Apply to all targets

Apply to all targets (apply_to_all)

The apply_to_all step is designed for multi-phase centre VLBI observations only and is to cast the calibration from the previous steps to all of the other phase centres. This step will also apply a nominal primary beam correction to these data. There are multiple options available

Parameters

    "apply_to_all":{  
        "target_path"       : "/Users/jackradcliffe/Documents/BD228L/target_files", #path to the fitsidi files of the phase centres
        "target_outpath"    : "/Users/jackradcliffe/Documents/BD228L/calibrated", #path to where the calibrated data should be stored
        "tar_output"        : true, #if true, tar the calibrated products (uses gzip compression)
        "tar_ms_only"       : true, #if true and "tar_output=true" only tar the measurement set (useful for inspecting images quickly)
        "pbcor":{
            "run"           : true, #run primary beam correction
            "implementation": "uvcorr", #type of primary beam correction (see below for options)
            "vex_file"      : "", #vex file name+path (will override pointing_centre)
            "pointing_centre"  : ["10h01m22.8650000s","+2d19m28.333s"], #pointing centre of observations in CASA format
            "backup_caltables"  : true #add pbcor tables to the tar bundle of calibration tables
        },
        "image_target":{
            "run"           : true, #if true, image targets
            "imsize"        : [1024,1024] #image size
        },
        "hpc_options":{ 
            "partition"     :  "default",
            "walltime"      :  "default",
            "nodes"         :    -1,
            "cpus"          :    -1,
            "mpiprocs"      :    -1,
            "nodetype"      :  "default",
            "max_jobs"      : 24 #important for PBS/slurm runs. Determines how many concurrent jobs can run at once.
        } 

Primary beam correction

The primary beam correction has three different implementations to correct, and two different ways of setting the pointing centres. We first begin with the modes,

1. "implementation": "uvcorr"