clean up the ray-tracer trough the ionosphere
(this description is extracted from a slack conversation)
general
the ray-tracer is here: https://gitlab.irf.se/danielk/sorts/-/blob/develop/src/sorts/errors/ionospheric_ray_trace.py?ref_type=heads
it is using the pyglow
model to get the ionosphere parameter that can be used to get a "refractive index" for radio waves
stuff to improve:
- there are lots of 1 and 2 character variable names in there that should be described or more verbose
- it needs some comments
- it has hard-coded constants, code that could probably be separated out to functions
- the deviation of the k-vector (direction of propagation) due to ray-bending is not returned, (just the angle is returned)
- might run not at the moment