Lbw cal values measured 23feb06

Links to SECTIONS:
Why the cals were remeasured.
Measuring the high correlated cal using blank sky and absorber
Measuring the other cals on blank sky relative to the high correlated cal.

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Why the cals were remeasured.

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Measuring the high correlated cal using sky and absorber: (top)

    The temperatures used in the computation were:
 

Tabsorber	302 K
Tsky	5 K
Treceiver	from test shack feb03
Tscattered	15 K

    The band 1120 to 1720 Mhz was covered 9 times on absorber and 27 times on sky. The ratio (CalOn-CalOff)/CallOff was then computed for the data. Each spectra of 600 Mhz (6144 points) was then fit to an 8th order harmonic and 1st order polynomial (the order was chosen to include the ripples in the caldefl/Tsys spectra). The fit was iterated throwing out points whose residuals were greater than 3 sigma . Whenever a point was excluded, 5 points adjacent to the fit were also excluded .

    After examing the fits,  3 passes in polB (while on absorber) were excluded because of jumps in the 1320 to 1420 Mhz band.  When on sky, 3 strips in pol A and 7 strips in polB (out of the 27) were exlcuded. This was mainly from jumps in 1 single 25 Mhz band near 1280 Mhz.A robust average of the  passes was then computed (iterating and throwing out outliers). The average spectra was then fit with the same function. See reducing the cal data for more info on the reduction.

    The results of the reduction are:

• Fits to the Average CalDeflection/Tsys  (.ps)  (.pdf):  This shows the average Tcal/Tsys data with the fits over plotted in red. The top two plots are on the absorber (polA,polB) while  the bottom two plots are on the sky.  The number of passes through the frequency band used in each average were: polA abs:9, polB abs:6, polA sky: 24, polB sky:20. The units are Tsys (about 30K for sky and 300 K for absorber). The fitRms is computed for the fraction of the spectra used in fitting. The rms and fraction of spectrum used are printed on each plot.  The radiometer equation should give:
rms=sqrt(2ratio)./sqrt(25e6bw/256chan*3secs*9loops*2hanning)=.0006
The absorber fits match this. The sky fits are about 5 time larger. This is because the fits are not fitting the 1 Mhz standing wave from the dish. This is ok since that ripple should not be in the cal value anyway. You can also see that the radar 1240/1260 still gets in through even on the absorber.
• The Hcorcal in kelvins (.ps) (.pdf).
• The first two plots show the cal fits in kelvins measured from the Sky, absorber, and the sky, absorber ratio (Y factor). The top plot is polA, the middle plot is polB. The dashed line is the receiver temperature used for calSky. The calAbs and calY agree while the calSky is not so close. The calsky can be shifted up or down by changing the amount of Tscattered. The Trcvr curve will also affect the Calsky the most.
• The bottom plot is the cal In kelvins from the Y factor. The * are spaced every 10 Mhz. PolA is black and polB is red. These are the values that will be used for the cal.
• The major ripple has a period of about 80 Mhz. It is visible in both polarization's (although the level/phase changes a little). It is there on the absorber and the sky so it is not coming from in front of the horn. If it is a reflection in a cable, then it would be about 1.3 meters long (assuming index of refraction=1/.68). Both of these signals are coming from diode 1. The cal measurements using diode 2 also have a ripple.

• CalDeflection/Tsys for the passes (9 on abs, 27 on sky) (.ps)  (.pdf).
• The first page shows on absorber for the 9 passes through the receiver band. The top plot is polA while the bottom plot is polB. The spectra have been offset for plotting purposes. The units are Tsys (on absorber it is about 300K). For polB  the band between 1320 and 1420 Mhz had some jumps (in strips 0,3,5). These strips were not used in the computations. The jumps are over the entire 100 Mhz band. This used 4 correlator boards and 4 digitizers so it is probably not in the correlator. The 1320 to 1420 band is the only 100 Mhz that uses the 1230 to 1470 Mhz filter so this may be part of the problem .
• The second page shows on the sky  for the 27 passes through the receiver band. The top plot is polA while the bottom plot is polB. The spectra have been offset for plotting purposes. The units are Tsys (about 30K on the sky). The dashed lines in the bottom plot show the 100 Mhz boundaries (that were taken separately).  The 25 Mhz band centered as 1280 Mhz is not evenly spaced. This band jumped in both polA and polB (it may have something to do with the strong radar signals in the adjacent bands. There is also a jump in the 100 Mhz band polA for 1420-1520. This strips were excluded from the averages.
• Fits to the CalDeflection/Tsys for the 9/27 passes (.ps) (.pdf). This over plots  the fits to each pass (6144 points covering the 600 Mhz.). You can see the jumps in the data for polB on absorber. The absorber fits vary by more than the Sky fits since deltaTsys is a larger fraction of the cal when you are on absorber. The 1220 to 1320 band varies for polA and polB do to the aerostat radar at 1240/1260.

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Measuring the other cals using sky and the high correlated cal (top)

• hcorcal(on,off)
• hcal(on,off),hxcal(on,off),h90cal(on,off)
• hcorcal(on,off)
• lcorcal(on,off),lcal(on,off),lxcal(on,off),l90cal(on,off)
• hcorcal(on,off)

   The results of the reduction are:

• The average calValues in kelvins and the fits (.ps)  (.pdf):  The 8 passes have been averaged together and then multiplied by the hcorcal fit (in kelvins). There are 14 plots. 7 cals each with polA and polB. The red lines are the fits to the data. The fit rms's are better than 1% over the full band. The only problems appear around the 1250-1290 where the radars occur.

 
• Over plotting all of the cals (in deg K) (.ps) (.pdf).  The top plot is the high cals and the bottom plot is the low cals. The solid lines are polA while the dashed lines are polB. There are two sets of lines that follow each other. That is because the same diode always feeds two types of cals (e.g. diode1 goes to polA for hcorcal and for huncorcal).

• CalDeflectionCalX/calDeflectionHcorcal for the 8 passes (.ps)  (.pdf). There is 1 page for each calType (7 pages). The top plot is polA and the bottom plot is polB. The 8 passes through the freq range are over plotted with an offset. The units for the y axis are TcalHcorcal since each of the cal deflections have been divided by the hcorcal deflection.
• Fits to the CalDeflX/calHcorcalDefl for the 11 passes (.ps) (.pdf). This over plots  the fits to each pass (6144 points covering the 600 Mhz.). These fits include all strips (not all strips were used for the averages).
• Over plotting the new and old cal values (.ps) (.pdf). The solid lines are the new cals. The dash lines are the old cal values. The plots are:
• Top HiCalsPolA: black Diode1 -> polA, Red diode2->polA.
• 2nd HiCalsPolB: black Diode1->polB, Red diode2->polB
• 3rd LoCalsPolA: black Diode1 -> polA, Red diode2->polA.
• 4th LoCalsPolB: black Diode1->polB, Red diode2->polB
The old cal values were for the same diodes before polB calvalue jumped. You can see in the plots the offset of polB from the new to old cals. There is also a change in the high frequency values for polA.

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