mweastwood / TTCal.jl

A calibration routine developed for the OVRO LWA.
http://mweastwood.github.io/TTCal.jl
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make peeling more reliable #28

Open mweastwood opened 9 years ago

mweastwood commented 9 years ago

Peeling is currently very sensitive to unmodeled flux. Especially RFI sitting on the horizon.

mweastwood commented 9 years ago

There appears to be several components to this:

The amplitude-only calibration will help guarantee that you are removing flux from the expected direction on the sky. If each source is allowed a full complex gain calibration, then flux can be removed from almost anywhere. (Edit: this is not useful in practice, what you really want is a prior on the phase of the solution so that it's not too far from zero)

mweastwood commented 8 years ago
mweastwood commented 8 years ago

New idea:

In order to move a source, you need to apply a phase gradient across the array, so dialing up this constraint should put an end to that.