Added step to generate delay calibration solution files
This MR addresses RAP-167. The step produces an h5 solution file from the input MS.
This step requires local copies of facet_selfcal and lofar_helpers, and requires the paths to these copies to be supplied as the input parameters selfcal
and h5merger
, respectively. Note that facet_selfcal
above is a fork of lofar_facet_selfcal with LOFARBeam removed. The former will be replaced by the latter in the future.
Furthermore, facet_selfcal
requires a configuration file facetselfcal_config.txt
that should be supplied as the input parameter configfile
. An example configuration file is supplied with this MR.
There are some caveats when operating the pipeline with delay_solve
. The concatenation steps earlier in the pipeline introduce flags, which don't play well with the internal working of facet_selfcal
. It is therefore important that the steps of the pipeline must be run without concatenation. This issue will be addressed in RAP-243.