Known Telescopes¶
Known Telescope Data¶
pyuvdata has the following known telescopes:
{
"HERA": {
"altitude": 1051.69,
"center_xyz": null,
"citation": "value taken from hera_mc geo.py script (using hera_cm_db_updates under the hood.)",
"diameters": 14.0,
"latitude": -0.5361917820434683,
"longitude": 0.3739944548964605
},
"MWA": {
"altitude": 377.827,
"center_xyz": null,
"citation": "Tingay et al., 2013",
"latitude": -0.4660608448386394,
"longitude": 2.0362898668561042
},
"PAPER": {
"altitude": 1073.0,
"center_xyz": null,
"citation": "value taken from capo/cals/hsa7458_v000.py, comment reads KAT/SA (GPS), altitude from elevationmap.net",
"latitude": -0.536191810965119,
"longitude": 0.37399448506783717
},
"SMA": {
"altitude": 4083.948144,
"center_xyz": null,
"citation": "Ho, P. T. P., Moran, J. M., & Lo, K. Y. 2004, ApJL, 616, L1",
"latitude": 0.34599765344605243,
"longitude": -2.7135946891467304
}
}
Related class and functions¶
Telescope information and known telescope list.
-
class
pyuvdata.telescopes.
Telescope
[source]¶ A class for defining a telescope for use with UVData objects.
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citation
¶ text giving source of telescope information
- Type
str
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telescope_name
¶ name of the telescope
- Type
UVParameter of str
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telescope_location
¶ telescope location xyz coordinates in ITRF (earth-centered frame).
- Type
UVParameter of array_like
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antenna_diameters
¶ Optional, antenna diameters in meters. Used by CASA to construct a default beam if no beam is supplied.
- Type
UVParameter of float
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pyuvdata.telescopes.
known_telescopes
()[source]¶ Get list of known telescopes.
- Returns
list of str – List of known telescope names.
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pyuvdata.telescopes.
get_telescope
(telescope_name, telescope_dict_in=None)[source]¶ Get Telescope object for a telescope in telescope_dict.
- Parameters
telescope_name (str) – Name of a telescope
telescope_dict_in (dict) – telescope info dict. Default is None, meaning use KNOWN_TELESCOPES (other values are only used for testing)
- Returns
Telescope object – The Telescope object associated with telescope_name.