Welcome to LOFAR Imaging Cookbook’s documentation!

This web site can also be downloaded as a pdf LOFARImagingCookbook_latest.pdf.

Contents:

• Introduction to LOFAR computing facilities
• Data inspection
• AOFlagger
• The Default Pre-Processing Pipeline (DPPP)
• Gain calibration with DPPP
• LoSoTo: LOFAR Solution Tool
• The WSClean Imager
• Source detection and sky model manipulation: PyBDSF and LSMTool
• Factor: Facet Calibration for LOFAR
• Useful resources
• Calibration with BBS
• Sky Model Construction Using Shapelets
• SAGECAL
• Running LOFAR imaging pipelines using Docker/Singularity
• LOFAR Unified Calculator for Imaging (LUCI)
• The AW Imager
• Practical examples
• Acknowledgements
• Changelog