Slicker antenna layout makes it difficult to run pyuvsim simulation couterpart

[piyanatk]

The "slicker" antenna layout interface means that the antenna layout file are no longer in pyuvsim format. This makes it difficult to run pyuvsim counterparts of the simulation.

[steven-murray]

Oh, how do they differ from the pyuvsim format?

[piyanatk]

Name    Number   BeamID    E          N          U

ANT1        0        0     0.0000   0.0000  0.0000
ANT2        1        0     50.000   0.0000  0.0000
ANT3        2        2     0.0000   -50.00  0.0000
ANT4        3        2     26.000   -26.00  0.0000

For HERA, the antenna name should be HH???

[steven-murray]

hmmm sure. We can change that I suppose - although does it actually matter for pyuvsim?

[piyanatk]

matter for pyuvsim? Probably not. It's just convenience for users, I think. Now that I think about it, if you do a dry run, it will build the actual configuration files, including the properly styled antenna layout file, that get run, right?

[steven-murray]

Yes -- the antenna file is still created (even in a non-dry run). It's just made automatically and gets an auto-generated filename.