As the VLA observes, the data get written to a local disk in the
control building. Sometime after IAT midnight, the data are
transferred to the NRAO Data
Archive in Socorro. After that time you may retrieve the data
from the archive by anonymous ftp. Proprietary data are password
protected where the passwords may be obtained from the data analysts
office (analysts@nrao.edu).
If you (or your advisor, for graduate students) were not listed on
the original proposal, you must first obtain permission from our
scheduling team (schedsoc@nrao.edu) or Bob
Dickman (rdickman@nrao.edu) before
requesting access to the data. Please see the NRAO
Data Archive Policy for more details.
Observers present at the VLA or AOC may transfer their data from
the local disk directly into AIPS using the AIPS task FILLM ,
VERSION='ONLINE'. This is particularly useful when the data
has been taken very recently, before it has been made available
through the archive. More details are in the FILLM HELP file; for
more extensive information about online filling see here.
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