Components

TABASCAL uses a component-based model description. This means that various different models can be created where each model component can be selected freely in a configuration file. Therefore, each component should work with all others. There is a standard component class template where the base class is defined in Component

The components pass their results to one another through a shared state dictionary, along the edges of the graph below. Each component declares the state keys it reads as required_inputs and the keys it writes as output_shapes, and those declarations are checked against the configured model.components list when the model is assembled: a list that leaves out a component, or gives the right ones in the wrong order, is rejected by name before anything is computed.

• Base Component Class
• Trajectory Components
• RFI Signal Components
• RFI Visibility Calculation Components
• Astronomical Signal Components
• Astronomical Visibility Components
• Gain Components