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ALIAS adverb to alias antenna numbers to one another ANBPL plots and prints uv data converted to antenna based values ANCAL Places antenna-based Tsys and gain corrections in CL table ANTAB Read amplitude calibration information into AIPS ANTNAME A list of antenna (station) names APCAL Apply TY and GC tables to generate an SN table ASTROMET Describes the process of astrometric/geodetic reduction in AIPS BANDPOL specifies polarizations of individual IFs BLING find residual rate and delay on individual baselines BSPRT print BS tables CALIN specifies name of input disk file usually with calibration data CAPLT plots closure amplitude and model from CC file CL2HF Convert CL table to HF table CLCOR applies user-selected corrections to the calibration CL table CLPLT plots closure phase and model from CC file CROSSPOL Procedure to make complex poln. images and beam. CRSFRING Procedure to calibrate cross pol. delay and phase offsets CVEL shifts spectral-line UV data to a given velocity CXPOLN Procedure to make complex poln. images and beam. DFCOR applies user-selected corrections to the calibration CL table DTSIM Generate fake UV data EDITR Interactive baseline-oriented visibility editor using the TV FRING fringe fit data to determine antenna calibration, delay, rate FRMAP Task to build a map using fringe rate spectra FRPLT Task to plot fringe rate spectra FXAVG Procedure to enable VLBA delay de-correlation corrections FXPOL Corrects VLBA polarization assignments HF2SV convert HF tables from FRING/MBDLY to form used by Calc/Solve HFPRT write HF tables from CL2HF HLPIBLED Interactive Baseline based visibility Editor - internal help HLPSCIMG Cleaning tasks - internal help HLPSCMAP Cleaning tasks - internal help HYB RUN to set parameters for HYBRID (CALIB/MX) self-cal imaging IBLED Interactive BaseLine based visibility EDitor KRING fringe fit data to determine antenna calibration, delay, rate M3TAR translate Haystack MKIII VLBI format "A" TAR's into AIPS MATCH changes antenna, source, FQ numbers to match a data set MBDLY Fits multiband delays from IF phases, updates SN table MERGECAL Procedure to merge calibration records after concatenation MK3IN translate Haystack MKIII VLBI format "A" tapes into AIPS MK3TX extract text files from a MKIII VLBI archive tape OBPLT Plot columns of an OB table. PCCOR Corrects phases using PCAL tones data from PC table PCLOD Reads ascii file containing pulse-cal info to PC table. PHSLIMIT gives a phase value in degrees POLSN Make a SN table from cross polarized fringe fit RESEQ Renumber antennas RLDLY fringe fit data to determine antenna R-L delay difference SEARCH Ordered list of antennas for fring searches SNEDT Interactive SN/CL/TY/SY table editor using the TV TAU0 Opacities by antenna number TECOR Calculate ionospheric delay and Faraday rotation corrections TFILE sorts and edits MkIII correlator UNIX-based A-file. TRECVR Receiver temperatures by polarization and antenna UVPOL modifies UV data to make complex image and beam VBCAL Scale visibility amplitudes by antenna based constants VBGLU Glues together data from multiple passes thru the VLBA corr. VBMRG Merge VLBI data, eliminate duplicate correlations VLASUMM Plots selected contents of SN or CL files VLBAARCH Procedure to archive VLBA correlator data VLBACALA applies a-priori amplitude corrections to VLBA data VLBACPOL Procedure to calibrate cross-polarization delays VLBACRPL Plots crosscorrelations VLBAEOPS Corrects Earth orientation parameters VLBAFIX Procedure that fixes VLBA data, if necessary VLBAFPOL Checks and corrects polarization labels for VLBA data VLBAFQS Copies different FQIDS to separate files VLBAFRGP Fringe fit phase referenced data and apply calibration VLBAFRNG Fringe fit data and apply calibration VLBAIT Procedure to read and process VLBA data (Phil Diamond) VLBAKRGP Fringe fit phase referenced data and apply calibration VLBAKRNG Fringe fit data and apply calibration VLBALOAD Loads VLBA data VLBAMCAL Merges redundant calibration data VLBAMPCL Calculates and applies manual instrumental phase calibration VLBAPANG Corrects for parallactic angle VLBAPCOR Calculates and applies instrumental phase calibration VLBAPIPE applies amplitude and phase calibration procs to VLBA data VLBASNPL Plots selected contents of SN or CL files VLBASRT Sorts VLBA data, if necessary VLBASUBS looks for subarrays in VLBA data VLBASUMM Prints a summary of a VLBI experiment VLBATECR Calculate ionospheric delay and Faraday rotation corrections VLBAUTIL Procedures to simplify the reduction of VLBA data VLBIN Task to read VLBI data from an NRAO/MPI MkII correlator VLBINPRM Control parameters to read data from NRAO/MPI MkII correlators VLOG Pre-process external VLBA calibration files VPLOT plots uv data and model from CC file WEIGHTIT Controls modification of weights before gain/fringe solutions