1. The MBFits Data Format Peter Müller
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn
Radioteleskop Effelsberg, Bad Münstereifel
Germany
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2. 100m RT Effelsberg
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3. 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
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4. ... 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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. MBFits block diagram
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8. FITSviewer
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9. SCAN-MBFITS
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10. MONITOR-MBFITS
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11. DATAPAR-MBFITS
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12. ARRAYDATA-MBFITS
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13. 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
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