[evlatests] Cyg A Flux at P-band
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Wed Aug 14 15:44:44 EDT 2013
Finally, I compare the Baars et al. flux density for the standard
calibrator 3C405 (Cygnus A) against what the test data from yesterday
suggest, using the 'Scaife and Heald' values for 3C147.
There is a major difference. The Baars et al. expressions, for 325
MHz, give 6072 Jy for Cyg A.
Yesterday's data provide an estimate of about 4000 -- 4500 Jy.
This difference isn't due to any gain change issue -- even if the 'PDif
Compression' affected the visibilities (and it's not yet clear that it
does), the effect would only modify the data at the few percent level.
(Inspection of the PDif data for this test data show the median
compression is less than 5%).
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