; BPSMO ;--------------------------------------------------------------- ;! Smooths or interpolates bandpass tables to regular times ;# Task SPECTRAL UV CALIBRATION ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; Copyright (C) 1996-1997 ;; Associated Universities, Inc. Washington DC, USA. ;; by Eric W. Greisen ;; ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or ;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as ;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of ;; the License, or (at your option) any later version. ;; ;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public ;; License along with this program; if not, write to the Free ;; Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, ;; MA 02139, USA. ;; ;; Correspondence concerning AIPS should be addressed as follows: ;; Internet email: aipsmail@nrao.edu. ;; Postal address: AIPS Project Office ;; National Radio Astronomy Observatory ;; 520 Edgemont Road ;; Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA ;----------------------------------------------------------------------- BPSMO LLLLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUU CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC BPSMO Smooths/interpolates bandpass tables to regular times USERID User number INNAME Input UV file name (name) INCLASS Input UV file name (class) INSEQ 0.0 9999.0 Input UV file name (seq. #) INDISK 0.0 9.0 Input UV file disk unit # BPVER Bandpass table version BCHAN -1.0 8192.0 Lowest normalization channel -1 = none, 0 = center 3/4 ECHAN 0.0 8192.0 Highest normalization channel DOWEIGHT -2.0 2.0 Use weights in smoothing? APARM Control information: (1) function type (2) function diameter (hours) (3) function support (hours) (4) Output interval (hours) (5) >0 = vector normalization ---------------------------------------------------------------- BPSMO Type: Task Use: To create a new 'BP' extension file containing a bandpass correction solution for each antenna at each of a set of regularly spaced times or at the input times but with flagged solutions replaced by time-smoothed ones. A variety of interpolation and smoothing options are provided. The amplitude of the solutions may be forced to one over a range of channels with either scalar or vector averaging (or it may be allowed to float). Adverbs: USERID.....Input file user number. 0 => logon user, 32000 => any user. INNAME.....Input UV file name (name). Standard defaults. INCLASS....Input UV file name (class). Standard defaults. INSEQ......Input UV file name (seq. #). 0 => highest. INDISK.....Disk drive # of input UV file. 0 => any. BPVER......Specifies the version of the BP table to be read as input. 0 -> highest. The output version is always highest + 1. BCHAN......Lowest channel of a range of channels used to determine the amplitude normalization. 0 => bchan = nchan/8 and echan = (7/8)*nchan (user ECHAN ignored). < 0 => do no normalization ECHAN......Highest channel of a range of channels used to determine the amplitude normalization. NO DEFAULT when BCHAN > 0. DOWEIGHT...> 0 => use the solution weights in the time smoothing; else ignore them. If the solution weights are very variable, but the solutions have real variations with time, then it is best to ignore the weights. If the weights are not greatly different, then using them improves the noise of the smoothed result. DOWEIGHT = 2 or -2 causes the output weights to be computed by noise combinatorial methods, otherwise the data weights are interpolated. If the solutions do not vary rapidly with time, then an averaged solution is more reliable and DOWEIGHT 2 would reflect that. If they do vary with time, then the nearest neighbor gets less reliable (for estimating the BP at the present time) the further away it is in time. DOWEIGHT -1 (or 1) is a partial compensation for this. APARM......Specifies the type of time smoothing to be applied to the bandpass table. APARM(1) = type of smoothing to apply: 0 => Two-point (linear between nearest neighbors) 1 => Hanning (linear) 2 => Gaussian 3 => Boxcar 4 => Sinc (i.e. sin(x)/x) APARM(2) = the "diameter" of the function in hours, i.e. width between first nulls of Hanning triangle and sinc function, FWHM of Gaussian, width of Boxcar 0 => 1 hour. APARM(3) = the diameter over which the smoothing function has value in hours. Defaults: 1, 3, 1, 4 times APARM(2) used when input APARM(3) < net APARM(2). APARM(4) = increment between output bandpass solutions in hours. 0 -> 1 hour. < 0 => the output BP file has the same times as the input and has the same bandpasses, except that IFs or polarizations that were flagged are replaced with ones computed by smoothing using the other APARM parameters. APARM(5) = flag for type of normalization and smoothing. <= 0 => scalar averaging of amplitudes, > 0 => vector averaging. In cases of decent S/N, use scalar. ----------------------------------------------------------------