Overview
This page describes the human-readable web pages used to view information about the current MWA status, and MWA observations both past and future. If you are interested in machine-readable access to any of the data or plots shown on any of these pages, see the related article describing the MWA web services.
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To find observations, use this form: http://mwa-metadata01ws.pawseymwatelescope.org.au/metadata/find
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 page (described below).
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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-metadata01ws.pawseymwatelescope.org.au/observation/obs/?obs_id=1227437648
At the top of the page is a 'STATS' button, which gives the total observation time (in seconds and hours) of all observations that match the criteria - not just the ones on the current page.
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Last are three tables showing all data files associated with that observation.
Old observation schedule page:
The old web page to view the MWA schedule can be found here: http://ws.mwatelescope.org/admin/observation/observationsetting
Tile status map:
You will generally get to a tile status map by clicking on a tile name in the tile error matrix (on the live status page, or on an observation information page - see above).
Otherwise, you can use the direct URL - eg: http://mwa-metadata01ws.pawseymwatelescope.org.au/tiles/tilemap/?obsid=1227492560
The tile status map shows the tiles as they are physically located in the desert, colour coded to show (for a particular observation) whether the actual state of the tile for that observation matched the desired state. Good tiles are shown as rectangles with a green '+' sign inside, and bad tiles (tiles with beamformer communication errors, receiver errors, flagged tiles, or tiles that have too many bad dipoles) have a red '+' inside instead.
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These plots are generated at 6am every morning (AWST), and cover the preceding 12 hours, from 6pm the previous night. Clicking on a date/time brings up a page showing thumbnail images for all tiles (ask the ops team for username/password details, the password protection is just to deter web-scrapers that ignore our robots.txt directives).
These thumbnails show X-pol and X-Y (the difference between the polarisations) for either the median of all tiles (the first plot) or the individual tiles on each receiver. Clicking on a thumbnail brings up the full waterfall plot for that tile.
The full waterfall plot is divided into three sections, left-right - X pol, X-Y, and Y pol. Each has frequency (0 - 327.68 MHz) on the horizontal axis, time (hours before the time that the plot was generated, most recent times at the top of the plot) on the vertical axis, and colour indicating the PPD power for that tile, at that frequency, at that time. There are tick markers on the inner vertical axes - major ticks every two hours, and minor ticks at the start of each scheduled MWA observation. Clicking inside the plot shows a new page with a graph of the full-spectrum power from that tile, at that instant (which depends where in the plot you click).
RFI is visible as short lived (small height) narrow band (small width) bright patches. For example, in every plot, there's a series of bright streaks at 137 MHz going up the plot, which is Orbcom. The vertical axis has tickmarks between the X and XY sections, and between the XY and Y sections, but they aren't visible in some plots against the background colour.
Schedule maps:
Graphical maps showing the contents of the MWA schedule are available here: http://telemetry-static.mwa128t.org/schedmap
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Clicking on the bar representing a single observation in that schedule map brings up a new window showing the observation information page, for that observation.
Calibration Fits
Various calibration fit plots for each observation are available here: http://ws.mwatelescope.org/calib/summary/
These include:
- tilediff: X and Y cable delay residuals for each tile, superimposed over partially transparent points for other tiles in that fit.
- timediff: X and Y cable delay residuals for each tile, compared to previous fits for that tile.
- xydiff: Difference between X and Y residuals for each tile, shown for the last 3 months worth of observations before this fit.
- gains: X and Y gains for each tile, for each MWA channel observed in the that fit.
- gaintimes: X and Y gains for each tile, for each MWA channel, compared to previous fits.