[evlatests] Last 10 seconds issue
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Tue Jul 3 10:45:05 EDT 2007
It seems that it is always true that at precisely 10 seconds before
the end of a scan, when the following scan is at a different frequency,
the VLA and EVLA become incoherent. The VLA antennas are always flagged
out during the interval, the EVLA antennas are not.
However, it is clear from the data that the VLA-VLA correlations
correctly continue through the interval (so the flagging is incorrect),
while the EVLA-EVLA correlations suddenly change in both ampliutude and
phase at the 10-second mark (so they should be flagged).
Further evidence that the problem is on the EVLA side comes from the
Tsys records. There is no change whatever for all the Tsys values for
the VLA antennas, whereas the EVLA antennas abruptly change Tsys, as if
they had been commanded to a new frequency.
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