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Containerized Automated Radio Astronomy Calibration (CARACal) pipeline
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flag within a range of u coordinates #1388

Closed Fil8 closed 2 years ago

Fil8 commented 2 years ago

Once binning in channels datacubes show horizontal striping.

Screenshot 2021-11-26 at 17 18 46

This is similar to what seen by Mario Santos in the power spectrum of MeerKAT's visibilities, and is due to some RFI? at u=0 and over all values of v.

as seen in this FFT the 'striped' datacube

Screenshot 2021-11-26 at 12 06 55

Hence we add a module that flags (using casacore) in the U coordinate given a certain range.

ratt-priv-ci commented 2 years ago

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

paoloserra commented 2 years ago

test this please