Welcome to QuartiCal’s documentation!

This documentation aims to make installing and using QuartiCal as easy as possible. Note that QuartiCal is a Python application, not an API - this documentation does not include a module reference or detailed description of QuartiCal’s interfaces.

• Installation
  • Ubuntu 18.04+ via pip
  • Ubuntu 18.04+ via uv
  • Using a virtual environment
• Usage
  • Command Line Interface
  • Config Files
  • Dynamic Fields
• Utilities
  • goquartical-backup
  • goquartical-restore
  • goquartical-config
  • goquartical-summary
• Options
  • input_ms
  • input_model
  • output
  • mad_flags
  • dask
  • solver
  • gain
• Gain Types
  • Amplitude - amplitude
  • Complex - complex
  • Crosshand Phase - crosshand_phase
  • Delay - delay
  • Delay and Offset - delay_and_offset
  • Diagonal Complex - diag_complex
  • Leakage - leakage
  • Phase - phase
  • Rotation - rotation
  • Rotation Measure - rotation_measure
  • TEC and Offset - tec_and_offset
  • Delay and TEC - delay_and_tec
• Gain Files
  • Reading Gains
• Examples
  • Phase-only selfcal
  • Complex (amplitude and phase) selfcal
  • Gain and bandpass selfcal
  • Direction-independent and direction-dependent complex selfcal
• Interpolation
  • Example - Interpolate
  • Example - Interpolate and Solve
• Parallelism (Chunking)
  • input_ms.group_by
  • input_ms.time_chunk and input_ms.freq_chunk
  • input_model.source_chunks
  • dask.threads and dask.workers
  • solver.threads
• Distribution