From 15e5284b861895bc06ec86f5c991eda7649d7020 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Garrett 'Karto' Keating Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 09:39:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Making more updates in response to comments --- paper.bib | 15 +++++++++++++++ paper.md | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/paper.bib b/paper.bib index 0d44e7b3a..7e8862d0b 100644 --- a/paper.bib +++ b/paper.bib @@ -139,3 +139,18 @@ @ARTICLE{casa adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022PASP..134k4501C}, adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System} } + +@ARTICLE{pyuvdata_v1, + author = {{Hazelton}, Bryna J. and {Jacobs}, Daniel C. and {Pober}, Jonathan C. and {Beardsley}, Adam P.}, + title = "{pyuvdata: an interface for astronomical interferometeric datasets in python}", + journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software}, + year = 2017, + month = feb, + volume = {2}, + number = {10}, + eid = {140}, + pages = {140}, + doi = {10.21105/joss.00140}, + adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017JOSS....2..140H}, + adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System} +} diff --git a/paper.md b/paper.md index 76a22b11e..e4b13b274 100644 --- a/paper.md +++ b/paper.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ affiliations: index: 2 - name: University of Washington, Physics Department index: 3 - - name: Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration + - name: Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy index: 4 - name: Winona State University, Physics Department index: 5 @@ -94,4 +94,25 @@ Originally motivated to support new low frequency instruments (e.g. MWA to support handling of data from several telescopes, ranging from meter to submillimeter wavelengths, including SMA, ALMA, SMA, VLA, ATCA, CARMA, LWA, among others. +# Major updates in this version +In the time since it was initially published [@pyuvdata_v1], pyuvdata has undergone a +significant expansion in capabilities. In addition to general performance improvements +and restructuring, the newest version of pyuvdata includes several new major features, +including: + +- The addition of the `UVCal` class, which provides a container for handling calibration +solutions (bandpass, delays, and gains) for interferometric data. Supported data formats +include MS, FHD, CalFITS, and CalH5. +- The addition of the `UVBeam` class, which provides a container for handling models +of the primary beam for antennas within an interferometric array. Supported data formats +include BeamFITS and MWA. +- The addition of the `UVFlag` class, which provides a container for handling flags/masking +of bad data for visibility data. +- Drastically improved handling of astrometry and increased speed and accuracy of algorithms +used to ``phase-up'' data (i.e., change the sky position where the interferometer is centered +up on). +- Support for several new visibility data formats, including MIR, MS, UVFITS, and MWA/MWAX. +- Support for data sets containing multiple spectral windows. +- Support for data sets containing observations of multiple sources/phase centers. + # References