SYSCAL Data Storage Formats

The RPFITS data stores some extra information in the header, as keywords, and some in the visibility data stream, by marking it with baseline number -1. For single dish data (baseline==0) the u,v,w variables are replaced with ra,dec,utc.

Syscal data variables
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 Q    Syscal Quantity MB      Syscal quantity ATCA     Wide Band Corr
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 #   q1=0        q1>0       q1=0         q1>0         q1>0
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q1  0           beam(>0)    0           ant(>0)       ant(>0)
q2  Az                      Temp.       if_no         Freq band0
q3  El                      Pressure    XY phase      Tsys
q4  Par. Angle              Humidity    sqrt(TsysA)   Tsys
q5  Focus x                 Windspeed   sqrt(TsysB)   Tsys
q6  Focus y                 Wind Dir    S Stats A +   Freq band1
q7  Focus z                 Wind flag   S Stats A 0   Tsys
q8  Temp                    Rain        S Stats A -   Tsys
q9  Press                   Seemonphase S Stats B +   Tsys
q10 Humidity                Seemon rms  S Stats B 0   # radec records
q11 Wind speed              Seemon flag S Stats B -   ant
q12 Wind dir.                           Par. Angle    utseconds
q13 Cal signal                          Flag          ra
q14   time                              XY Ampl.      dec
q15             Cal PolA                              (repeated)
q16             Cal PolB        
q17 Ref beam    DSD off A       
q18             DSD on  A         
q19             DSD off B
q20             DSD on  B
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