AIPY (Astronomical Interferometry in PYthon)

Description

This package collects together tools for radio astronomical interferometry. In addition to pure-python phasing, calibration, imaging, and deconvolution code, this package includes interfaces to MIRIAD (a Fortran interferometry package) and HEALPix (a package for representing spherical data sets).

Instructions, documentation, and a FAQ may be found at the aipy GitHub page.

Installation

We strongly recommend installing AIPY with the conda packaging tool using the public conda-forge package repository:

$ conda install -c conda-forge aipy

As of the 3.0.x version series, AIPY supports both Python 3 and Python 2.

You can also install with pip if you wish:

$ pip install aipy

To install the source code in development mode, use:

$ pip install -e .
$ python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Documentation

If you want to build HTML documentation, you'll need to have Sphinx installed. Then, change to the doc/ directory and run:

$ make html

The results will appear in doc/build/html. There are plenty of other build options, too. Many thanks to Jayce Dowell for his work on this.

Enjoy, Aaron Parsons

Package Info for Developers

The miriad source code (aipy/miriad/mirsrc) was included from MIRIAD 4.0.5. To update, download a MIRIAD distribution and copy $MIR/src/subs/* and $MIR/src/inc/* into aipy/miriad/mirsrc.

Healpix source code (aipy/healpix/cxx) was included from Healpix 2.01. To update, download a HEALPix distribution and copy src/cxx into aipy/healpix.

Making Releases (for Maintainers)

To make a release of aipy (both on Github and PyPI), head to the most current Draft Release and note the suggested release version. Contact the maintainers with your intention to make a release either to that version (or, if appropriate, to a different version), and publish the release via the Github UI. All done!