Main developer:
- Francesco de Gasperin
Contributed code:
- David Rafferty
- 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 acknowledge it with "This work has made use of the Lofar Solution Tool (LoSoTo), developed by F. de Gasperin."
Install:
- Get LoSoTo from https://github.com/revoltek/losoto
- Install losoto by simply: python setup.py install --prefix=~/mydir/
- Alternatively: pip install --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/losoto2.parset
- in case of problems write to Francesco de Gasperin: [email protected]
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/: containts all the modules for operations
- parsets/: some examples parsets
- tools/: contains some external tools
Required packages:
- PyTables version: >3.0.0
- HDF5 version: >1.8.4
- NumPy version: >1.9.0
- configparser (backport from python 3.0 if using python 2.7)