[evlatests] A couple of PSum, PDif issues
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Thu May 31 17:32:38 EDT 2012
In reviewing a very lovely 2-hour C-band dataset, I find a small
number of undesirable oddities in the PDif values:
1) ea02 has a rapidly oscillating value in PDif in LCP only -- in
both IFs (C and D). The period is about 20 seconds, and the amplitude
is a few percent. The oscillation is not in PSum.
2) ea19 has the same effect as ea02, but in RCP (both A and B).
Similar period, with ~6% pk-pk amplitude. This is not in PSum.
3) ea23 has a highly variable (10%) PSum and PDif in all IFs. The
character of the variations is different in LCP from RCP, but is the
same for all subbands within a single polarization. The is very likely
a real gain effect, as the Tsys is unaffected.
All other antennas gave beautiful switched power data.
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