The new calibrator database is now available in a preliminary form for users on the internal network only.
To access the web interface, which currently uses the same interface as the old, go to:
http://mentok.atnf.csiro.au:8080/calibrators" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
As you can see it is hosted on my own machine. This machine is also being used to reduce all the data that is going into the database so database access through the web interface may take a few seconds for any particular calibrator.
Notable things:
- from the main page of the web interface, all three sections (distance from coordinate, calibrator name and calibrators in an area) all work as expected, but the flux level specification doesn't do anything yet
- only cm observations have been reduced so far as I still don't trust mm flux calibration
- the fluxes are listed now for the recommended CABB frequencies - no old correlator data is in the database yet
- the calibrator tables always list the most recent flux that has been reduced, although currently the reduction is chugging away through June 2009 data, and is proceeding at the rate of a few weeks to a month per day
- the page for each individual calibrator know also includes the uncertainty on its flux, along with the date and time that measurement was made
- clicking on "Flux History" on the individual calibrator pages will bring up an interactive graph of flux vs time that uses Flash; each flux can be moused-over to see the measured flux, uncertainty and observation date/time
I encourage whomever is interested to use the new database. The interface is rudimentary at the moment, and we are looking for someone to improve it; we had employed Tui Britton for this but she is now flat out with her PhD work. We'd welcome suggestions and assistance!