writems - Create one or more MeasurementSets
- nms
- Number of MeasurementSets to create (0 means 1 MS without suffix; default,
>0 also creates MultiMS)
- msname
- Name of the output MeasurementSet (suffix _p<i> is added if
nms>0)
- ra
- One or more J2000 Right Ascensions (as hh:mm:ss.sss); defines the
fields
- dec
- One or more J2000 Declinations (as dd.mm.ss.sss); defines the fields
- anttab
- Name of the ANTENNA table giving the antenna parameters to use (zero/empty
values if not given)
- startfreq
- Start frequency (Hz) per spw (1 value counts on for other spws; default:
1e9)
- chanwidth
- Channel frequency width (Hz) per spw (1 value applies to all spws;
default: 1e6)
- starttime
- Start time (e.g., 23Mar2016/12:00:00)
- timestep
- Time interval (sec; default: 1)
- ntime
- Number of time steps (default: 1) ntimefield Number of time steps
per field (0=all fields for all times; default)
- nspw
- Number of spectral windows (default: 1)
- npol
- Number of polarizations per spectral window; 1 value applies to all spws
(default: 4)
- nchan
- Number of channels per spectral window; 1 value applies to all spws
(default: 256)
- nant
- Number of antennae to use; it anttab is given maximum to use is its size
(default: 0)
- calcuvw
- Calculate UVW coordinates? (default: false)
- autocorr
- Write autocorrelations? (default: true)
- weightspectrum
- Write WEIGHT_SPECTRUM column? (default: false)
- imagercolumns
- Write imager columns (MODEL_DATA, CORRECTED_DATA)? (default: false)
- rowwise
- Write the data row wise (thus a put per row) (default: true)
- nflagbits
- int Write multiple flag bits (0, 8, 16 or 32) mapped to FLAG (default:
0)
- flagcolumn
- Name of the FlagBits column if nflagbits>0 (default:
"FLAG_BITS")
- tilesize
- Size of data tiles (KBytes); default is 1024
- tilesizefreq
- Number of channels in data tiles; default is all channels
- multifile
- Use the MultiFile feature? (default: false)
- multihdf5
- Use the MultiHDF5 feature? (default: false)
- mfsize
- MultiFile/HDF5 block size (KBytes); default is tilesize
- ashdf5
- bool Write the data in HDF5 format (default: false)