/owlcat

miscellaneous utility scripts for manipulating radio interferometry data

Primary LanguagePython

Installing Owlcat

Prerequisites

  • Assorted python packages: pyfits, numpy, matplotlib, casacore, pyrap.

There are debian packages available for casacore and pyrap at:

https://launchpad.net/~ska-sa/+archive/main

Getting Owlcat

Download the tarball or do a git checkout from:

https://github.com/ska-sa/owlcat

Installing Olwcat

to intall the package run:

$ python setup.py install

Or add the source to your PYTHONPATH.

Running Owlcat

Currently, the most useful script in Owlcat is plot-ms.py. See

http://www.astron.nl/meqwiki-data/users/oms/Owlcat-plotms-tutorial.purrlog/

for examples. If you need quick deterministic flagging, try flag-ms.py.

Questions or problems?

Just e-mail Oleg Smirnov osmirnov@gmail.com or open an issue on Github.

Development

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