DP3 version 4.2
This release contains a year worth of incremental improvements compared to the v4.1 branch. It is planned to be the last version that uses the LOFARBeam library. Instead, future releases will make use of the EveryBeam library, which contains the same functionality and adds support for other telescopes.
A summary of the changes:
- DDECal prediction using IDG, with spectral multi-term support
- Fixes to support latest casacore version
- Fixes to support g++ 10
- A 'setbeam' step to change metadata
- Improved error handling / reporting
- Better documentation
- More and improved unit tests
- Switched to Python 3
- Improved selection of reference antenna
- Bugfix: incorrect weighting of auto-correlations causes Dysco-compression to malfunction
- Add option msin.starttimeslot