meerkat.cfg in CASA

[teuben]

There is a meerkat.cfg file in casa, which looks very different. Who is "right"

$CASAROOT/data/alma/simmos/meerkat.cfg I see 80 12m ants

observatory=MeerKAT

coordsys=LOC (local tangent plane)

x y z diam

176.061 170.880 0.0 12.0
-130.841 61.884 0.0 12.0
-66.969 -606.976 0.0 12.0
...
-1208.553 -3073.213 0.0 12.0
-980.743 -560.740 0.0 12.0
169.497 242.840 0.0 12.0

[SpheMakh]

My coordinates are from 3 years ago. I'll update them. In the meantime, you can find an updated file (earth centred XYZ) at

https://github.com/radio-astro/simms/blob/master/simms/observatories/meerkat.itrf.txt

or on the official site at http://public.ska.ac.za/meerkat/meerkat-schedule

[teuben]

Clearly CASA is wrong in assigning it a 12m dish then. Do you have an ENU version as well, a little painful to compare as is.

[teuben]

FWIW, Mel is doing some meerkat simulations with miriad: http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~wright/meerkat