MWATelescope / Birli

A Rust library for preprocessing tasks in the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) data pipeline.
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Dealing with missing/broken coarse channels #158

Open robotopia opened 1 month ago

robotopia commented 1 month ago

Occasionally, a hardware failure could make one or more coarse channels not be recorded, e.g. ObsID 1407498208, which only has 23 coarse channels. The problem can come when trying to apply a calibration solution that contains a different number of coarse channels, e.g. 24.

It's unclear whether it matters if the missing coarse channel is the first or the last one.

In any case, having a mode so that dummy channels are included would be useful.

d3v-null commented 1 month ago

Note to self: try --sel-chan-ranges=0-23