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:

• If you use LoSoTo for your data reduction, please cite: de Gasperin et al. 2019, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 622, id.A5 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A&A...622A...5D/abstract)

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:

• Documentation of LoSoTo API is at: http://revoltek.github.io/losoto/losoto.html
• A detailed explanation of all the parameters is at: http://revoltek.github.io/losoto/losoto.operations.html
• A few important articles/how-to are on the github wiki: https://github.com/revoltek/losoto/wiki

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)