VLAContinuumRecord.h

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//# VLAContinuumRecord.h: 
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#ifndef NRAO_VLACONTINUUMRECORD_H
#define NRAO_VLACONTINUUMRECORD_H

#include <casa/aips.h>
#include <nrao/VLA/VLABaselineRecord.h>
#include <casa/IO/ByteSource.h>
//# The following should be a forward declaration. But our casacore::Complex & DComplex
//# classes are a typedef hence this does not work. Replace the following with
//# forward declarations when casacore::Complex and casacore::DComplex are no longer typedefs.
#include <casa/BasicSL/Complex.h>

#include <casa/namespace.h>
namespace casacore{

template <class T> class Vector;
}

namespace casa { //# NAMESPACE CASA - BEGIN
} //# NAMESPACE CASA - END


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class VLAContinuumRecord: public VLABaselineRecord
{
public:
  // The default constructor creates a unusable object. Use the attach function
  // to turn an object constructed this way into a usable object.
  VLAContinuumRecord();

  // Initialise this ContinuumRecord from the given record with the
  // specified offset.
  VLAContinuumRecord(casacore::ByteSource& record, casacore::uInt offset);

  // The destructor is trivial
  virtual ~VLAContinuumRecord();

  // Initialise this VLAContinuumRecord from the given BytesSource (which
  // must contain a VLA logical record), and must be readable & seekable. The
  // offset specifies where the record starts.
  void attach(casacore::ByteSource& record, casacore::uInt offset);

  // returns the correlations for this baseline. This will be a casacore::Vector with
  // four elements containing the AA, CC, AC & CA (or BB, DD, BD, DB)
  // correlations (ie all four polarisations). The returned casacore::Vector has been
  // scaled.
  virtual casacore::Vector<casacore::Complex> data() const;

  // Returns the correlations for this baseline in the supplied Array. The
  // supplied casacore::Array may have any number of dimensions, but all except one must
  // have a length on 1. The axis that is not of length one must be the right
  // length to hold all the data contained in the record.  Alternatively the
  // casacore::Array may contain no elements in which case it will be resized to a Vector
  // of the correct length. The returned values have been scaled. 

  // The returned casacore::Array has four elements containing the AA, CC, AC & CA (or
  // BB, DD, BD, DB) correlations (ie all four polarisations).
  virtual void data(casacore::Array<casacore::Complex>& values) const;

  // returns the flags for the correlations for this baseline. The returned
  // casacore::Vector will always have a length of four.
  virtual casacore::Vector<casacore::Bool> flags() const;

  // returns the variance of the correlations for this baseline. The returned
  // casacore::Vector will always have a length of four.
  casacore::Vector<casacore::Float> variance() const;

  // returns the scaling factor used to convert the internal data to the actual
  // values.
  virtual casacore::uInt scale() const;

  // returns the antenna 1 index for this baseline.
  virtual casacore::uInt ant1() const;

  // returns the antenna 2 index for this baseline.
  virtual casacore::uInt ant2() const;
  
  // Return the type of this record (ie., CONTINUUM).
  virtual VLABaselineRecord::Type type() const;

private:
  //# The copy constructor is private and undefined.
  VLAContinuumRecord(const VLAContinuumRecord& other);

  //# The assignment constructor is private and undefined
  VLAContinuumRecord& operator=(const VLAContinuumRecord& other);

};
#endif