MWATelescope / mwa_pb

MWA Primary Beam model code
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MWA Telescope Primary Beam code

For more information, see http://www.mwatelescope.org

Requirements: -numpy -astropy -skyfield -matplotlib -scipy -h5py

Optional requirements for the skymap.py module, to generate all-sky maps with radio sources, constellations, etc, and the MWA beam overlaid as a contour plot: -ephem (to identify what constellation name a given RA/Dec is in) -Pillow (to generate PNG files)

NOTE - to use this software, you'll need to download a data file that exceeds github's maximum file size.

After cloning this repository: $ cd mwa_pb/mwa_pb/data $ wget http://ws.mwatelescope.org/static/mwa_full_embedded_element_pattern.h5 $ python setup.py install