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Penthesilea

Framework for flexible, scalable platform independent radio interferometric simulation and reduction scripting. The simulations and reduction framework is largely based on Pyxis and Docker.

This project is funded by the SKA/AWS Astrocompute in the cloud initiative.

The docker images for this project can be found at: https://hub.docker.com/u/penthesilea

Native data products

For telescope simulations, the following telescopes are available:

Key	Array
meerkat	MeerKAT
kat-7	KAT-7
jvlaa	JVLA A Config
jvlab	JVLA B Config
jvlac	JVLA C Config
jvlad	JVLA D Config
wsrt	WSRT
ska1mid254	SKA1MID 254 dishes
ska1mid197	SKA1MID 197 dishes

And these are the native sky models:

Key	Array
nvss1deg	1 sq deg field from the NVSS catalogue
cosmos	field from JVLA COSMOS cataloge
ecdfs	field from JVLA ECDFS catalogue
xmm-lss	field from JVLA XMM-LSS catalogue

In both cases the telescope and the sky model can be referred to by its key from the appropriate configurations.

SEE THE TUTORIALS BELOW FOR EXAMPLES OF HOW TO USE PENTHESILEA

Tutorials

MeerKAT Simulation