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Fill in the search parameters you want to filter on, and click on the 'Search' button at the top of the page. The observations matching the search criteria will be shown in a table - use the page number buttons at the top of the page to view extra results. Clicking on the observation ID for any observation in the table (the first column) shows the full observation information (described below).
Observation information page:
You will generally get to the page describing an observation from one of the above pages, but you can use the direct URL - eg: http://mwa-metadata01.pawsey.org.au/observation/obs/?obs_id=1227437648
The top of the page has three tables (Observation Settings, Schedule Metadata, and RF Streams) describing the desired state of the telescope, as recorded in the schedule database. Parameters include date/time, coordinates, frequency settings, etc. Another table (Quality Metadata) includes data from an automated quality analysis, if one has been run for that observation (currently only done for EoR observations).
Next is a table summarising the way the observation was carried out, including the MWA configuration at the time of the observation, the number of good and bad tiles, etc.
Below that is the full command and all arguments used to add that observation to the schedule.
Next is a sky map showing the whole sky (above the horizon) at the time of the observation, including bright GLEAM sources, other bright sources in the field including the Sun, Moon and Jupiter, and contour lines showing the primary (tile) beam at the centre frequency used in that observation.
Next is a table with all log entries referring to that observation.
Next is a tile colour coded tile error matrix, as described above in the section for the live status page. As above, clicking on a tile name in the table brings up a tile status map centred on that tile, inside which you can zoom and recenter on other tiles.
Next is a graph of full-spectrum (0-327.68 MHz) powers for each tile, averaged over the duration of the observation. The units are in ADU, scaled to match the 4+4i bit numbers leaving the fine PFB. If the typical tile power at the frequencies used in that observation (indicated by the red bar on the horizontal axis) lie inside the green shaded region of the graph, then the data isn't going to be undersampled or saturated.
Last are three tables showing all data files associated with that observation.