Rapthor: LOFAR DDE Pipeline

Rapthor is a tool for producing low-noise, high-resolution images from HBA LOFAR data.

Introduction

• Acknowledgements
• Capabilities of Rapthor
• Steps in a Rapthor reduction

Obtaining Rapthor

• Downloading and installing
• Changelog
  • Version 1.0
• Issues and feature requests

Setting Up and Running Rapthor

• Data preparation
  • Input measurement sets
  • Sky model
• The Rapthor parset
  • [global]
  • [calibration]
  • [imaging]
  • [cluster]
• Defining a custom processing strategy
• Hardware requirements
• Starting a Rapthor run
• Resuming an interrupted run
• Resetting an operation
• Output
• Tips for running Rapthor
• Getting Help

Rapthor Details

• General structure
• Operations
  • Calibrate
  • Predict
  • Image (+ mosaic)
• Python and CWL code
  • Python classes and modules
  • Python processing scripts
  • CWL pipelines