Merge of dev branch into master. Major changes:
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The default workflow has changed slightly to include an initial “get info” step, please see the README on the main page and in the setups folder for details. The benefit of this is that the observing band is deduced automatically and doesn’t have to be specified up front by the user.
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All MeerKAT bands are supported including the various S-band tunings.
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The project info pickle has been replaced with a human readable (and editable) JSON file.
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Primary beam corrected images are produced at every stage.
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Intermediate flag tables are not backed up by default. This saves a lot of time and disk space, but cautious users may want to re-enable this in the config (FWIW I have never made use of the saved flag tables).
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Entirely flagged sub-bands are now handled gracefully at the peeling stage.
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The moving goalposts that were the dependency on stimela containers have now gone, with all the software packages now in a single oxkat-specific container. This is available on ilifu so should be seamless, and it’s also available for direct download via a link in the README).
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Plots of killMS solutions are now produced as part of the 3GC facet stage. These are very useful if something goes awry at this point, but addressing such cases automatically is beyond oxkat and is an exercise for power users.
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The snapshot imaging recipe for producing short timescale images is fairly mature, although like everything that lives in waterhole might contain some rough edges.
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Numerous other bug fixes and tweaks to support slightly weirder observing scenarios.