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As with any type of observing, it is always a good idea to run a few calibration
scans at the beginning of, and during, your observing run to make sure that
the telescope and receiver are behaving properly. At Arecibo this is done
by performing a ``spider scan" (a pattern of four scans across an object, each separated
in position angle by 45
) on a standard calibration source. The output of this scan
is automatically displayed on the screen, allowing the observer to asses the current state of
the telescope and chosen receiver.
Continuum sources in the list used for flux density calibration were
selected in an ad-hoc fashion from a variety of places, but primarily
from Kuehr et al (A&AS, 45, 367, 1981), the compendium of linearly
polarized sources by Tabara & Inoue (A&AS, 39, 379, 1980), and an
unpublished list of unconfused calibrator sources prepared from the
NVSS survey by Jim Condon and Qi Feng Yin. For each source, all
reliable flux density measurements from both the literature and web-available
catalogs have been fitted against frequency using the
following spectral form:
The values for
the constants are given in the displayed source list after the word ``flux:". All
sources in the catalog listed as 'good' sources are believed to be
non-variable. Additionally, if the source size is not given, it is
believed to be less than about 15
. It should be
noted, however, that: (a) some of the sources in this catalog are
significantly linearly polarized. If you wish to calibrate on a
polarized source, you should determine in advance which source(s) are
appropriately polarized sources; (b) We cannot guarantee that all
sources are excellent calibrators at all frequencies. For example, you
should bear confusion and source-size considerations in mind when
selecting a calibrator source at any frequency. It is therefore highly
recommended that you observe a few different calibrators. (And if you
do find a source to be a poor calibrator at a given frequency, please
tell us about it, via the ``gui comment" button.)
The frequencies at which the standard spider-scan calibration is done is set by the receiver
chosen. Note that when running the calibration button you cannot change
the board center frequencies, bandwidths, or scan length. The scan length
is set to be six times the half-power beam width,
and the center frequencies and bandwidth are listed
as Table 2.
Table 2:
Calibration Frequencies for Standard Spider Scans
|
|
Center Frequencies/Bandwidth [MHz] |
Receiver |
HPBW |
Board 0 |
Board 1 |
Board 2 |
Board 4 |
327 |
15![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
326/25 |
326/1.563 |
326/0.781 |
|
430 |
12![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
430/25 |
430/12.5 |
429/6.25 |
431/6.25 |
430CH |
10.![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
430.0/12.5 |
430.0/1.563 |
430.0/3.125 |
|
610 |
8.0![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
612.0/6.25 |
612.0/1.563 |
609.75/0.781 |
613.25/0.781 |
lbn |
3.4![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
1300/25 |
1375/25 |
1415/25 |
1500/25 |
lbw |
3.4![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
1175/25 |
1300/25 |
1375/25 |
1415/25 |
lbw |
3.4![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
1415/25 |
1550/25 |
1666/25 |
1610/25 |
sbn |
2.2![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
2380/25 |
|
|
|
sbw |
2.2![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
2212/25 |
2380/25 |
2690/25 |
2850/25 |
cb |
1.0![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
4500/25 |
4860/25 |
5000/25 |
5400/25 |
xb |
0.58![$^\prime$](img10.gif) |
8500/25 |
8800/25 |
9000/25 |
9200/25 |
A typical output from a standard spider-scan calibration is shown in Figure 5.
This information is obtained by running Carl Heiles' Mueller Matrix routines
on the data to correct for instrumental polarization
(described fully in Heiles, et.al. 2001 PASP, preprint, and also available
as AOTM 2000-05, available at http://www.naic.edu/
astro/aotms/performance.htm). The output
is as follows:
- First Line: Source name, date, and starting scan number
- Second Line: Receiver name, board number, and center frequency (in MHz)
- Third Line: Azimuth and zenith angle pointing errors, in arcsec, for the A and B polarizations
- Fourth Line: System and source temperatures
- Fifth Line: Percent by which the source is linearly polarized; Position Angle of
the polarization vector (North through East)
- Sixth Line: Percent by which the source is measured to be circularly polarized
- Seventh Line: The half-power beam width in the azimuth and zenith angle directions (in
)
- Eight Line: Coma intensity and position angle
- Ninth Line: Telescope gain, in K/Jy, determined using the source flux density at the observing frequency
- Tenth Line: Efficiency for the Main Beam + First Sidelobe
Note that the data which results from the "calibrate" button goes into a different
file than all other data taken with the gui. That is, rather than going into a
file named ``corfile.
'', it goes into
a files named ``calfile.
''.
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