Examples

Reading a pre-CABB ATCA archive file (RPFITS format)

importatca(['2001-01-02_1*.C999','2001-01-03_0*.C999'],'c999.ms',options='birdie,reweight',edge=10)

Imports a number of ATCA RPFITS-format data sets into a CASA measurement set. We are applying birdie flagging and lag spectrum re-weighting (as appropriate for old 33 channel continuum data), as well as flagging the 10% edge channels.

Reading an ATCA/CABB archive file (RPFITS format)

importatca(['2012-10-25_0707.C2728'],'c2728.ms',options='noac',spw=2,edge=5)

Imports a CABB RPFITS file, throwing away the auto-correlations and the 5% edge channels and selecting only the second simultaneous frequency band.