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LoSoTo: LOFAR solutions tool

Main developer:

  • Francesco de Gasperin

Contributed code:

  • David Rafferty
  • Henrik Edler
  • Maaijke Mevius
  • Jose Sabater Montes
  • Martin Hardcastle
  • Andreas Horneffer
  • and the LOFAR Survey Key Science Project

Cite:

Install:

  • Install latest official release of LoSoTo from PyPI: pip install --upgrade losoto
  • Or, install latest development version of LoSoTo from GitHub: pip install --upgrade --user https://github.com/revoltek/losoto/archive/master.zip
  • Or clone the LoSoTo repository from https://github.com/revoltek/losoto, and install LoSoTo using: python setup.py install --prefix=~/mydir/
  • Prepare a parset file, which can be based on the file parset/losoto2.parset
  • In case of problems write to Francesco de Gasperin: [email protected]

H5parm plotter (GUI):

This is an external project maintained by Frits Sweijen: https://github.com/tikk3r/lofar-h5plot

Documentation:

Contents:

  • bin/: the losoto executable and some manipulators for H5parms
  • docs/: documentation
  • examples/: some examples h5parm to use with validation/test parsets
  • losoto/operations/: contains all the modules for operations
  • parsets/: some examples parsets
  • tools/: contains some external tools

Required packages:

  • Python 3
  • PyTables version: >3.4.0
  • HDF5 version: >1.8.4
  • NumPy version: >1.9.0
  • Scipy >1.4 (for interpolatedirections)