Closed bwmeyers closed 1 year ago
Thanks for the PT @bwmeyers! Do you want to add the MWA to python/presto/sigproc.py
, src/polycos.c
, and bin/get_TOAs.py
, as well? The latter two are useful if you are ever doing timing stuff with the PRESTO tools.
Oh yes, that's a good idea! I'll do that in the next few days and update this branch.
Okay that was easier and quicker than I thought... updated both of the python files.
I didn't see anything in src/polycos.c
to change - the MWA is already listed there on Line 140 with tempo code u
(which is correct).
Previously, MWA pulsar data was exclusively PSRFITS, but we are now producing SIGPROC-style filterbank data occasionally as well, so we need to have some respective telescope and backend machine IDs. Specifically, I added the case for
telescope_id = 30
to correspond toMWA
and then three relatedmachine_id
cases that correspond to the different generations of voltage capture/beamforming capabilities of the telescope:30
= Legacy MWA VCS (MWA-VCS
)31
= current MWAX VCS (MWAX-VCS
)32
= future real-time beamforming with MWAX (MWAX-RTB
)Also, since the MWA is now expanding (currently at 144T, eventually 256T) I re-labelled the telescope as just "MWA" rather than "MWA128T".
P.S. Happy to remove the comments if you'd prefer.