1.4.1.0 measures.uvw

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measures.uvw - Function

1.4.1 define a uvw measure

Description

uvw defines a uvw measure from the CLI. It has to specify a reference code, uvw quantity values (see introduction for the action on a scalar quantity with either a vector or scalar value), and optionally it can specify an offset, which in itself has to be a uvw. Allowable reference codes are ITRF and the direction ones.
Note that additional ones may become available. Check in CASA with:

print "\t----\t uvw Ex 1 \t----"
print me.listcodes(me.uvw())
#{’normal’: [’J2000’, ’JMEAN’, ’JTRUE’, ’APP’, ’B1950’, ’BMEAN’,
# ’BTRUE’, ’GALACTIC’, ’HADEC’, ’AZEL’, ’AZELSW’, ’AZELNE’,
# ’AZELGEO’, ’AZELSWGEO’, ’AZELNEGEO’, ’JNAT’, ’ECLIPTIC’,
# ’MECLIPTIC’, ’TECLIPTIC’, ’SUPERGAL’, ’ITRF’, ’TOPO’,
# ’ICRS’], ’extra’: []}

The uvw quantity values should be either longitude (angle), latitude(angle) and height(length); or x,y,z (length). See quantity for possible angle formats.

Arguments


Inputs
rf	reference code
	allowed:	string
	Default:	ITRF
v0	longitude or x
	allowed:	any
	Default:	variant
v1	latitude or y
	allowed:	any
	Default:	variant
v2	height or z
	allowed:	any
	Default:	variant
off	optional offset uvw measure
	allowed:	record
	Default:

Returns
record

Example

print "\t----\t uvw Ex 2 \t----"
print me.uvw(’itrf’,’30deg’,’40deg’,’10m’)
#{’m0’: {’value’: 0.52359877559829882, ’unit’: ’rad’},
# ’m1’: {’value’: 0.6981317007977319, ’unit’: ’rad’},
# ’m2’: {’value’: 9.9999999999999982, ’unit’: ’m’},
# ’refer’: ’ITRF’,
# ’type’: ’uvw’}
print me.doframe(me.epoch(’utc’,’today’))
#True
print me.doframe(me.observatory(’ALMA’))
#True
print me.doframe(me.direction(’mars’))
#True
print me.measure(me.uvw(’itrf’,’30deg’,’40deg’,’10m’), ’j2000’)
#{’m0’: {’value’: 0.52321924738347259, ’unit’: ’rad’},
# ’m1’: {’value’: 0.69813169995801672, ’unit’: ’rad’},
# ’m2’: {’value’: 10.0, ’unit’: ’m’},
# ’refer’: ’J2000’,
# ’type’: ’uvw’}

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