Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.astro.expert Subject: tc_vlbi #7 Message-ID: <683@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:18:22 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.683 Posted: Mon Nov 4 15:18:22 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 09:37:29 EST Distribution: net Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 34 From: think!mse%Phobos@CIT-Hamlet.ARPA Date: Sat, 2 Nov 85 14:05:27 PST Topic: vlbi, Entry # 7 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 85 11:03:38 PST From: tjp@phobos Subject: Telescope calibration data To: tc_vlbi >From USA VLBI Network Newsletter 1985-3: "A format for return of calibration data from telescopes ... will be considered ... by Walker, Pearson, and Schilizzi." The Consortium feels that it is important that network antennas provide calibration data (system temperatures, antenna temperatures, and/or gain curves) in a standard machine-readable form. The committee of Walker, Pearson, and Schilizzi has been asked to make a recommendation for this standard format. At present, we are considering a free format (i.e., not fixed columns) with "header" information provided in the form KEYWORD = VALUE and extensive data in tabular form; i.e., something like the format used as input to the Caltech CAL and AIPS VBCAL programs. We may also consider a FITS standard "table" format, however. We would appreciate comments and suggestions on both the contents of the file and its format. Send comments to RCW @ AIPS and TJP @ Phobos; you can also send comments to this teleconference (tc_vlbi @ Phobos) if you would like to see a wider discussion. - Tim Pearson -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,philabs,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls