LoSoTo: LOFAR solutions tool
Main developer:
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: astro@voo.it
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)