# Example inputs for the e-MERLIN end-to-end pipeline.
userno = 19		# An AIPS user number with an empty catalogue!
indisk = 1		# AIPS disk to use
targets = 1236+6212	# List of targets (comma-separated if more than one)
phsrefs = 1237+6221	# List pf phase cals (comma-separated if more than one)
fluxcals = 1331+305	# List of flux cals (comma-separated... you get the idea)
bpasscals = 1407+284	# List of bandpass cals (as above)
pointcals = 1407+284	# List of point cals (as above, although unlikely to be >1)

# Optional data and plot locations - all default to the current working directory if not set here
fitsdir = /local/scratch/user/myproject/
plotdir = /local/scratch/user/myproject/plots/
fittpdir = /local/scratch/user/myproject/fits/


# Control signals, determine which parts of the pipeline to execute (all set to 1 by default)
doload = -1		# Load data from fitsdir (more options below)
doflagmask = -1		# Apply known RFI flag mask (writes an FG table)
doavg = -1		# Average the data in frequency and/or time (more options below)
dodiagnostic1 = -1	# Diagnostic plots pre-flagging with SERPent
doflag = -1		# Flag with SERPent (SERPent inputs below)
dodiagnostic2 = -1	# Diagnostic plots after flagging
doback = -1		# Backup data/tables at this point (to fittpdir)
doconcat = -1		# DBCON all files together to make one uv database
docalib = -1		# Run the calibration procedures (more options below)



# within doload
dosortfirst = -1	# Sometimes the data must be sorted before proceeding

# within doavg
nchan = 32		# Number of channels required per IF in output dataset
tint = 6		# Time averaging (-1 for no time averaging)
dosort = -1		# Sort after averaging, should rarely be needed

# within doconcat
dodelete = 1 		# Tidy up and delete redundant files immediately following DBCON

# within docalib
dodiagnostic3 = -1	# More diagnostic plots
dofringfit = 1		# Run a fringe fit
dosetflux = 1		# Set the fluxes of the fluxcal
dofluxcal = 1		# Do the rest of the flux calibration
dobandpass = 1		# Run BPASS
dotherest = -1 		# Run the rest of the calibration procedures
dosefd = -1		# Calculate SEFD estimates from the data

# within dosefd
SEFDbif = 1		# Starting IF
SEFDeif = 8		# Ending IF
SEFDbchan = 50		# Start channel
SEFDechan = 60		# End channel
#SEFDnif = 12		# Not needed
Sfield = 0.0e0		# estimated flux density (in Jy) remaining in the field sources
beta = 5e5		# spectral channel width of data in Hz
tau = 1			# time integration of data in Seconds
nu = 0.93		# WIDAR correlator efficiency -- 0.93 is EVLA estimate
kappa = 1		# improvement in SNR due to hannin smoothing
			# nb kappa = 1.633 for 3 channel hanning smoothing

pointflux = 1


# Selection of sub-bands to be split after loading (useful if you want a quick look at
# data, or to extract a particular sub-band).
# Note Sbandl and SbandU must be a contiguous range of sub-bands.
sbandl = 1
sbandu = 0

# Smoothing of the data within splat. (ie. Smooth(1), (2), (3)
# 0= no smoothing, a,b,c = 1, 4, 1 default for hanning
smootha = 0
smoothb = 0
smoothc = 0



#############################################
# AUTO FLAGGER OPTIONS                      #
#############################################

# Flagging options - see the SERPent documentation for their meaning and default values
aggr1 = 30
max1 = 32
aggr2 = 25
max2 = 256
rho = 1.5
ncpu = 16 # Number of CPUs available (TRAAL = 16, FLAGGER=8, KRIA =24, etc)
kickoutsigma = 1.5

#############################################
# PIPELINE CALIBRATION OPTIONS (TBC)        #
#############################################

# Reference antennas. Choices are: Mk2, Pi, Da, Kn, De, Cm, Lo
# The default refant is Mk2 (if in the array).
refant = Mk2

# Fring options
solint = 7

# How chatty do you want AIPS to be?  Defaults to -5.
msgkill = -5

# Do selfcal on phase calibrator? 0=no, any other positive integer = this many rounds of selfcal. Default is 0.
doselfcal = 3

# Parameters for imaging.  Note that the cellsize will be reset if you set it outside a 
# sensible range for the frequency given in the FITS header.
# The imsize parameter only applies to your target field.
imsize = 2048
cellsize = 0.02


# snr for fring, defaults to 9
fring_snr = 9