[evlatests] A curiosity with antenna 12
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Fri Jun 25 10:08:24 EDT 2010
Michael took a short (27 minute) observation in 2 GHz-wide mode a
couple days ago. Eight full-polarization subbands, each of 128 MHz
width, in each of the AC and BD IFs. In general, beautiful data.
It was noted that antenna 12 had a curiousity -- once every minute,
on all subbands, in all polarizations, the amplitude dropped by about
10% for a single 1-second record. This was the only antenna for which
such a effect was noted. As the script asked for a new scan every
minute, I had assumed the 'drop-down' was a first-record, or perhaps
second-record problem. It's not!
This 'drop-down' is a 2nd-record effect -- the 2nd record of every
scan is low by this much.
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