Potentially useful software packages

Table of contents

1. FITS
   1. FastFitsCutter
   2. Montage
2. LOFAR
   1. LOFAR H5plot
   2. LOFAR Helpers
   3. LoSiTo
   4. shadeMS

FITS

FastFitsCutter

A no-nonsense FITS cutout tool written in Rust for generating cutouts from a single FITS image.

https://github.com/tikk3r/FastFitsCutter

Montage

Powerful toolkit for assembling Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) images into custom mosaics.

http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/

LOFAR

LOFAR H5plot

A package to interactively explore LOFAR calibration solutions stored in HDF5 format.

https://github.com/tikk3r/lofar-h5plot

LOFAR Helpers

A collection of utility scripts useful for processing LOFAR data.

https://github.com/jurjen93/lofar_helpers

LoSiTo

The LOFAR Simulation Tool to help simulate LOFAR observations with various corrupting effects such as the ionosphere and bandpass.

https://github.com/darafferty/losito

shadeMS

A package to quickly plot visibilities from a Measurement Set.

https://github.com/ratt-ru/shadeMS