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AntennaXds: Additional mount types #353
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This kind of addition would be a documentation update in the schema file, as we currently have the mount defined as a string, and the "Reserved keywords" simply listed in its docstring:
This would apply to the |
Thanks @FedeMPouzols, I'll create a pull request for that once the casacore pull request goes in. |
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PR casacore/casacore#1386 is going to introduce two additional mount types for telescopes with an ALT-AZ mount that use a Beam Wave Guide to bring the focus down to the pedestal. Compared to the already supported Nasmyth mounts there is an extra correction term because there are now two rotating mirrors. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13381 for more details. There are two possible geometries and analogous to the Nasmyth mount types these will be called
ALT-AZ+BWG-R
andALT-AZ+BWG-L
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