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Modifying Visibility Datasets

  The tasks uvedit   allows you to apply some specific sorts of corrections or modifications to your visibility dataset. For example, there may be a clock error that needs fixing, or the antenna coordinates were wrong so that u and v need to be recomputed, or the phase centre was wrong requiring a phase rotation and u and v

recomputation. Note that any data not selected are copied to the output dataset unchanged.

The following example changes the RA phase centre by 10 seconds of time and also corrects a delay error of -3 ns on antenna 2 (by adding a phase gradient across the band). uvedit has the option to turn off the recomputation of u and v which might otherwise be done ( options=nouv). This can be useful for say, entering a delay change (which does not need u and v to be recomputed) because MIRIAD does not compute u and v as accurately as the on-line ephemeris routines.


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