mrtcal-prog-manual

MRTCAL Programmer Manual
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Documentation
  S. BardeauIn charge: S. Bardeau.
  J. Pety, A. SieversActive developers: J. Pety, A. Sievers.
  Main past contributors: .
Software
  S. Bardeau, A. SieversIn charge: S. Bardeau, A. Sievers.
  J. PetyActive developers: J. Pety.
  Main past contributors: .

1. IRAM (Grenoble)
2. Observatoire de Paris
3. IRAM (Granada)

Note: this is the on-line version of the MRTCAL Programmer Manual. A PDF version is also available.

Related information is available in:

- MRTCAL User Manual
- CLASS Manual
- GREG: Graphical Possibilities
- SIC: Command Line Interpretor

- Contents
- Chunks and chunksets
  - Chunks slicing
  - Polarimetry
- Reading the DATA column
  - Discarding bad time dumps
  - Dump cycle identification
  - Reading the DATA column by pieces
- Positions
  - Reference position
  - Scan offsets
  - Antenna offsets
    - Projection system
    - Interpolation
    - Wobbler switching
    - Beam switching and continuum drifts
    - Slow and Fast traces
  - Offsets of multi-pixel receiver
    - Handling the derotator
    - Computing the pixel coordinates
    - Description of the radio projection
    - In practice: Effect on Polaris observations
  - Guessing ON and OFF positions
- Interpolation of calibration products
- Memory index
  - Strategy
  - Contents
- Scan date vs observation date: Midnight issue
  - In MRTCAL index files
  - In CLASS spectrum header
- Patching IMB-FITS at read time
  - Added elements when missing
  - Modified elements
- IMB-FITS version 2.13
  - Primary
  - IMBF-scan
  - IMBF-frontend
  - IMBF-backend
  - IMBF-backendFTS
  - IMBF-antenna
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