[evlatests] More on Modcomp-free flagging
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Tue Jun 26 18:53:02 EDT 2007
My test at noon stepped through the bands in the usual (going
upwards in frequency) manner. The transition from X to U band provided
some interesting characteristics of the present flagging.
While at X-band,
* The VLA antennas were flagged as bad (although the data are
fine) 10 seconds before the end of the scan (as defined by the end of
good VLA data).
Then at U-band,
* Unflagged VLA data appeared one second after the last good EVLA
data at X-band. The data, although unflagged were not good.
* Good (and unflagged) VLA data showed up 14 seconds later.
(About right, if the command to change occurred at the end of the X-band
data).
* Eight of the EVLA antennas were correctly flagged. But two --
19 and 21 -- were not. These two antennas are not working at *any*
band, yet the flagger has missed this fact -- even for U-band!
As there are no EVLA U-band antennas, there is no 10-seconds of
flagged, but good, VLA data at the end of the U-band scan. However, the
beginning of the next band's data -- K -- is within one second of the
end of the U-band data. The VLA data in the K-band file are flagged as
good, but are not. As at the other bands, the good data begins about 15
seconds later.
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