FITS Handler (pyvisgen.fits)

Introduction

pyvisgen.fits contains methods to handle FITS file operations. There are two submodules, data, which provides methods to open and handle .h5 files, and writer, which provides methods to create HDU objects for FITS files.

Submodules

• Data (pyvisgen.fits.data)
• FITS Writer (pyvisgen.fits.writer)

Reference/API

pyvisgen.fits Package

Functions

create_antenna_hdu(obs)	Creates the antenna HDU for the FITS file.
create_frequency_hdu(obs)	Creates the frequency HDU of the FITS file.
create_hdu_list(data, obs)	Creates a HDUList as the top-level object for the FITS file.
create_time_hdu(data)	Creates the time HDU for the FITS file.
create_vis_hdu(data, obs[, source_name])	Creates the visibility HDU for the given visibility data and observation.

Classes

fits_data(data_path)

Class that handles h5 files simulated with the radiosim package.