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Last updated: Thu Dec 29 13:21:19 CET 2011 campbell@jive.nl

General Comments. ( Brief data summary and scan listing )
RM007 had 4 stations, 1 2MHz IF, and four polarizations, with 2048 frequency points per IF and 0.5s 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 ref.source J0541 was treated as a phase-ref target from ORIKL1 (otherwise, self-cal was failing on the 1st iteration for J0541). The SOLINT was thus automatically set at a representative length of an ORIKL1 scan. Only one self-cal iteration was done; most sources were failing in the second iteration. Ef, then Ys, were used as the reference stations.

The EVN reliability indicator (ERI) for this experiment was ERI = 1.0 . ERI* = 1.0 . Since this was a ToO, no losses were counted against stations that couldn't observe. Nor from the possible sub-beam pointing issues at Ef nor the concerns Hh had with its pointing.

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

plots of the uncalibrated amplitude and phase against time
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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
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Scalar averaged Ef-* baselines, each scan plotted separately. No calibration applied yet.

The uncalibrated amplitude and phase of the crosshand correlations against frequency channel
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TSYS against time
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TY1 table, each IF/pol on a separate plot.

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).
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Gain amplitude from CL2 table.

Fringe-fit phase solutions (including Parallactic Angle correction).
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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
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SN2 station delay solutions for the fringed sources, each IF/pol on a separate plot. For this experiment, one lag corresponds to 1/4 microsecond of delay. Almost no detections for Hh.

Fringe-fit rate solutions
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SN2 station rate solutions.

Telescope bandpasses
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Bandpass table 1. 3C84, 0420-014, 4C39.25, & 3C296 were used for bandpass calibration.

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

Calibrated amplitude and phase against frequency channel
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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:
NRAO150: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
0528+134: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
ORIKL1: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
3C84: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
J0541-0541: pdf , or FITS .
4C39.25: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
0420-014: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
Comments.
Naturually weighted dirty map of the J0541.

Uniformly weighted dirty map (not useful for bright sources) produced before self-cal of:
NRAO150: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
0528+134: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
ORIKL1: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
3C84: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
J0541-0541: pdf , or FITS .
4C39.25: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
0420-014: pdf (not available) , or FITS (not available) .
Comments.
Uniformly weighted dirty map of the J0541.

Phase corrections applied to a priori calibrated and fringe-fitted data by self-calibration.
NRAO150 .
0528+134 .
ORIKL1 .
3C84 .
J0541-0541 (not available) .
4C39.25 .
0420-014 .
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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.
NRAO150: pdf (not available) , or text file (not available) , or statistical summary (not available) .
0528+134: pdf (not available) , or text file (not available) , or statistical summary (not available) .
ORIKL1: pdf (not available) , or text file (not available) , or statistical summary (not available) .
3C84: pdf (not available) , or text file (not available) , or statistical summary (not available) .
J0541-0541: pdf (not available) , or text file (not available) , or statistical summary (not available) .
4C39.25: pdf (not available) , or text file (not available) , or statistical summary (not available) .
0420-014: pdf , or text file , or statistical summary (not available) .
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:
NRAO150 .
0528+134 .
ORIKL1 .
3C84 .
J0541-0541 (not available) .
4C39.25 .
0420-014 .
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Separate files per (fringed) source, showing closure phase plots for all the triangles (not just Ef-*-*). Only stokes=I shown.

Calibrated visibilities and the source model of:
NRAO150 .
0528+134 .
ORIKL1 .
3C84 .
J0541-0541 (not available) .
4C39.25 .
0420-014 .
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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:
NRAO150: pdf , or png .
0528+134: pdf , or png .
ORIKL1: pdf , or png .
3C84: pdf , or png .
J0541-0541: pdf , or png .
4C39.25: pdf , or png .
0420-014: pdf , or png .
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For each source, a plot of amp vs. |uv| distance.

u,v coverage for:
NRAO150: pdf , or png .
0528+134: pdf , or png .
ORIKL1: pdf , or png .
3C84: pdf , or png .
J0541-0541: pdf , or png .
4C39.25: pdf , or png .
0420-014: pdf , or png .
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For each source, a plot of the u-v coverage.

Crude maps of sources:
NRAO150: pdf , or FITS .
0528+134: pdf , or FITS .
ORIKL1: pdf , or FITS .
3C84: pdf , or FITS .
J0541-0541: pdf , or FITS .
4C39.25: pdf , or FITS .
0420-014: pdf , or FITS .
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For each source, a CLEAN map resulting from the automated fringing and self-cal iterations in the pipeline script.