tart-tools 1.1.2b7

Transient Array Radio Telescope Command Line Tools

TART: Radio-telescope command line tools

This module provides command line tools for operating Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART). These tools are

• tart_calibrate
• tart_calibration_data
• tart_download_antenna_positions
• tart_upload_antenna_positions
• tart_download_data
• tart_download_gains
• tart_image
• tart_upload_gains
• tart_set_mode
• tart_vis2json

To generate an image from a telescope, try the following command which should display the current view from a telescope on top of Signal-Hill near Dunedin New Zealand.

tart_image --api https://tart.elec.ac.nz/signal --display

For more information see the TART Github repository

Install Instructions

tart_tools is available from standard python package repositories. Try:

pip3 install tart_tools

Authors

• Tim Molteno ([e-mail])
• Max Scheel ([e-mail])

Development work

If you are developing this package, this should be installed using

	make develop

in which case changes to the source-code will be immediately available to projects using it.

NEWS

• 1.1.2b7 TART tools update. Add a command line switch to specify output file for tart_download_data'

• 1.1.2b6 Pass the lat and lon to catalog_url

• 1.1.2b5 Require the python-dateutil library

• 1.1.2b4 Require the requests library

• 1.1.2b3 Change API of catalog_url to use lon and lat explicitly

• 1.1.2b1 Fix a missing checksum call if a local file was partially downloaded (tart_download_data).

• 1.1.2b0 Make h5 to json compatible with tart2ms json import.

• 1.1b.8 New versioning to match tart. Move to new repository

• 0.2.0b14. Improve API handler code.

• 0.2.0b13. Clean up code to use other API endpoints. Add CLI to --ignore some antennas Add --n option to tart_download_data to stop after n downloads (used to grab the latest raw file) Add CLI to use the influxdb

• 0.2.0b12. Fix bug in get-gains option.

• 0.2.0b11. Add a tart_set_mode binary.

• 0.2.0b9. Add a timeout to all HTTP requests.

• 0.2.0b8. Add a put method to the authorized api handler.

• 0.2.0b7. Fix typo in tart_calibrate that stopped calibration working.

• 0.2.0. New tart_download_data function.

• 0.1.5. Python3 compatability changes