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hyperdrive prefers to use the FEE beam when its applicable.  The associated beam code (hyperbeam) requires that the MWA FEE beam file be available at runtime; this is either done manually with a command-line argument to hyperdrive, or with the MWA_FEEBEAM_BEAMFILE environment variable.  garrawarla users typically don't need to worry about this, because hyperdrive modules automatically set MWA_FEEBEAM_BEAMFILE.

How do I get started?

Have a look at the help text!

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By default, hyperdrive will attempt to use all sources specifiedin the source list file.  If there are more than 1,000 sources in the file, then it may take a long time!  In order to keep the number of sources used low, one could use the -n/--num-sources and/or --veto-threshold flags, or use a source list with fewer sources in the first place (see hyperdrive srclist-by-beam).

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•  Reads raw MWA data
  
•  Reads a single uvfits file as input
•  Reads multiple uvfits files as input
•  Reads a single measurement set file as input
•  Reads multiple measurement set files as input
•  Calibrates on the CPU
•  Calibrates on a GPU
•  Writes calibration solutions to the "André Offringa calibrate format"
•  Writes calibration solutions in the "RTS format"
•  Writes calibrated visibilities directly to uvfits output
  
•  Writes calibrated visibilities directly to measurement set output