VS05J1 Results
Submitted checklist.txt and checklist.tex is also available
  [Summary | AIPS | Difmap ]
Analyst: Richard Dodson
Date Prepared: 11-07-2004
 

Summary
 
Observation code : VS05J1    AIPS Version : 31DEC00   
Date of Observation : 2002/157    Difmap Version : 2.4a 
Source Name : J1041+0610    vsop_difmap used : No 
Calibration Source(s) : J0811+01         
Ground telescopes : UZ HO  Model Fitted to data : Yes 
Tracking Station(s) : UZ    Image made : Yes 
Correlator : Mitaka         

 
Abstract
very poor solution -- delays/rate fitted polynomially and then in a small window. Two components, equal in strength.
Model
Flux (Jy)
Radius (mas)
Theta (deg)
Major (mas)
Axial ratio
Phi (deg)
TB (10^12 K)
0.398477 0.0135171 -116.017 0.193191 1.00000 0.00000 0.5210
0.317696 1.60196 157.057 0.882784 0.326265 -1.00752 0.0610
(*) Quoted Brightness temperatures assume Gaussian components and are in the local (z=0) frame.



AIPS Data Reduction Notes
 
Task
Adverbs
CL
in
SN
in
CL
out
SN
out
Comments
FITLD clint = 0.25
digicor = -1
delcorr = -1
 
 
 
 
 
INDXR cparm = 0, 0, 0.25;
 
 
 
 
ANTAB infile='antab.txt'
 
 
 
 
 
ACCOR solint 5
 
 
 
Sure? It looks like 10! 
APCAL
 
 
 
 
CLCAL refant=1;
1,2 
2,3 
 
Amplitude calibration solutions applied. Usada as ref 
FRING docalib = 2; dparm 1,200,200,0,1,0;aparm(7)=0.1;solint
   5,10,15
 
 
3,4,5 
10 minutes is best 
SNEDT parm 0 0 0.5 0.5 0 0 0 5
    5 0;interpol 'mwf';doblank
   1
bparm 0; smoty 'vlbi'
 
 
Curvature of VSOP solutions make smoothing hard. 
CLCAL refant=1;interpol 'poly';intpar
   4 0
inp
 
 
CLCOR opcode 'gain';antenna 0;clcorprm
   1.13,0
 
 
 
FRING docalib = 1; dparm 1,50,50,0,5,0;aparm(7)=0.5;solint
   10
 
 
 
SNEDT
 
 
 
SNSMO bparm 0 0.5 0.5 0;cparm 0
 
 
 
CLCAL interpol 'ambg';intpar 0
 
Still not very good, but my best effort 
CLCOR opcode 'gain';antenna 0;clcorprm
   1/sqrt(1.13),0
 
 
Correction correction 
CLCAL refant=1;interpol 'poly';intpar
   4 0
 
Try all methods 
SNEDT
 
 
11 
Clean up a good solution. PLV #1. Deleted! 
CLCAL intp 10;interp
   'poly'/'ambg'/'cube'
11 
 
Try all methods. PLV #2-#6; Selected poly 
FRING dparm 2,20,20,0,5,0;solint 10
 
 
12 
 
SNSMO cparm 0 0.5 0.5 0;bparm 0
   0 1/2 1/6
 
12 
 
13 
 
CLCAL interp 'ambg'/'cube'
13 
 
 
SNSMO cparm 0;bparm 0 0 1/2 1/6
 
12 
 
14 
 
FRING dparm 2,20,20,0,5,0;solint 5
 
 
15 
 
SNSMO cparm 0;bparm 0 0 1/6 1/2
 
15 
 
16,17 
 
CLCAL interp 'cube'/'ambg'
16 
 
 
FRING dparm 2,400,400,0,5,0;solint
   5
 
 
17 
Another try 
SNEDT
 
17 
 
18 
 
CLCAL interp 'cube'/'ambg'
5,9 
18,19 
9,10 
 
 
CALIB solint 5
 
 
19 
Can't get a good fix on the phases, ended up flagging most 
SPLIT aparm(1)=2 0;
10 
 
 
 
Av within IF 
FITTP
 
 
 
 
Data written out for analysis in Difmap 

AIPS Input Files
Comments
No J0811+01 in Hobart data?

AIPS Output Files
PRTAN.LIS
LISTR.LIS
DTSUM_0.LIS
DTSUM_1.LIS
VPLOT.PS
POSSM.PS
UVPLT_UV.PS
UVPLT_UVD.PS
UVPLT_UVPA.PS
SN_ACCOR_AMP_1.PS
SN_ACCOR_AMP_2.PS
SN_APCAL_AMP_2.PS
SN_APCAL_AMP_1.PS
SN_FRING01_DEL_1.PS
SN_FRING01_DEL_2.PS
SN_FRING01_RAT_1.PS
SN_FRING01_RAT_2.PS
SN_FRING01_SNR_1.PS
SN_FRING01_SNR_2.PS
SN_CALIB_DEL_1.PS
SN_CALIB_DEL_2.PS
SN_CALIB_RAT_1.PS
SN_CALIB_RAT_2.PS
SN_CALIB_SNR_1.PS
SN_CALIB_SNR_2.PS
SN_CALIB_PHA_1.PS
SN_CALIB_PHA_2.PS
SN_FRING02_DEL_1.PS
SN_FRING02_DEL_2.PS
SN_FRING02_RAT_1.PS
SN_FRING02_RAT_2.PS
SN_FRING02_SNR_1.PS
SN_FRING02_SNR_2.PS



Difmap Data Reduction Notes
Phase selfcal applied? Yes
Global amplitude selfcal (gscal) applied? No
Amplitude selfcal on non-global timescales used? Yes
Modelfit made and saved? Yes
Image Made and saved? Yes
Comments on Difmap processing
Much flagging, but pretty happy with the results. A more believable model of the source, but matches in that the 2nd component is to the S.

Image
Ampl, Phase vs (u,v) Distance
PS (34 kb)
JPEG (47 kb)
Ampl, Phase vs Time
PS (87 kb)
JPEG 1, 2
(u,v) Coverage
PS (17 kb)
JPEG (27 kb)
Closure Phase vs Time
PS (46 kb)
JPEG 1
Clean Image
PS (29 kb)
JPEG (67 kb)
Modelfit
Ampl, Phase vs (u,v) Distance
PS (34 kb)
JPEG (45 kb)
Ampl, Phase vs Time
PS (87 kb)
JPEG 1, 2
(u,v) Coverage
PS (17 kb)
JPEG (27 kb)
Closure Phase vs Time
PS (46 kb)
JPEG 1
Image with model components
PS (33 kb)
JPEG (38 kb)

More details on the Images and Modelfits are found in this page.

Model
Flux (Jy)
Radius (mas)
Theta (deg)
Major (mas)
Axial ratio
Phi (deg)
TB (10^12 K)
0.398477 0.0135171 -116.017 0.193191 1.00000 0.00000 0.5210
0.317696 1.60196 157.057 0.882784 0.326265 -1.00752 0.0610
(*) Quoted Brightness temperatures assume Gaussian components and are in the local (z=0) frame.



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