Subtract visibilities
vis-subtract
can subtract the sky-model visibilities from calibrated data
visibilities and write them out. This can be useful to see how well the sky
model agrees with the input data, although direction-dependent effects (e.g. the
ionosphere) may be present and produce "holes" in the visibilities, e.g.:
A high-level overview of the steps in vis-subtract
are below. Solid lines
indicate actions that always happen, dashed lines are optional:
%%{init: {'theme':'dark', 'themeVariables': {'fontsize': 20}}}%% flowchart TD InputData[fa:fa-file Calibrated input data]-->Args CalSols[fa:fa-file Sky-model source-list file]-->Args Settings[fa:fa-cog Other settings]-.->Args Args[fa:fa-cog User arguments]-->Valid{fa:fa-code Valid?} Valid --> subtract subgraph subtract[For all timesteps] Read[fa:fa-code Read a timestep\nof input data] Read-->Apply["fa:fa-code Generate model vis\nand subtract it from input data"] Apply-->Write[fa:fa-save Write timeblock\nvisibilities] end