History

3.0.0-alpha (07 Feb 2024)

• Merge leakage with master by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/19

• Update container definition files by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/20

• Update docker installation instructions by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/21

• Generate atmosphere independently by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/22

• Minor updates to docs by @iniyannatarajan in https://github.com/rdeane/MeqSilhouette/pull/23

• Port to python 3

• Generate reproducible stochastic atmospheric corruptions independently from other corruptions

• Merge focalpy38 with master by @iniyannatarajan

2.7.1 (2021)

• Update how plotting modules handle non-existent arrays

• New tropospheric turbulence module

2.7 (2021)

• Package MeqSilhouette

• Update singularity recipe and Dockerfile

• Update casa data while building images

• Update documentation

2.6.2 (2021)

• Extensive updates to documentation

• Singularity containerisation

• Add option to run with Jupyter notebook

• Add license

• Update ms plotting module

• Ensure uncorrupted vis are copied to MODEL_DATA always

2.6.1 (2021)

• Improve output path handling

• Synchronize sample input files and default input settings

• Update documentation

2.6 (2021)

• Implement frequency-dependent polarization leakage and remove time dependence

• Improve error handling for memory errors

• Chunk data to fit in memory

• Add paper-friendly plots

2.5 (2020)

• Generate real and imaginary parts of orthogonal polarization feeds independently for time-varying antenna gains and polarization leakage

• Generate interpolated bandpass gains independently for orthogonal polarization feeds

• Clean up input files

2.4 (2020)

• Handle frequency-dependent source models

• Verify existence of bandpass gains table

• Add new bandpass plotting capability

• Implement time-varying complex antenna gains

• Remove deprecated functions

2.3 (2020)

• Streamline random seed initialization

• Handle potential rounding errors in antenna pointing offsets

• Add sky noise to visibility weight estimation

• Include CASA time offset correction

2.0 (2019)

• Depend mainly on WSClean for forward modelling (MeqTrees only for txt sky models)

• Full polarimetric simulations

• Simulate time-variable sources

• Add complex bandpass gains

• Add instrumental polarization and parallactic angle rotation (write visibilities in both antenna and sky frames)

• Improve pointing error module

• Improve tropospheric corruption and thermal noise modules

• Add plotting modules

• Remove scattering screen

• Refactor code for seamless integration within pipelines such as SYMBA

1.0 (2016)

• Tropospheric corruptions

• Basic pointing error module

• ISM scattering