epic2fits documentation

[nsbruce]

I'm trying to use EPIC for all-sky imaging data collected at LWA-SV.

My comments so far and a question at the end:

• The install went really smoothly! Way easier than handling the LSL dependencies.

• Converting from TBN format to EPIC format was easy using the provided script.

• Doing the imaging using the provided run_EPIC.py script went OK. Setting the accumulation time t_acc in the YAML file didn't seem to have an effect so in order to test the pipeline on a subset of my data I used the maxtime_ind parameter. I haven't explored this too far since I am still just trying to test EPIC.

• I now have an output file but don't know how to get it into a FITS format. I looked through the data_interface class where there is an epic2fits function, but it takes arguments that I can't find in my output data structure.

How do I convert an EPIC output hdf5 file to a FITS file?

Cheers!