Opened 17 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#24 closed task (fixed)

UVFLAG can flag using autocorrelation data

Reported by: VincentMcIntyre Owned by: MarkWieringa
Priority: major Milestone: 12. Stage 4 - available for testing
Component: MIRIAD - CABB branch Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Estimated Number of Hours: 110 Add Hours to Ticket: 0
Billable?: yes Total Hours: 38.0

Description

Add selection and baseline removal options to uvflag to facilitate flagging RFI based on autocorrelation data. Some amount of experimentation with real data will be required to determine the exact approach to take.

See Changes/uvflag

Change History (7)

comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by MarkWieringa

Status: newassigned

Two parts:

  1. Select and identify RFI in auto corr spectra using uvflag
    • May need to take bandpass into account
  2. Write uvacflag to transfer flags from autocorr data to crosscorr data.

comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by VincentMcIntyre

Billable?: unset
Component: progMIRIAD - CABB branch

comment:3 Changed 17 years ago by MarkWieringa

Billable?: set
Estimated Number of Hours: 110

comment:4 Changed 16 years ago by MarkWieringa

Add Hours to Ticket: 36
Total Hours: 036.0

comment:5 Changed 16 years ago by MarkWieringa

Part 2 is complete - autocorr flags can now be transferred to cross correlations using task uvacflag

First impression from some std correlator data with autocorrelations is that this may not be as useful as it sounds. The dynamic range on rfi is much better in the cross corr data, than the auto corr data. So unless we can remove the large 'zero-spacing' baseline using a low order fit it may not help much. More research required using real CABB data to make further progress on this.

comment:6 Changed 16 years ago by MarkWieringa

Add Hours to Ticket: 02
Total Hours: 36.038.0

comment:7 Changed 15 years ago by MarkWieringa

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Turns out the CABB bandpass has a lot of structure, making identification of all but the strongest RFI in the autocorrelations pretty hard. We're probably better off with a combination of online CABB flags for fixed channel problems and the atlod rfiflag option for fixed frequency RFI. The rest is hard labour with a combination of uvflag, blflag, pieflag or tvclip.

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