Source code for hide.beam.airy_disk

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'''
Created on Apr 25, 2016

author: jakeret
'''
from __future__ import print_function, division, absolute_import, unicode_literals

from hide.beam import airy

[docs]def load_beam_profile(beam_spec, frequencies, params): """ Creates a 2d airy disk beam profile for the given params definition :param params: The params instance with the paramterization :returns profile: A list of callable beam profiles """ beam_profiles = [] beam_norms = [] for frequency in frequencies: la = params.speed_of_light / (frequency * 10**6) fwhm = 1.22 * la / params.dish_diameter beam_profiles.append(airy.airy_wrapper(fwhm)) beam_norms.append(airy.normalization(fwhm, params.beam_nside)) return beam_profiles, beam_norms