RFI Masker

Copyright (C) 2016  SKA South Africa

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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Tiny tool to apply a numpy boolean array to the spectral flags column of a measurement set to mask out known RFI sources like GSM and satelite in L-band. Typically flagging known RFI sources produces much better backgrounds and tools like the mighty AOFlagger RFI hammer needs fewer iterations to converge to good solutions.

To develop

python setup.py develop --user
(assumes .local/bin is in your PATH and .local/lib/python2.7/site-packages is in your PYTHONPATH)

Users

Preferred run method

docker build -t rfi_masker (inside cloned folder)
docker run -it --rm rfi_masker (anywhere)

Install (if you're yet to discover the pure awesomeness of Docker)

python setup.py install --user
(assumes .local/bin is in your PATH and .local/lib/python2.7/site-packages is in your PYTHONPATH)