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bimacalibratertest - Function

	Package	bima
	Module	bimacalibrater

Test bimacalibrater

Synopsis
bimacalibratertest(verbose, modelcaltable, modeldatatable)

Description
bimacalibratertest is a function to test bimacalibrater. It uses datasets in the AIPS++ data repository. The basic strategy of the tests is to fill Miriad datasets (a target and calibrator source) and calibrate them. The resulting calibration table is compared to a fiducial table, and similarly the MODEL_DATA and CORRECTED_DATA columns of the calibrated target dataset are compared to a fiducial dataset. The function returns T if all tests pass, F otherwise. The filling, reaveraging, calibration, and tests take 10 minutes on an unloaded Linux system with a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 processor and a 7200 rpm IDE hard drive (many portions of the function are I/O bound). The function will create a scratch directory in the current directory called bimacalibratertester_work where it will write and manipulate datasets. The datasets used are rather large, and so about 350 MB of disk space is required.

Arguments

verbose	in	Controls the amount of logger output, 0=none, higher numbers=more
		Allowed:	Int >= 0
		Default:	1
modelcaltable	in	Use this table as the fiducial table for comparison with the generated calibration table
		Allowed:	Any valid table name
		Default:	'' (uses table in the data repository)
modeldatatable	in	Use this table as the fiducial table for comparison with the generated MODEL_DATA and CORRECTED_DATA columns
		Allowed:	Any valid table name
		Default:	'' (uses table in the data repository)

Returns
Boolean or fail

Example

- include 'bimacalibrater.g';
- bimacalibratertest();
<Lots of messages regarding filling, reaveraging, calibration, and testing>
T