MWATelescope / mwalib

Library to read Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) raw visibilities, voltages and metadata into a common structure
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Ensure voltage buffer dump is supported #59

Closed gsleap closed 1 year ago

gsleap commented 1 year ago

In MWAX, any observation can be interrupted by a trigger which will cause some or all of the /dev/shm buffer of .free files to be dumped and archived as .sub files.

This means there could be an observation which has MODE=MWAX_CORRELATOR and has some number of visibility files AND subfiles. There should be no trouble with using mwalib to read the correlator files/metafits, however there may be issues using a metafits which specifically says "MWAX_CORRELATOR" for reading the voltage .sub files. Need to test this scenario and cater for it.