Direction-dependent calibration for Apertif. The pipeline is based on the LOFAR Default Preprocessing Pipeline (DPPP/DP3 van Diepen et al. 2018) and the wsclean imaging package (Offringa et al. 2014). It is recommended to use Docker container with the LOFAR tools installed. See the Dockerfile.
Direction-dependent calibration for Apertif. The pipeline is based on the LOFAR Default Preprocessing Pipeline (DPPP/DP3, van Diepen et al. 2018) and the wsclean imaging package (Offringa et al. 2014). It is recommended to use Docker container with the LOFAR tools installed. See the Dockerfile.
Usage:
Usage:
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The config file `imcal.yml` has sections for every step with the corresponding parameters.
The config file `imcal.yml` has sections for every step with the corresponding parameters.
Most of the parameters have explicit comments inside the config file.
Most of the parameters have explicit comments inside the config file.
For example the initial section *split* allows splitting the data by providing _startchan_ and _nchan_ parameters.
For example the initial section *split* allows splitting the data by providing _startchan_ and _nchan_ parameters.
The next section, *nvss*, can be used for preliminary phase calibration against the NVSS catalog...
The next section, *nvss*, can be used for preliminary phase calibration against the NVSS catalog (Condon et al. 1998).
