[evlatests] Efficacy of system flagging
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Fri Apr 8 11:24:05 EDT 2011
I noted yesterday three distinct phenomena in my 6cm data:
1) Slow recovery to full amplitude upon change of band
2) Scans with low -- but not zero -- amplitudes
3) Scans with zero amplitudes.
The system flagging catches two of these three phenomena:
1) All 'slow recoveries' are properly flagged. Surely this is a
subreflector slowness issue.
2) All but one of these 'low amplitude' events are properly
flagged. The single exception was on antenna 27. I offer a guess that
these are subreflector out of position issues...
3) None of the 'zero amplitude' scans was flagged. A bandswitch or
LO issue?
It's also worth noting here that there are numerous instances where
data appear perfectly normal, but have been flagged by the system.
Antennas 7 and 27 seem particularly susceptible to this.
Overall, I'd say that more 'good' data have been flagged as bad than
there are bad data flagged as good (i.e. not flagged at all).
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