vla_selfcal

Self-calibration pipeline to process VLA data, using CASA tools and WSClean.

Install the prerequisite software:

-Singularity -Singularity container from https://tikk3r.github.io/flocs/ -CASA -Python (version 3 and above)

Running instructions

Initiate a CASA environment module load casa

Ensure that PYTHONPATH points to the CASA installation python

export PYTHONPATH="/soft/casa-latest/bin/python3"

Edit vla_selfcal.py so that singularity and CASA paths point to your installations. Place paths to MS and output directories

Run

python3 vla_selfcal.py