predictcomp – Make a component list for a known calibrator – modeling, calibration task

Description

Writes a component list named clist to disk and returns a dict of {‘clist’: clist,

‘objname’: objname, ‘standard’: standard, ‘epoch’: epoch, ‘freqs’: pl.array of frequencies, in GHz, ‘antennalist’: a simdata type configuration file, ‘amps’: pl.array of predicted visibility amplitudes, in Jy, ‘savedfig’: False or, if made, the filename of a plot.}

or False on error.

Parameters

Title
Parameter	Default	Description
objname	`''`
standard	`'Butler-JPL-Horizons 2010'`
epoch	`''`
minfreq	`''`
maxfreq	`''`
nfreqs	`int(2)`
prefix	`''`
antennalist	`''`
showplot	`False`
savefig	`''`
symb	`'.'`
include0amp	`False`
include0bl	`False`
blunit	`''`
showbl0flux	`False`

Parameter Explanations

objname

''

Object name

standard

'Butler-JPL-Horizons 2010'

Flux density standard

epoch

''

Epoch

minfreq

''

Minimum frequency

maxfreq

''

Maximum frequency

nfreqs

int(2)

Number of frequencies

prefix

''

Prefix for the component list directory name.

antennalist

''

Plot for this configuration

showplot

False

Plot S vs |u| to the screen?

savefig

''

Save a plot of S vs |u| to this filename

symb

'.'

A matplotlib plot symbol code

include0amp

False

Force the amplitude axis to start at 0?

include0bl

False

Force the baseline axis to start at 0?

blunit

''

unit of the baseline axis

showbl0flux

False

Print the zero baseline flux ?