[evlatests] Report on AH939
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Mon Jul 2 18:00:24 EDT 2007
AH939 was run, modcomp-free, in the morning of July 2. Band = LL,
Mode = '4', BW = 25.
Report on data quality:
Antennas 6, 7, 15, and 22 are erroneously flagged. Antenna 1 is
mostly flagged, also erroneously. (Note to users -- fill the data
twice, once with flags applied, and once with flags off. You can use
the former file to properly flag the beginning of each of the scans of
the latter).
There are no valid data for the first observation -- a calibrator
located far from the target source.
The file is missing its calibrator data for four consecutive hours.
However, this is almost certainly due to them choosing a calibrator on
the opposite side of the zenith from the target source. The antennas
were very likely doing the 'half-rotation' dance, without enough time to
reach the calibrator.
Fortunately for the users, the phase and amplitude stability are
superb, so interpolating the solutions taken at the beginning and end of
the run should suffice.
Antenna 13, IFs B and D are weak -- a known problem. Data should be
flagged.
Otherwise, this run went very well.
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