Installing the LOFAR Software at external computing facilities

This page will redirect you to build instructions for the LOFAR common software packages.

LOFAR Beam formed / pulsar tools

A GitHub repository of scripts to use for analysis of beam formed / pulsar data. Available here.

LOFAR Imaging Software (external packages)

A collection of links of documented data reduction tools developed and maintained by external experienced users. The general repository is available here. Specific ones are listed below:

• Dysco (a compressing storage manager for Casacore measurement sets)
• LoSoTo (LOFAR solutions tool)
• LSM Tool (LOFAR Local Sky Model Tool)
• PyBDSF (Python Blob Detector and Source Finder)
• RMextract (extract TEC, vTEC, Earth magnetic field and Rotation Measures from GPS and WMM data for radio interferometry observations)
• Sagecal (GPU/MIC accelerated radio interferometric calibration program)
• WSClean (fast widefield interferometric imager)

LOFAR (Generic) Pipeline Framework

Documentation about how to define a pipeline for the execution with the Generic Pipeline Framework is available here.

LOFAR Imaging Pipelines

Several imaging pipelines are available for processing LOFAR LBA and HBA data.

• Factor (Facet calibration for LOFAR)
• Long Baseline Generic Pipeline (a generic pieline implementation of the LOFAR long baseline pipeline reduction) documentation can be found here.
• prefactor (Pre facet calibration pipeline)
• Pill (pipeline for LOFAR LBA imaging data reduction - under development)
• DDFacet (direction dependent calibration software used for the LOTSS survey)

LOFAR User Script Repository

A GitHub repository of 3rd party contributions for LOFAR data processing. Available here.

Running LOFAR imaging pipelines using Docker/Singularity

Available here.