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Containerized Automated Radio Astronomy Calibration (CARACal) pipeline
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restrict channel range in selfcal #1523

Closed kendak333 closed 1 year ago

kendak333 commented 1 year ago

This is more of an implementation question than an issue log. Due to channel flagging, the last subband produced with the selfcal worker (with img_nchans: 8) has no data, and this appears to be the cause of a bug in the imaging where no deconvolution takes place

== Cleaning (1) == Estimated standard deviation of background noise: 0 Jy No peak found.

I've gotten around this with a manual wsclean run using -channel-range to force it to ignore flagged edge channels, but I don't see how this can be implemented usual the selfcal parameters in caracal.

Based on the selfcal documentation, I don't see anything comparable to -channel-range. Is there a way to do this?

I know I can include an additional transform worker after flagging and before imaging, using the spw parameter, as a workaround.