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VOEvent handling daemon and library for generating triggered MWA observations
https://tracet.readthedocs.io
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Cause VCS triggers to record in 15 minute blocks #134

Closed PaulHancock closed 1 month ago

PaulHancock commented 3 months ago

When a VCS trigger is made, the data should be recorded in multiple 15 minute chunks rather than a single large observation.

A single observation for 3 hour would result in the region of interest being at the beam centre in the middle of this observation, but not at the start end. A 15 minute cadence keep the region of interest close to the centre of the primary beam.

PaulHancock commented 3 months ago

Buffer dump observations - we have no control over the length of the observation so it's set to be nobs=1,exptime=8 https://github.com/ADACS-Australia/TraceT/blob/d3b9cd2cad4e997a219bbb98121f590f0140590f/webapp_tracet/trigger_app/telescope_observe.py#L625-L640

PaulHancock commented 3 months ago

When triggering other kinds of observations we observe in multiples of 15 minutes. These two calls are changed in the branch associated with this issue. https://github.com/ADACS-Australia/TraceT/blob/d3b9cd2cad4e997a219bbb98121f590f0140590f/webapp_tracet/trigger_app/telescope_observe.py#L643-L689