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The AOFlagger is a tool that can find and remove radio-frequency interference (RFI) in radio astronomical observations. The code has been highly optimized for speed and accuracy. It is used by default for the LOFAR radio telescope and thus is in productional stage. The software can run in a fully automated way, but a graphical interface is provided to analyse results and tweak the strategy. The preferred input file format is the Casa Measurement Set (MS) format.

This package contains the header file to compile own programs against the library.

• A. R. Offringa, A. G. de Bruyn, M. Biehl, S. Zaroubi, G. Bernardi and V. N. Pandey: Post-correlation radio frequency interference classification methods. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 405:155 - 167 (2010) (eprint)

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The casacore package contains the core libraries of the old AIPS++/CASA (Common Astronomy Software Applications) package. This split was made to get a better separation of core libraries and applications.

This package contains the files for application development.

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PURIFY is a collection of routines written in C that implements different tools for radio interferometric imaging including file handling (for both visibilities and fits files), implementation of the measurement operator and set-up of the different optimization problems used for image deconvolution. The code calls the generic Sparse OPTimization (SOPT) package to solve the imaging optimization problems.

This package contains the development files.

• Luke Pratley, Jason D. McEwen, Mayeul d'Avezac, Rafael E. Carrillo, Alexandru Onose and Yves Wiaux: Robust sparse image reconstruction of radio interferometric observations with PURIFY. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., submitted (2016) (eprint)

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PURIFY is a collection of routines written in C that implements different tools for radio interferometric imaging including file handling (for both visibilities and fits files), implementation of the measurement operator and set-up of the different optimization problems used for image deconvolution. The code calls the generic Sparse OPTimization (SOPT) package to solve the imaging optimization problems.

• Luke Pratley, Jason D. McEwen, Mayeul d'Avezac, Rafael E. Carrillo, Alexandru Onose and Yves Wiaux: Robust sparse image reconstruction of radio interferometric observations with PURIFY. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., submitted (2016) (eprint)

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The casacore package contains the core libraries of the old AIPS++/CASA package. This split was made to get a better separation of core libraries and applications. CASA is now built on top of casacore.

This is the Python wrapper around the library.

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The spectral-cube package provides an easy way to read, manipulate, analyze, and write data cubes with two positional dimensions and one spectral dimension, optionally with Stokes parameters. It aims to be a versatile data container for building custom analysis routines.

• A. Ginsburg, T. Robitaille, C. Beaumont, E. Rosolowsky, A. Leroy, C. Brogan, T. Hunter, P. Teuben and D. Brisbin: Radio Astronomy Tools in Python: Spectral-cube, pvextractor, and more. Revolution in Astronomy with ALMA: The Third Year :363 (2015) (eprint)

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WSClean (w-stacking clean) is a fast generic widefield imager. It uses the w-stacking algorithm and can make use of the w-snapshot algorithm. As of Feb 2014, it is 2-12 times faster than CASA's w-projection, depending on the array configuration. It supports full-sky imaging and proper beam correction for homogeneous dipole arrays such as the MWA.

WSClean allows Hogbom and Cotton-Schwab cleaning, and can clean polarizations joinedly. All operations are performed on the CPU (it is not specialized for GPUs).

This package contains the static library and the header file to compile own programs against the library.

• A. R. Offringa, B. McKinley, N. Hurley-Walker, F. H. Briggs, R. B. Wayth, D. L. Kaplan, M. E. Bell, L. Feng, A. R. Neben, J. D. Hughes, J. Rhee, T. Murphy, N. D. R. Bhat, G. Bernardi, J. D. Bowman, R. J. Cappallo, B. E. Corey, A. A. Deshpande, D. Emrich, A. Ewall-Wice, B. M. Gaensler, R. Goeke, L. J. Greenhill, B. J. Hazelton, L. Hindson, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. C. Jacobs, J. C. Kasper, E. Kratzenberg, E. Lenc, C. J. Lonsdale, M. J. Lynch, S. R. McWhirter, D. A. Mitchell, M. F. Morales, E. Morgan, N. Kudryavtseva, D. Oberoi, S. M. Ord, B. Pindor, P. Procopio, T. Prabu, J. Riding, D. A. Roshi, N. U. Shankar, K. S. Srivani, R. Subrahmanyan, S. J. Tingay, M. Waterson, R. L. Webster, A. R. Whitney, A. Williams and C. L. Williams: WSCLEAN: an implementation of a fast, generic wide-field imager for radio astronomy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 444:606 - 619 (2014) (eprint)

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Aperture synthesis or synthesis imaging is a type of interferometry that mixes signals from a collection of telescopes to produce images having the same angular resolution as an instrument the size of the entire collection. At each separation and orientation, the lobe-pattern of the interferometer produces an output which is one component of the Fourier transform of the spatial distribution of the brightness of the observed object. The image (or "map") of the source is produced from these measurements. Astronomical interferometers are commonly used for high-resolution optical, infrared, submillimetre and radio astronomy observations.

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The OSKAR package consists of a number of open source libraries and applications for the simulation of astronomical radio interferometers. OSKAR has been designed primarily to produce simulated data from large aperture arrays, such as those envisaged for the SKA.

• F. Dulwich, B. J. Mort, S. Salvini, K. Zarb Adami and M. E. Jones: OSKAR: Simulating Digital Beamforming for the SKA Aperture Array. Wide Field Astronomy & Technology for the Square Kilometre Array :31 (2009) (eprint)

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SAGECal is a very fast, memory efficient and GPU accelerated radio interferometric calibration program. It can handle all source models including points, Gaussians and Shapelets. It can calibrate along hundreds of directions without running out of memory in almost real time. Intel Xeon Phi acceleration is also available. Distributed calibration using MPI and consensus optimization is enabled. Also tools to build/restore sky models are included.

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