[evlatests] correlator fault?
Ray Ferraro
rferraro at nrao.edu
Fri Aug 3 13:01:31 EDT 2007
Yes, that's probably what I am going to do. I'm just waiting for a
period of time when the array is in a stable continuum observation so
that I can look things over and have the operators check something for
me. Thank.
Ray
Ken Sowinski wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Claire Chandler wrote:
>
>> I have seen a bi-stable phase state, with phases flipping 180 degrees on
>> alternate integrations, on baseline 5-23. It occurs in multiple datasets
>> recently, at all frequency bands. I think it must be a correlator
>> problem.
>
> There is definitely a problem with 5-23 IF A right now.
> I have not examined many baselines, but 1-23 and 1-5 both
> look normal. It is likely a sampler problem, but I can't
> explain why other baselines to antenna 5 are not affected.
>
> Looking at 'rawish' data from the correlator it looks like
> 5Acos*5Acos is sometimes not very stable. Let's replace
> the sampler and see what happens.
>
>
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