This package collects together tools for radio astronomical interferometry. In addition to pure-python phasing, calibration, imaging, and deconvolution code, this package includes interfaces to MIRIAD (a Fortran interferometry package) and HEALPix (a package for representing spherical data sets).
Instructions, documentation, and a FAQ may be found at the aipy GitHub page.
We strongly recommend installing AIPY with the conda packaging tool using the public conda-forge package repository:
$ conda install -c conda-forge aipy
As of the 3.0.x version series, AIPY supports both Python 3 and Python 2.
You can also install with pip if you wish:
$ pip install aipy
To install the source code in development mode, use:
$ pip install -e .
$ python setup.py build_ext --inplace
If you want to build HTML documentation, you'll need to have
Sphinx installed. Then, change to the doc/
directory and run:
$ make html
The results will appear in doc/build/html. There are plenty of other
build options, too. Many thanks to Jayce Dowell for his work on this.
Enjoy, Aaron Parsons
The miriad source code (aipy/miriad/mirsrc) was included from MIRIAD 4.0.5.
To update, download a MIRIAD distribution and copy $MIR/src/subs/* and
$MIR/src/inc/* into aipy/miriad/mirsrc.
Healpix source code (aipy/healpix/cxx) was included from Healpix 2.01. To
update, download a HEALPix distribution and copy src/cxx into
aipy/healpix.
To make a release of aipy (both on Github and PyPI), head to the most current
Draft Release and note the suggested
release version. Contact the maintainers with your intention to make a release either
to that version (or, if appropriate, to a different version), and publish the release
via the Github UI. All done!