Source substration

Source substration


Intro: Midnight Purr Log and source substraction

Logged on 23.08.2009 23:56:23

This is my first Purr log to report my attempt of substracting a strong source from the observation. This is just a GUI manipulation training including no code modification. I used the example-sim.py program to generate the simulation of two sources and the Cattery/Calico/calico-view-ms.py program to try remove the stronger source.

I will start with the .lsm file from the challenge n# 17 and try to remove the stronger source (10 Jy) to only keep the fainter source (reduced to 1 Jy)

Data products

SSSC17_WSRT.lsm


Generating the first observation

Logged on 24.08.2009 00:03:29

Given the previous .lsm file and the instructions of Open Challenge N# 1 and 17, we can generate the following dirty image of the two sources:

1 center source, 10Jy & 1 near center source, 1Jy

The next step is to modify by hand the .lsm file and, according to Open Challenge #1, and substract the stronger source using Cattery/Calico/calico-wsrt.py.

Data products

SSSC1_WSRT.MS.DATA.channel.1ch.fits (header)

0-full.png0-hist-full.png
0-hist-zoom.png
data range:-0.210918,4.9792
size:1x1x1024x1024
mean:-0.00519857
sigma:0.124547
clipping:95%
clip range:-0.210918,0.209766

Removing the strong source & error...

Logged on 24.08.2009 01:47:42

So, after editing the .lsm file to erase the fainter source line, I try to load the sky model in the calico-wsrt.py compile time. However, LSM.py can't manage to read the .lsm file. Even if I take the .lsm file of Open Challenge #1 (which is representing a 10 Jy source at the center), a compilation error occur (see screenshot below...)

How could I do my substraction? Is this the correct method? I am stuck...

Data products

error.png

error.png

SSSC17_WSRT.lsm

SSSC1_WSRT-1.lsm


This log was generated by PURR version 1.0.