GTAC DIAGNOSTIC PACKAGE (GDP) ($ Version 0.09 December 29th, 2009 Author : Jitendra Kodilkar$ )
Detail information about the package and SOP to use it, is as follows : (i) Introduction : The GDP (GTAC data diagnostic package) is a set of diagnostic programs to check the basic health of regular GMRT data. It works on any LTA/B file (right now, only for Indian polar mode), taken during a regular GTAC observation. The package takes a gtaclog number/ltafile-name, and finds out status on flux calibrators (3C) by using the 'mkmatmon' program. After knowing the bad/non- working antennas from this, and the names of the phase-calibrators, it runs 'rantsol' to detect delay jumps\ and bad-baselines by using the scripts 'delayjump.sh' and 'badbase.sh', respectively. At the end it generates a summary of the analysis, giving the problems encountered. In side the gdp package, three mains scripts are being run : (a) matxmon (Author : Santaji Katore) This shows fringe amplitude counts on flux calibrator (3C147|3C286|3C48) for all baselines in a matrix format, upper triangle shows LL (175 MHz) polarization and lower triangle shows RR (130 MHz) Polarization. (b) Delay Jump (Author : Sandeep Sirothia) 'delayjump.sh' script run rantsol and shows delay jump output in pdf format for each antenna with two polarization information (RR and LL). (c) Bad base-lines (Author : Jitendra/Ishwar) 'badbase.sh' script run rantsol on flux-calibrator data, check the residual amplitude gain for baselines. The baselines are declared as a bad if residual amplitude gain (ratio of true visibility/model visibility) for given baseline is either less than 0.3 or greater than 2. (ii) Standard Operating Procedure login : gtaclog, Path : /home/gtaclog/ANALYSIS/gdp Usage : ./gdp [ -o <GTACLOG number> | -f <file-name> ] Other available options are : -r <Reference Antenna > -s <Scan No for MATMON and Badbaselines> -c <chan No> -i <Integration for phase plots> -g <Threshold Gain value for Bad-Baselines> > gdp -o <3508> # This will generate matrix-montor like display using flux # calibrator data. It will then query for bad antenna names. Give Bad antennas names in capital letters XXX [] : E03,W04 # Then it will display the lta header and ask for the names of the calibrators. Specify calibrators list [3C147|3C48|3C286]: 3C|1120 # User will get a phase vs time display for the specified calibrators, which can be used to infer the presence # of phase / delay jumps. If the phase for both channels is jumping or changing, then it is a constant step / # jump. Then user can write a comment for delay jumps. Enter comment about delay jumps [] : No delay jumps # Then it checks for bad baselines using badbase.sh script. finding bad baselines.... Update Summary log [y/n]? y # Final query about updating gtac summary log. Output : (i) For example, 'gdp -o 3508' should create following resultant directories and log files: /home/gtaclog/ANALYSIS/3508 # Directory /home/gtaclog/ANALYSIS/3508/3508.obslog # Gtac observing log /home/gtaclog/ANALYSIS/3508/13efa01_22dec2007.lta.MTX # Gtac observing log /home/gtaclog/ANALYSIS/3508/13efa01_22dec2007.lta.PS # phase plots on calibrators for delay jumps. /home/gtaclog/ANALYSIS/3508/13efa01_22dec2007.lta.BBS # bad-baselines on flux calibrators. (ii) It automatically updates the log file /home/gtaclog/ANALYSIS/GTACSUMMARY.HTML This file can be browsed from http://www.gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in/~gtaclog (iii) OTHER DETAILS * This diagnostic package analysis all ltafiles mentioned in the gtac observing log; the user doesn't need to give any program/ltafile name manually. * This is a beta version which works only for "Indian Polar Mode".