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CALIBRATE
OBS\CALIBRATE [SKY|COLD|WVR|ATTENUATORS]
- Starts an atmospheric amplitude calibration. The calibration is
done by measurements on the absorber, on the sky, and optionally on the
internal cold load when argument COLD is given, by moving the receiver
tables and mirrors. An extra attenuation can be inserted in the
receiver 1 when measuring the power on the absorber; this attenuation is
specified by command OBS\SET ATTENUATION. The calibration mode can be
specified by the OBS\SET CALIBRATION command.
In INTERferometric mode, the total power Detectors are used. The
spectral correlator is always tweaked in this procedure.
This command is not available in OPTICAL or TEST modes.
- With argument SKY, only the sky will be measured, unless no
ambient load (absorber) measurement has been obtained recently (i.e.
during the last calibration interval, of duration specified by SET
CALIBRATION INTERVAL); in that case the command is executed like
CALIBRATE with no argument, and a new calibration interval is started.
- With argument WVR, a specific sequence is performed to calibrate
the 22GHz Water Vapour Radiometers. The correlators run an
autocorrelation while the 22GHz radiometers measure their own ambient
load and noise tubes. The actual observing sequence is given in the
command line as a list of observing times (in seconds) and codes
('OFF','NOISE', or 'LOAD'). The default sequence is given by:
CALIBRATE WVR 4 OFF 4 NOISE 4 OFF
Gildas manager
2002-02-04