Tools for working on filterbank data from the Low Frequency All Sky Monitor (LoFASM). LoFASM is a phased dipole antenna array designed to monitor the skies for radio transients. LoFASM's band of interest is 5-88MHz. LoFASM was built and designed by a group of students and professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville.
To install run the setup.py script with root permissions
sudo python setup.py install
This software has not been tested on Windows. If you get it working please let me know!
- numpy
- scipy
- astropy
- matplotlib
Once the LoFASM Tools have been installed you can check that they were installed correctly by plotting up a small test data set from LoFASM I in Port Mansfield, Texas.
The test data set is located at /path/to/lofasm/testdata/20150323_033624.lofasm,
where path/to/lofasm is the path to the cloned repo directory.
To plot the data open a terminal window and navigate to the clone directory. Once there execute
lofasm_plot.py -f testdata/20150323_033624.lofasm
to plot the test data. If you see an animated plot then the tools have been installed correctly. :)
Refer to the docs directory for more information.
Pushing directly to this repository is discouraged. Please fork this repo and push your changes to your own working copy. Once your code is ready to be added to the repo create a pull request so that I can merge it.