History

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