Since February 2017,
MRTCAL has replaced
MIRA as the software for
spectral line data calibration (except polarimetry and continuum) at the
30m-Telescope. Slight changes in the calibrated spectra are expected, for
example in form of an improved calibration accuracy at the edges of the
atmospheric windows as result of the narrower calibration bandwidth used
by
MRTCAL (20MHz by default, compared to up to about 1.35GHz for
MIRA). This report demonstrates the practical performances of
MRTCAL by a systematic comparison of observations
calibrated with both softwares.
Keywords: MRTCAL, MIRA, 30m calibration
Related documents: MRTCAL documentation, MIRA documentation, CLASS documentation.