Authors:
- Francesco de Gasperin (main developer)
- David Rafferty (h5parm exporter)
- Maaijke Mevius (CT separation)
- Jose Sabater Montes
- Martin Hardcastle
- Andreas Horneffer
Contents:
- doc/: documentation
- examples/: some examples h5parm to use with validation/test parsets
- operations/: containts all the modules for operations
- parsets/: some examples parsets
- tools/: contains some tools, mostly to convert back and forward from parmdb to h5parm
Install:
- Get LoSoTo from https://github.com/revoltek/losoto
- Install losoto by simply: python setup.py install --prefix=~/mydir/
- Alternatively: pip install --allow-external --upgrade --user https://github.com/revoltek/losoto/archive/master.zip
- In cep3 use the copy of the code in ~fdg/scripts/losoto/ (source the tool/lofarinit.[c]sh file which is shipped with the code)
- Prepare a parset starting from the parset/losoto.parset
- in case of problems write to Francesco de Gasperin: astro@voo.it
Flag: LoSoTo has an internl flag system encoded in the weight column. Weights are not currently used but some tasks set them to 0 to "flag" a datapoint. Flagged datapoints are then saved as NaNs by the H5parm_exporter.py
Documentation: Documentation extracted from the LOFAR cookbook is present in the doc directory A detailed explanation of all the parameters for each operation is in: parsets/losoto.parset
Used packages:
- PyTables version: 3.2.2
- HDF5 version: 1.8.4
- NumPy version: 1.9.0
- Python version: 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41) [GCC 4.4.3]
- Platform: linux2-x86_64
- Byte-ordering: little
- Default encoding: ascii