Non detection and beam elongation issue

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bnorfolk
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Non detection and beam elongation issue

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Hi,

I'm getting a weirdly elongated beam from my reduction, and a corresponding non detection.

The ra and dec for my source is: 05 16 00.4764811920 -09 48 35.394685295

I'm finding this very strange because:
(1) The weather was great (image attached)
(2) The elevation for the majority of the observation was great (image attached)
(3) There wasn't any significant outliers in the amp/phase vs time plots, or the channel vs amp plots

My reduction steps are as follows:
(1) mfcal on the bpcal with int=0.1
(2) gpcopy (1)'s sol onto the phase cal and flux cal
(3) mfcal on the flux cal with int=0.1 and options=nopassol
(4) mfcal on the phase cal with int=0.1 and options=nopassol
(5) gpboot phasecal with flux cal
(6) gpcopy (5)'s sol onto the targets

My images steps are as follows:
(1) invert with imsize=3,3,beam cell=5,5,res sup=$sup options=mfs,double
(2) clean with cutoff=5*rms
(3) restor
and cgdisp to view

Not sure what to look at from here, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Brodie
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Mark.Wieringa
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Re: Non detection and beam elongation issue

Post by Mark.Wieringa »

Hi Brodie,

what is the array configuration?

For East-West arrays, you would expect an elongated beam, 1/sin(dec)~6, so 6 to 1 beam axis ratio.
For Hybrid arrays it should be better.

Cheers,

Mark
bnorfolk
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Re: Non detection and beam elongation issue

Post by bnorfolk »

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply, it was the 6A configuration.

Cheers,
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