Radio calibration toolkit

Introduction

  • Getting started
  • Install
  • Documentation and tutorial
  • Examples using measured data
  • Some tips on installing the ULSA

Tutorial

  • Galactic models
    • Galactic models comparison
    • Haslam index
  • Antenna model
    • Antenna reader example
  • Antenna-galaxy response
    • Antenna response to galactic radio emission
    • Galactic power simulation
    • Compare power datasets
  • Mocktraces
    • Mock traces example
    • Mock power dataset
    • Mock power dataset testing
  • Calibration
    • Calibration example
  • Miscellaneous
    • Statistical error propagation
    • Window function and amplitude correction
    • Permanent hpmap array rotation
    • Compare galactic power simulations via galactic and local CS
    • Utilities

Contents

  • skymapwrappers
  • antennareader
  • mocktracegenerator
  • common
Radio calibration toolkit
  • Galactic models
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Galactic models¶

  • Galactic models comparison
    • Galactic coordinates
    • Local obsever
  • Haslam index

Antenna model¶

  • Antenna reader example

Antenna-galaxy response¶

  • Antenna response to galactic radio emission
  • Galactic power simulation
  • Compare power datasets

Mocktraces¶

  • Mock traces example
  • Mock power dataset
  • Mock power dataset testing
    • Isotropic antenna gain, flat HW response, no rounding, no extra noise
    • Isotropic antenna gain, flat HW response, no rounding, extra noise
    • Isotropic antenna gain, flat HW response, rounded, no extra noise
    • Realistic antenna gain and HW response, no rounding, no extra noise
    • Realistic antenna gain and HW response, rounded, no extra noise

Calibration¶

  • Calibration example
    • Calibrate with “true”
    • Calibrate with all ‘not true’ simulated datasets
    • Iteratively apply the previous procedure to all simulated datasets

Miscellaneous¶

  • Statistical error propagation
    • Propagation to effective temperature and voltage squared spectral denisty
    • Propagation to the power
  • Window function and amplitude correction
    • Examine effects on a single trace
    • Distributions of the energy ratios of not windowed spectra and windowed spectra with amplitude correction
  • Permanent hpmap array rotation
  • Compare galactic power simulations via galactic and local CS
  • Utilities
    • Tabulate ULSA
    • Get power dataset
    • Get mock dataset
    • Generate voltage squared spectral density
    • Create isotropic antenna pattern
    • Create flat HW profile response
    • Convert 2-port network SKRF file to XML
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