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Offline Installation of <packages>
This guide helps package and install <package> on archie or any offline machine. It includes cop...
A Week in the Life of an I-LOFAR Chief Observer
This is a more simplified version of some of the pages David made and is meant to on board new ch...
Scheduling the Sun
As the Sun is regularly observed by I-LOFAR a script was made by Jessica Murphy to indicate the b...
Station Control from the LCU
LCU Commands Software Level Control processes in a LOFAR station are collected in groups call...
What is Mode 357?
LOFAR stations have two types of antenna. These are the Low-Band Antenna (LBA) array and the High...
Station Signal Processing Pipeline
1. Antennas LOFAR station is a wide-band radio receiver, which operates at the frequency range f...
Searching for Binary Pulsars
Upgrading OS on REALTA
First update everything, it’s great if this works with sudo apt update, but more than likely it w...
Interrupting Scheduled Observations
The interruptObs.sh script operates in one of two modes: focused and global. In focused mode, it ...
Processing Solar Data (Basic)
UPM Method Solar data is typically processed using udpPacketManager, to produce a Stokes IV outp...
Bash Aliases
LGC $ # Access the LCU while in local mode $ lcu $ # Access the Recording node (ucc1) $ uc...
Processing Pulsar Data
CDMT (Stokes I) Method The GPUs in ucc4 are typically used to reduce the majority of the pulsar ...
Preparing Observation Schedules
Scheduling Observations Observations are typically scheduled using scripts that execute the quic...
Preparing Observation Schedules With `prepquick.py`
The `prepquick.py` script can be used to generate a number of candidate observation windows, base...
Queuing an Observation Schedule
Working in the scheduling directory is strongly discouraged. It will very likely lead to frustrat...
Processing Other Data (EMPTY)
UPM Method
(Archived) Executing a Schedule and Processing Data
Running Observations Automatic Configuration on the LGC The observing process has been simplifi...
(Archived) Handling Combined Solar/KBT/Beamformed Observations
Scheduling Observations Observations are typically scheduled using the quicksched.py script foun...
(Archived) Handling KBT/Solar357 Observations (ScheduleKBT.py Method)
Running The Solar Observations Kaira Background Task (KBT) is the scheduling software used to ob...
Acronyms / Jargon / Etc
Machines LGC - Linux gateway computer, main node used to access the LCU and REALTA LCU - Linux ...