LOFAR beam measurements L126816

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AntennaSet HBA_DUAL
Filter HBA_110_190
Field Cyg A field 001
Subband [239]
ObservationDate 2013-04-19
AntennaArray HBA
cs001c0 cs001c1 cs002c0 cs002c1 cs003c0 cs003c1 cs004c0
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data
cs004c1 cs005c0 cs005c1 cs006c0 cs006c1 cs007c0 cs007c1
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data
cs011c0 cs011c1 cs013c0 cs013c1 cs017c0 cs017c1 cs021c0
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data
cs021c1 cs024c0 cs024c1 cs026c0 cs026c1 cs028c0 cs028c1
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data
cs030c0 cs030c1 cs031c0 cs031c1 cs032c0 cs032c1 cs101c0
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data
cs101c1 cs103c0 cs103c1 cs201c0 cs201c1 cs301c0 cs301c1
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data
cs302c0 cs302c1 cs401c0 cs401c1 cs501c0 cs501c1 de601c
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data
de602c de603c de604c de605c fr606c rs106c rs205c
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data
rs208c rs210c rs305c rs306c rs307c rs310c rs406c
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data
rs407c rs409c rs503c rs508c rs509c se607c uk608c
no data no data no data no data no data no data no data

Each pixel in a plot corresponds to a single pointing of a 225-beam observation. The x and y axes are in degrees, and represent offsets from the central pixel which is at the coordinates of CygA. The range in each plot is set to scale between 0 and the maximum gain for that station. White pixels correspond to pointings which did not record data to disk (usually due to cluster problems). The four subplots correspond to the four (complex) elements of the Jones matrix that we assume describes the beam response. Only the amplitude is plotted.