mwa_hyperdrive

Calibration software for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope.

Currently in heavy development. Major milestones are listed below:

• [x] Direction-independent calibration (on both CPUs and GPUs)
  • [x] Single timeblock
  • [x] Multiple timeblocks
  • [ ] Frequency averaging before calibration
  • [ ] Chunking for memory constrained calibration
• [x] Reading visibilities from raw MWA data (legacy and MWAX), uvfits and measurement sets
• [x] Reading and writing RTS, AOcal and WODEN style sky-model source lists
• [x] Reading and writing RTS, AOcal and hyperdrive style calibration solutions
• [x] Writing visibilities to uvfits and measurement sets
• [ ] Direction-dependent calibration
• [ ] Writing to multiple uvfits or measurement sets for each MWA coarse channel

Installation

See the instructions here.

Usage

A comprehensive guide for usage can be found here.

Troubleshooting

Run hyperdrive again, but this time with the debug build:

cargo build
./target/debug/hyperdrive <your settings here>

See the instructions here to build from source. Report the version of the software used, your usage and the program output in a new GitHub issue.

FAQ

• Naming convention

  This project is called mwa_hyperdrive so that it cannot be confused with other projects involving the word hyperdrive, but the binary is called hyperdrive to help users' fingers.

• hyperdrive?

  HYPERDRIVE!