Calibrator Database
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:09 pm
We are aware that the current calibrator database has a number of issues, and hasn't been updated for some time for most sources.
There are several reasons for this:
There are several reasons for this:
- we don't often observe calibrators at cm wavelengths in the calibrator project C007
- I am holding off calibration of mm observations until the Uranus flux calibration issues are sorted out (which is my main focus now)
- I am also developing a new calibrator database that will use all available observations of calibrators during normal science projects as well, which should allow the database to be kept up-to-date more reliably and automatically than is currently possible, so I am loathe to spend too much time on the old database before its imminent obsolescence