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Pipeline feedback for experiment RL005. If you have any comments on this experiment please email the address below.
A detailed description of the pipeline output is available.

Last updated: Tue Jun 4 16:40:03 CEST 2013 campbell@jive.nl

General Comments. ( Brief data summary and scan listing )
RL005 had 7 good stations, 8 16MHz IFs, 2 polarizations, 128 frequency points per IF/pol, and 1s integrations. Considerably more information is included in the experiment's cover letter on the standard-plots portion of the EVN Archive. In the pipelining, the target sources were treated as phase-reference targets and were not separately fringe-fit. The SOLINT was set automatically to a value commensurate with a typical reference-source scan (~120s) Ef, and then Wb, and then Tr were used as the reference stations (Ef missed IF8 until 1317, Wb was out of HA range until 1200, Tr seemed the 3rd-most sensitive station).

The EVN reliability indicator (ERI) for this experiment was ERI = 0.608 . ERI* = 0.660 . The losses include Ef missing IF8 for the first 2.25hr, On missing 50min, Nt missing IF7-8/RCP fringes, and Jb entirely (if not discounting Jb, the ERI would have been 0.862. The ERI also includes loss of the Iridium-affected portion of IF2 (as flagged in the pipeline), which ERI* does not count (i.e., treating it as "weather" -- not discounting Jb would have left the ERI* at 0.935).

Plots of the autocorrelations
Comments.
Each scan plotted separately, all stations.

plots of the uncalibrated amplitude and phase against time
Comments.
Full-experiment for Ef-* baselines, no calibration applied. A 2 minute plot-averaging was used.

Plots of the uncalibrated amplitude and phase against frequency channel
Comments.
Scalar averaged Ef-* baselines, each scan plotted separately. No calibration applied yet.

The uncalibrated amplitude and phase of the crosshand correlations against frequency channel (not available)
Comments.

TSYS against time
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TY1 table, each IF/pol on a separate plot. The extra power seen by the individual stations towards the Crab nebula is evident (follows through to the GAIN and SENS plots).

Telescope sensitivities from the a priori TSYS and Gain curves (the square of this number gives the antenna noise (SEFD) in Jy - the smaller the better).
Comments.
Gain amplitude from CL2 table.

Fringe-fit phase solutions (including Parallactic Angle correction).
Comments.
CL3 station phase solutions -- CL3 = CL2+SN2, thus also includes the initial amplitude/parallactic angle calibration from CL2 and the fringe solutions from SN2.

Fringe-fit delay solutions
Comments.
SN2 station delay solutions for the fringed sources, each IF/pol on a separate plot. Outliers in Nt IF2/LCP. Discontinuities at the times of (automatic) reference-station changes.

Fringe-fit rate solutions
Comments.
SN2 station rate solutions.

Telescope bandpasses
Comments.
Bandpass table 1. J0530+1331 was used for bandpass calibration.

Calibrated amplitude and phase against time (a priori amplitude calibration and fringe-fit solutions applied).
Comments.
Full-experiment for Ef-* baselines, calibrated with CL3. The 2-min plot-averaging still applied.

Calibrated amplitude and phase against frequency channel
Comments.
Ef-* baselines calibrated with CL3 and BP1. The amp and phase plots self-scale, not necessarily going down to 0 in the case of the amps.

Naturally weighted dirty map (not useful for bright sources) produced before self-cal of:
J0530+1331: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
CRAB-PSR: pdf , or FITS .
J0518+2054: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
Comments.
Naturally-weighted dirty maps of the phase-referenced-to sources.

Uniformly weighted dirty map (not useful for bright sources) produced before self-cal of:
J0530+1331: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
CRAB-PSR: pdf , or FITS .
J0518+2054: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
Comments.
Uniformly-weighted dirty maps of the phase-referenced-to sources.

Phase corrections applied to a priori calibrated and fringe-fitted data by self-calibration.
J0530+1331 .
CRAB-PSR (not available) .
J0518+2054 .
Comments.
Plots of post-SPLIT tables SN1 for the sources that have been individually fringed.

Amplitude corrections applied to a priori calibrated and fringe-fitted data by self-calibration.
J0530+1331: pdf , or text file , or statistical summary .
CRAB-PSR: pdf (not available) , or text file (not available) , or statistical summary (not available) .
J0518+2054: pdf , or text file , or statistical summary .
Comments.
As above, but for the post-SPLIT table SN2.

Telescope sensitivities (the total AMP gain applied during both a priori and self calibration; the square of this number gives the antenna noise (SEFD) in Jy).
Comments.
CL4 gain-amp.

Residual closure phase (visibility closure phase with model closure phase subtracted) for:
J0530+1331 .
CRAB-PSR (not available) .
J0518+2054 .
Comments.
Separate files per (fringed) source, showing closure phase plots for all the triangles. Only stokes=I shown.

Calibrated visibilities and the source model of:
J0530+1331 .
CRAB-PSR (not available) .
J0518+2054 .
Comments.
For each (fringed) source, plots of amp/phase on Ef-* baselines, calibrated with (post-SPLIT) table CL3, with a model-line overplotted.

Calibrated visibilities against u,v distance for:
J0530+1331: pdf , or png .
CRAB-PSR: pdf , or png .
J0518+2054: pdf , or png .
Comments.
For each source, a plot of amp vs. |uv| distance. Some egregious outliers on the high-flux side for each of the sources.

u,v coverage for:
J0530+1331: pdf , or png .
CRAB-PSR: pdf , or png .
J0518+2054: pdf , or png .
Comments.
For each source, a plot of the u-v coverage.

Crude maps of sources:
J0530+1331: pdf , or FITS .
CRAB-PSR: pdf , or FITS .
J0518+2054: pdf , or FITS .
Comments.
For each source, a CLEAN map resulting from the automated fringing and self-cal iterations (or phase-referencing) in the pipeline script.