Introduction to MeqSilhouette

MeqSilhouette is a radio interferometry observation simulator. Blecher et al. (2017) presents an earlier version which could generate synthetic data and apply corruptions such as scattering by interstellar medium (ISM), atmospheric effects, and antenna pointing offsets. The current version, v2, is capable of generating fully polarised, time-variable, spectrally-resolved sky models and propagation path effects including (but not limited to) instrumental polarisation, updated atmospheric effects and pointing offsets, time-variable antenna gains, and bandpass effects.

This documentation explains the steps necessary for installing and using MeqSilhouette.