The MBFits Data Format Peter Müller Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn Radioteleskop Effelsberg, Bad Münstereifel Germany 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

100m RT Effelsberg 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

Software developements at Effelsberg New telescope control software Realtime on VXworks OS Time uncritical part on Linux OS New reduction software (Toolbox) New raw data format (MBFits) Programing language PYTHON 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

... And at Urumqi 25m RT Fortunately nearly the same situation as in Effelsberg Telescope control software Realtime on DOS OS Time uncritical part on Linux OS Effelsberg SW was easily portable 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

What was to do? Major differences on the realtime part Only tracking possible, no scanning Serial line connection, no ethernet Both problems could be solved Serial line connection (easy) Scanning (no so easy) Linux SW nearly identical to Effelsberg Reduction SW toolbox Ver 0.1 Many thanks to Sun Xiaohui for debuging and necessarily improvements to the SW 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

Advantages of MBFits For all single-dish bolometer and heterodyne multi beam observations Easier to share software Human readable with the FITSviewer fv (Linux) Complete and detailed description Fits structure (Keyword-value-description) Data associated parameter table Scan – subscan - integration 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

MBFits block diagram 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

FITSviewer 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

SCAN-MBFITS 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

MONITOR-MBFITS 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

DATAPAR-MBFITS 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

ARRAYDATA-MBFITS 04/02/2019 MBFits Format

Conclusions MBFits is a new common raw data format Advantages for software developers and observers Full and detailed description available at: ftp://ftp.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/outgoing/peter/MBFits.pdf 04/02/2019 MBFits Format