[evlatests] VLA archive oddities
Michael Rupen
mrupen at nrao.edu
Fri Jun 29 15:26:39 EDT 2007
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Rick Perley wrote:
> ??? AB1248, when I filled it, shows a code of 'AB124', not 'AL0124'.
> I'm confused ...
AB0124 is what appears on the archive page. I believe the leading zeroes
are deleted by FILLM.
>
> Concerning AL693:
>
> The oddity is due to the observers using two frequencies, with two
> different bandwidths. The odd datapoint noted by Michael is the
> 'cross-product' between them -- change of frequency without change of
> bandwidth (or vice versa). Some snipped of data has been mislabeled.
> It's flagged as bad, and never made it to the output file. No serious
> harm...
>
No harm, as you say, but there should be only one dataset in the archive.
The 2nd is a duplicate of the latter part of the run, after this mislabeled
data.
Michael
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