[evlatests] Ea19, at L-band
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Fri Aug 15 18:22:26 EDT 2014
Something is odd with ea19 at L-band.
The system temperature, as measured by the PSum/PDif ratio claims
to be about 150 K on 3C48. However, the Tsys ratio between Cygnus A and
3C48 is completely normal (4.82), so the sensitivity of the antenna is
fine -- these Tsys values are bogus.
This normally points to a bad value of Tcal. But the value in the
'CD' table is also completely normal -- 1.42K.
So it's acting as if only about 1/4 of the switched noise power is
actually getting into the signal path. (And indeed, the PDif values are
~ 17 millicounts -- at least a factor of four too low). In other words,
the effective Tcal is about 0.35 K.
Can anybody explain what is wrong?
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