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{subsubsection}{\numberline {4.4.1}Solving for fluxes}{12} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.4.2}Determining the calibration curve}{12} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.4.3}Storing the Amplitude Calibration Curves}{12} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.5}RF Passband Calibration}{13} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.5.1}Determining the passband curves}{13} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.5.2}Storing the passband curves}{13} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.6}Editing the Data}{13} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.6.1}Variables}{13} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.6.2}Flags}{14} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {5}Calibrating the Interferometer}{15} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.1}Delay determination}{15} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.2}Baseline Calibration}{15} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.3}Reduction of Pointing and Focussing Scans}{16} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.4}Reduction of Skydip Scans}{16} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {6}A Few Receipes}{16} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.1}Finding the best delay offsets}{17} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.2}Baseline determination}{17} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {6.2.1}a rough, simple way}{17} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {6.2.2}more sophisticated}{17} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {7}Producing Images}{18} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {7.1}Creating a UV Table}{18} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {7.2}Going \unhbox \voidb@x \hbox {\bf AIPS}}{19} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {7.3}Mapping facilities in \unhbox \voidb@x \hbox {\bf GILDAS}}{20} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {8}CLIC Language Internal Help}{21} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {8.1}Language}{21} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {8.1.1}Language INFO}{21} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline 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