[evlatests] Frequency Tuning at L-band
Barry Clark
bclark at nrao.edu
Wed Oct 7 11:22:29 EDT 2009
Just to clarify - the signed sum of LOs, which appears in your observe
script, appears in the center of channel zero, which is the first
channel in your dataset.
Rick Perley wrote:
> Michael et al. arranged to observe our 'standard L-band interferors'
> with 125 kHz resolution.
>
> He provided me the correct tuning values, stating that these
> corresponded to the bottom edge of the first spectral channel.
>
> With this, I find that all the standard interferors are located
> exactly 188 kHz too high (that is, 1.5 channels).
>
> If, for some reason, the canonical frequencies correspond to the
> midpoint of the lowest channel, then all interferors are 125 kHz -- or
> one full channel -- too high.
>
> Note that in the earlier experiment, with 500 kHz resolution, the
> offset was 250 kHz -- one/half of one channel (using the interpretation
> that the sub-band frequency listed corresponds to the center of the
> first channel).
>
>
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