Saturday 28 November 2009

Command line interface for retrieval of phase-correction coefficients

I've made a little command-line program that calls the routines for
retrieval of water vapour and phase correction coefficients that I
described in memos 587 and 588.

So far it only uses the very simplest model and the only input are the
four channel temperatures, but it may be useful for quick checks of
observed data and also of course as an illustration of how the libraries
work. There is more information at:

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/alma/libaircmdline.html

and how to build & install at:

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/alma/sweng/libairbuild.html

One possible use is using the "evidence" value to check for unphysical
readings from the WVRs.

Let me know if you find any problems or unexpected results.

Best,
Bojan

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Wednesday 25 November 2009

Re-modelling of the web pages

I have re-modelled my web pages at:

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/index.html

Let me know if you think something got lost along the way....

Friday 6 November 2009

Building CASA using SCons

I've put together a prototype SCons build framework for CASA, here is a brief description:

http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~bn204/alma/sweng/casabuild.html

The advantages are that it will be hopefully clearer and easier to extend the build with SCons, and also the parallel build functionality can accelerate the process significantly. On the computer I've been using the whole build from scratch takes about 18 minutes