[evlatests] Quasi-calibrated visibilities and weights!
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Thu Feb 24 17:16:26 EST 2011
It appears some troubles (most hidden from public view! :)
concerning proper application of the 'switched power' quantities are now
behind us. The raw visibilities and weights offered by BDF2AIPS, after
passing through Eric's latest version of TYAPL, are now in real Jy
(visibilities) and (1/Jy)^2 (weights), as they should be.
One nice advantage of this is that we can quickly find antennas
whose TCals or presumed efficiencies are 'out of line'. On a short test
database taken at noon today, of 3C454.3 at Ka-band, the post-TYAPL
visibilities are mostly near the correct value of 38 Jy, but three
antennas are far away: Antennas 17 and 26 give visibilities which are
much too low, and antenna 14 gives visibilities which are much too
high. For the former, either the listed TCals are too low, or the
presumed antenna efficiency is too high. For the latter, the inverse
applies.
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