50 15.801       1.00       3600.000    0.00
AIPS 2: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 2: Coordinate equinox 2000.00
AIPS 2: Observed RA   17 23 14.138    DEC  65 47 46.18
AIPS 2: Rest freq   4704.000         Vel type: OPTICAL wrt YOU
AIPS 2: Alt ref. value  0.00000E+00  wrt pixel    0.53
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type NX is   1
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type FQ is   1
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type HI is   1
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type WX is   1
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type AN is   1
AIPS 2: Keyword = 'OLDRFQ  '  value =  4.70400000D+09
AIPS 2: Keyword = 'CORRELAT'  value = 'DIFX    '

Image header for the second file:

>getn 591
AIPS 2: Got(1)   disk= 5  user= 388   type=UV   NEP0002.V0.1.10
>imh
AIPS 2: Image=NEP0002   (UV)         Filename=NEP0002     .V0.1  .  10
AIPS 2: Telescope=VLBA               Receiver=VLBA
AIPS 2: Observer=BB388L              User #=  388
AIPS 2: Observ. date=14-JAN-2018     Map date=04-APR-2018
AIPS 2: # visibilities    142953     Sort order  TB
AIPS 2: Rand axes: UU-L-SIN  VV-L-SIN  WW-L-SIN  TIME1  SUBARRAY
AIPS 2:            INTTIM  GATEID  ANTENNA1  ANTENNA2  CORR-ID
AIPS 2: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 2: Type    Pixels   Coord value     at Pixel     Coord incr   Rotat
AIPS 2: COMPLEX      3   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 2: STOKES       2  -1.0000000E+00       1.00 -1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 2: FREQ       256   4.7040000E+09       0.53  5.0000000E+05    0.00
AIPS 2: IF           2   1.0000000E+00       1.00  1.0000000E+00    0.00
AIPS 2: RA           1    17 22 29.729       1.00       3600.000    0.00
AIPS 2: DEC          1    65 50 15.801       1.00       3600.000    0.00
AIPS 2: ----------------------------------------------------------------
AIPS 2: Coordinate equinox 2000.00
AIPS 2: Observed RA   17 23 14.138    DEC  65 47 46.18
AIPS 2: Rest freq   4704.000         Vel type: OPTICAL wrt YOU
AIPS 2: Alt ref. value  0.00000E+00  wrt pixel    0.53
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type NX is   1
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type FQ is   1
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type HI is   1
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type WX is   1
AIPS 2: Maximum version number of extension files of type AN is   1
AIPS 2: Keyword = 'OLDRFQ  '  value =  4.70400000D+09
AIPS 2: Keyword = 'CORRELAT'  value = 'DIFX    '

I'm happy to run more tests of the task as needed.

-W


On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Eric Greisen wrote:

> On 04/02/2018 03:04 PM, Walter Brisken wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Lorant,
>>
>>  I haven't tried DBAPP -- first time I've heard of this.  Unfortunately I
>>  think this won't work as the antenna tables will be very slightly
>>  different due to plate techtonics.  If there is a small tolerance on that
>>  (say 10cm) then it might be OK.  Otherwise this seems like the right
>>  thing to do.
>
> DBCON seems to care at the 1cm level, DBAPP cares ate the 2m level. Should 
> work so long as you do not wish to recompute uvw with UVFIX.
>
> Eric
>
>

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