rsmpp v2.5.0

Changes from v2.4.2

• Any spare sub bands in interleaved mode can now be added to the last band when banding.
• When using LTA fetch mode, the pipeline will now automatically rename measurement sets to be sequential.
• rsmpp-rename.py updated to include renaming sequentially and sorting.
• March 2015 antenna correction added.
• Images produced now fully compatible with TraP (inc mosaics).
• New minbaseline option.
• lofar-imager.py updated to be fully compatible with TraP and now splits the measurement sets when imaging on short time-scales.
• Added script ‘fetch-cep2.py’ to make fetching data direct from CEP2 easy when needed.
• Github repository renamed to simply ‘rsmpp’.
• Minor code changes and tidy up.

rsmpp v2.4.1

Changes from v2.4.0

• Peeling fixed

rsmpp v2.4.0

Changes from v2.0.2

• rsmpp_hba.py and rsmpp_lba.py are now combined into one script - rsmpp.py.
• Addition of LTA Fetch mode which can be used to download and processes data directly from the LTA (also standalone version available).
• Possible to run phase-only calibration step on individual sub bands rather than concatenated sets.
• Automatic station flagging uses NDPPP (not msselect).
• Option to save datasets before flagging.
• Optional rfi-console step now included before phase calibration.
• Cobalt flagging of pre-processed data. (Experimental)
• Imaging now changed to two modes - ‘parset’ or ‘auto’ (VLSS resolution).
• Ability to image the final concatenated measurement sets (for snapshot style runs).
• Missing sub bands correctly accounted for when concatenating measurement sets in NDPPP.
• Able to use multiple user entered sky models for observations with multiple beams.

v2.0.2

Changes from v2.0.1

• Fixed user entered 'calmodel' option - default was stuck as 'AUTO'.

v2.0.1

Changes from v2.0.0

• Bug fix for LBA phase-only mode - specifically the band selection option.
• Fixed mosaicing - avgpbz was not running correctly and output organised.
• LBA e-mail notifications fixed.

v2.0.0

rsmpp v2.0.0

A new, leaner, more portable version of a LOFAR imaging pipeline.

User Guide

A full user guide for this version can be found here

Changes from v1.X.X

• No need to copy scripts to directory, the pipeline is run from it’s own location and is initialised.
• ‘Unlocked’ for all LOFAR environments.
• Parset file re-organised - some options moved under new processing header and some options re-named.
• MSSS Calibrator sky model components replace respective gsm.py compononents in generated sky models.
• nomask option renamed ‘mask' - having an option of ‘nomask’ made no sense!
• When mosaicing an option is available to select the radius used to clip the avgpb file by avgpbz.py.
• Code is now portable, all contained in one directory.
• Resume mode removed - Didn’t have complete functionality so removed (for now).
• Monitoring removed - made redundant by Ganglia.
• CASA imaging removed - no longer useful as AWimager is actually good now.