LoSiTo

The LOFAR simulation tool

LoSiTo is a Python package that can be used to produce simulated LOFAR visibilities with a variety of corruptions and effects.

It includes:

• Time- and direction-dependent ionospheric effects (TEC and rotation measure)
• Beam effects
• Station-based delay effects (clock and polarization misalignment)
• Realistic noise

Furthermore, LoSiTo features the simulation of LOFAR2.0 simultaneous LBA-HBA observations.

The full documentation can be found at the LoSiTo webpage.

Software requirements:

• casacore and python-casacore
• DPPP
• LoSoTo
• RMextract
• LSMTool
• Python (including scipy, numpy, and astropy)

Installation

The recommended way to install LoSiTo is to download it from github and install with:

git clone https://github.com/darafferty/losito.git
cd losito
python setup.py install --prefix=~/mydir/

Directory Structure

LoSiTo contains the following sub-directories:

• bin the losito main program and a number of scripts for your convenience
• data data files for the bandpass
• examples example parsets
• losito the losito Python files

LoSiTo was developed by:

• David Rafferty
• Henrik Edler
• Francesco de Gasperin

with contributed code from:

• Maaijke Mevius
• Peter Dorman