[evlatests] WIDAR baselines, and time offsets
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Tue Jul 7 13:10:18 EDT 2009
I had it right the first time. The image is inverted, in both axes,
about the phase center. This corresponds to flipping the sign of the
visibility phase -- a complex conjugation.
George Moellenbrock wrote:
>
>> 1) My error on the 'conjugation'. Both real and imaginaries have
>> their signs reversed to get an apparent 180 rotation.
>
> NO!! Changing the sign of both real and imaginary (globally) would
> get you a negative image.
>
> If the only problem were a reflected image (i.e., dynamic range ok), then
> the answer is simply to change the sign of the phase for all
> visibilities.
>
> I don't think this is the whole answer because the dynamic range is
> still bad. I think a minority of baselines don't need the phase sign
> change (a sufficient minority that calibration sort-of works), and I
> think it is related to the antenna/baseline sorting....
>
> Michael/Bryan: Is there a way to turn off the deliberate sorting done
> in the CBE?
>
> -George
>
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