0915 Arrive. Plan for the morning is to get some interesting sub-cubes together, now that I understand the data more. Also need to go to the bank, and a tour of the GBT at 1:30p. 0920 Drat, the data didn't get copied properly last night... i have to recopy it now 0945 files copied. beginning to load/view them (only takes about 40 seconds to load now, from local disk!) sub-cube 1: extract('GASS_WGTMED','19:20:0','-13d43m0s','J2000',100,100) 1000 well, that command seemed ok, but it got an error and deleted all my local copies of the cubes, so I'm re-copying. perhaps 100x100 went off the edge of the image? 1025 All re-copied, have been looking up LMC/SMC/MS coordinates to know where to look. retrying extract: - extract('GASS_WGTMED_001','19:20:0','-13d43m0s','J2000',50,50) (took about 4 minutes to run) this one worked, but deleted the original 001 file. need to figure out how to run extract without overwriting files. 1100 attempt: - extract('GASS_WGTMED_a','04:37:0','-67d11m0s','J2000',50,50) (took less than a minute. no errors reported) 3 degrees in DEC, 35 minutes in RA now trying: - extract('GASS_WGTMED_b','04:37:0','-67d11m0s','J2000',100,100) (took about 90 seconds to extract, about 3 minutes to display) 1115 call from them upstairs, head up to Pisano's office to look through cubes. talk about data quality/etc/etc 1200 lunch 1230 back from lunch, look through more cubes. found strange lines that move through the data at high positive velocities - no explanation yet plan for me to do: make sub-cubes from data. some should be on the magellanic stream, some should be in "boring" regions to check spectrum quality/etc. just ~40x40 cubes extracted for now long(ish) term plan - get iras(IR) data comparable to radio data. got some of this data from Lockman today: /home/scratch/sjanowie/ SFDdata - FLSdata - 1620 finally back to the dungeon, but first taking care of paperwork upstairs and stopping by the bank 1640 back from attempted bank trip - closed at 4. will go tomorrow. time to extract sub-cubes - NEED these for tomorrow. picking sub-cubes: something funky around 2h -60d...grabbing 40x40 in J2000 --> c.fits - interesting peaks around ~125 and ~200 km/s ----------- interesting blob near 17h12m -69d0m ...grabbing 40x40 in J2000 --> d.fits attempt to grab same region in Galactic instead: --> dgal.fits ----------- same region (17h12m -69d0m) except with 80x80 instead, in J2000 --> e.fits and in galactic coords: --> egal.fits ALSO - troublesome strip passes through around 130km/s ALSO - big thing happens around 182-184 km/s ----------- hoping for blank-ish around 20h -45d...pulling 80x80 in J2000 --> f.fits and in galactic --> fgal.fits ALSO -stripe moves through (moving in DEC) near 102km/s {{ SEE COMPLETE SUB-CUBE LIST IN SAME FOLDER -- GASS_WGTMED_subcubes }} 1755 cool error message from AIPS++ in Glish: SEVERE: Cripes - I dunno what data you gave me mate... ...however that also meant it wouldn't display spectra 1800 getting ready to leave... TO DO: check in sub-cube e to see on larger picture what happens around 182-184 km/s make 1 more ON magellanic stream sub-cube make ~2 more OFF magellanic stream sub-cubes look at some spectra in those sub-cubes 1805 leaving the dungeon