[evla-sw-discuss] Amplitudes greater than 1 in TelCal

Bryan Butler bbutler at nrao.edu
Tue Nov 1 17:30:54 EDT 2011


it's still a correlation, and it's not scaled (or at least i *think* 
it's not scaled), so should always be <= 1.0.

	-bryan


Michael Rupen wrote, On 11/1/11 15:29 PM:
> But this is NOT a raw correlation coefficient -- why should it be <=1 ?
>
> Michael
>
>>
>> it should never be > 1.0, since it is a correlation.
>>
>> -bryan
>>
>>
>> Keith Cummings wrote, On 11/1/11 15:02 PM:
>>> Michael caused problems today by running Lsysstart.55866.792821435185
>>> which produced amplitudes greater than 1. TelCal's Antsol routine does
>>> not approve of amplitudes (actually amplitudes squared) greater than 1
>>> or less than 1e-20. If five integrations within a
>>> baseline-baseband-polarization-subband are out-of-range, antsol marks
>>> this data as flagged for both antennas in this baseline
>>> (antenna-baseband-polarization).
>>>
>>> The low side (less than 1e-20) is probably fine. Michael is suggesting
>>> that the high side restriction (greater than 1) might need to be
>>> removed.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> -Keith
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