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I then saved this file to /astro/mwavcs/vcs/1318345216/cal/1318345216_cal.metafits.
(MEMO TO SELF: write a utility script to do this for you.)
Beamform
For the time being, we have to "trick" the beamformer into thinking this is a legacy VCS observation, instead of an MWAX VCS observation. I did this by creating a copy of the metafits file and changing the "MODE" and "NCHANS" fields to 'VOLTAGE_START' and 3072, respectively. [MEMO TO SELF: add an option to "force" the beamformer to treat it as a legacy obs, if you want to beamform from the .dat files produced by the offline PFB.]
Transfer the flagged tiles from the RTS
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$ cd /astro/mwavcs/vcs/1318345216/vcsbeam
$ /PATH/TO/rts_flag_ant_to_tilenames.py 1318345216_cal.metafits flagged_tiles.txt > flagged_tilenames.txt |
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$ cd /astro/mwavcs/vcs/1318345216/vcsbeam $ echo "00:34:08.8703 -07:21:53.409" > pointings.txt $ sbatch vcsbeam.sbatch |
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