make_lis - script that makes a lis file without having to use showlog:

usage: make_lis [-h] -e EXPERIMENT [-p PROFILE] [-m MPCSOURCE] [-s SAVE]
make_lis: error: argument -e/--experiment is required

flag_weights.py - flag all visibilities under weight threshold x:

usage: flag_weights.py [-h] <measurement set> <weight threshold>

Flag visibilities with weights below the provided threshold.

positional arguments:
  msdata         Measurement set containing the data to be corrected.
  threshold      Visibilities with a weight below this value will be flagged.
                 Must be positive.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --version      show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose  Only checks the visibilities to flag (do not flag the data).

multiphase.py - script to setup a shell script (or multiple lis files) for multiple phase centre experiments. Should no longer be required with new showlog/make_lis:

usage: multiphase.py [-h] [-b] [-c] [-s]
                     experiment pcBaseName phaseCenters [phaseCenters ...]

This script will attempt to make a sane sfx2ms shell script file for multi-
phase center experiments. Expects a <exp>.vxsm and a base <exp>_sfxc2ms.sh
file in the working directory.

positional arguments:
  experiment          Experiment name
  pcBaseName          Base phase center name
  phaseCenters        list of phase centers (space delimited)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  -b, --include-base  Include the base phase center in the output?
                      Default=False
  -c, --include-cal   Include the calibrator sources in each measurement set.
                      Defaults to False, which means calibrator sources will
                      be included in the first measurement set only
  -s, --separate-lis  Writes a lis file for each phase centre. Can then be run
                      with j2ms2 -v lisfile

parallel - multiple phase centre speedups - parallel is a linux utility to run tasks in parallel. Here's an example for running flag_weights.py, tConvert for multiple phase centres in eg078f. Similar can be done for j2ms2 etc:

flagging: parallel –eta -j 10 flag_weights.py {} 0.7 ::: *.ms_HD*

tConvert: Make a wrapper script:

#!/bin/bash
####tConv-wrap.sh
#!/bin/bash
tConvert $1 $2
echo "${1#eg078f.ms_*} -> $2" >> pc-idi.txt
mv $1 msdone/

Run it in parallel: parallel –dry-run –eta –xapply ./tConv-wrap.sh {1} eg078f_{2}_1.IDI ::: eg078f.ms* ::: {2..699}