Description
This function is used to apply position angle calibration for
observations made using circularly polarized feeds. According to the
Measurement Equation formalism, this correction should be applied to a
D (instrumental polarization) calibration table.
If no D calibration is performed (and thus no such table is
available), the correction can be applied to a G table, but it
should NEVER be applied to both, and always applied to a D table
if one is available. An input table must be specified. If no output
table is specified, then the input table will be modified in place.
Specify, as a vector of values, a position angle adjustment (in degrees)
for each spectral window. If only one value is specified, it will be
duplicated to all spectral windows; otherwise, the number of values
specified must match the number of spectral windows. The sign
convention for the position angle adjustment is such that the specified
value is the that which, when added to the position angle implied by the
data, will yield the correct position angle. For example, if G-,
D-, and P-calibrated data for 3c286 suggests a position
angle of 45 degrees, the posangcor value should be -12 degrees as this
will yield the correct position angle of 33 degrees when added. In
general, posangcor equals correct position angle minus observed position
angle.
A future version of this function will have an option to recognize
standard position angle calibrators and determine the correction
automatically.
Example
c:=calibrater('3C273XC1.MS');
c.posangcal(tablein='3C286.dcal', tableout='3C286.dpacal',
posangcor=[-12.0, 54.0]);
c.done();
This example takes an existing calibration table containing D
Jones matrices, and applies a position angle calibration of 45 and 54
degrees to spectral windows 1 & 2, respectively, writing the result
to a new table. The observed position angles for 3C286 must have been
45 and -21 degrees; the corrections specified yield the correct value
of 33 degrees when added to the observed values.
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