Post installation instructions

Setting up the beam

Many hyperdrive functions require the beam code to function. The MWA FEE beam HDF5 file can be obtained with:

wget http://ws.mwatelescope.org/static/mwa_full_embedded_element_pattern.h5

Move the h5 file anywhere you like, and put the file path in the MWA_BEAM_FILE environment variable:

export MWA_BEAM_FILE=/path/to/mwa_full_embedded_element_pattern.h5

It is possible to use the analytic beam instead of the FEE beam, meaning you don't need the HDF5 file, but the FEE beam is probably better.

See the README for hyperbeam for more info.