Plotconfig

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This page documents the plotconfig function of Python module analysisUtils.

This function will make a plot of pad locations for any standard telescope configuration known to CASA (not limited to a specific observed ms). The size of the pad is equal to the diameter of the antenna, unless the configuration is too large in which case there is a minimum marker size. It also returns an array of the baseline lengths, sorted from shortest to longest. See also obslist.

Usage

au.plotconfig(telescope="", config="", figfile="", list=False, limits=None, gridlines=True, listconfig=False, cofa=[], title="")

telescope: name of the telescope (see below), or 'file'

config: name of the configuration for the specified telescope, or any user-supplied .cfg file if telescope='file'

figfile: a specific filename to give to the png (or True for automatic name generation)

gridlines: optional Boolean parameter to show dotted grid lines on major tick marks

limits: optional parameter for plot range: [x0,x1,y0,y1]

list: optional Boolean parameter to print the list of baseline lengths

listconfig: optional Boolean parameter to print the .cfg file

cofa: center-of-array coordinates [x,y,z]; if [], then use the value in CASA

title: title for plot (default is "telescope config")

Examples

Example 1. List the available telescopes and configurations.

# In CASA
au.plotconfig()

Telescope and configuration available to plot:
aca: i, ns, tp
alma: cycle0.compact, cycle0.extended, cycle1_1..6, 1..28
carma: a, b, c, d, e
meerkat
pdbi: a, b, c, d
sma: subcompact, compact, compact.n, extended, vextended
vla: a, bna, b, cnb, c, dnc, d
WSRT

Example 2. Plot the antenna pad locations for the ALMA Cycle 0 compact configuration.

# In CASA
CASA <3>: au.plotconfig('alma','cycle0.compact',figfile=True)

Read 16 pads
min/nextmin/median/mean/rms/max = 18.35 / 18.60 / 59.72 / 60.70 / 66.23 / 126.21 m
Wrote file = ALMA.cycle0.compact.png
  Out[3]:
array([  18.34928114,   18.59922814,   18.67225341,   19.68871438,
         20.7597779 ,   21.20105286,   21.3329793 ,   21.72915379,
         22.0800591 ,   22.59459018,   22.78237144,   25.78846509,
         25.83201484,   27.46895957,   27.49794209,   29.15634497,
         29.51343179,   31.55829422,   31.62250752,   32.54785378,
         34.38181744,   35.16912492,   35.18143753,   35.82266106,
         36.13044471,   36.45664452,   37.51364775,   38.35224408,
         38.35254654,   39.69908198,   40.3565153 ,   40.42755518,
         41.67060747,   41.96129664,   42.70404032,   44.19920722,
         44.904219  ,   44.98801461,   45.55421129,   45.93669031,
         46.3172296 ,   49.19301973,   49.30952918,   49.48707485,
         49.6219985 ,   49.69345204,   50.21704346,   51.29964177,
         52.43045363,   53.36047729,   53.43057901,   54.77903629,
         55.02455692,   55.24620569,   55.64613159,   55.95932051,
         58.43846541,   58.87265975,   59.35451767,   59.38838186,
         60.04523739,   61.13475674,   61.20365903,   61.79890065,
         61.99068325,   62.23888045,   62.24118429,   63.29582646,
         63.72437196,   63.80145741,   64.07662404,   64.59870677,
         65.21122832,   66.19442183,   67.23575586,   67.44667197,
         68.35948186,   69.82434388,   70.28085447,   70.35046477,
         70.4119276 ,   71.27848096,   71.58639724,   72.73992797,
         73.02277569,   74.6357243 ,   74.65195369,   75.88656385,
         77.55790771,   77.66319884,   77.94134408,   78.66300731,
         78.99645676,   79.3718099 ,   79.51404976,   81.32890711,
         81.89215932,   84.58133363,   85.51914888,   85.71695764,
         86.23846096,   89.81169974,   89.90704378,   91.43517893,
         92.5529028 ,   92.69516764,   96.68869426,   97.2890155 ,
         99.39936863,   99.74621451,  102.75273748,  103.30270508,
        106.0247318 ,  106.44602039,  113.42238358,  118.82496947,
        119.32132193,  123.42990694,  124.75264467,  126.21222105])