pspipe

pspipe is the data-analysis pipeline used by the LOFAR Epoch of Reionization and NenuFAR Cosmic Dawn projects. It turns calibrated low-frequency radio MeasurementSets into images, weighted Kelvin visibility cubes, power spectra, and foreground-separated products. It tracks observations and processing revisions so that large, multi-night analyses remain reproducible.

It provides two commands:

psdb creates configurations and manages observations and processing revisions;
pspipe runs processing tasks on observations registered in that database.

The pipeline uses WSClean for imaging and ps_eor for cubes, flagging, power spectra, and ML-GPR. Optional MeasurementSet-processing tasks also call DP3 and NenuCal.

Documentation

The pspipe documentation follows the complete workflow from installation and calibrated MeasurementSets to images, visibility cubes, power spectra, multi-night combinations, and foreground removal. New users should begin with the getting-started page and then follow the user guide.

The documentation also includes the full configuration, command-line, and Python API references.

Installation

pspipe requires Python 3.10 or newer:

pip install pspipe

For ML-GPR:

pip install "pspipe[ml-gpr]"

Minimal workflow

After installation, create a workspace, register an observation, make its images, and convert them to visibility cubes:

mkdir pspipe-analysis && cd pspipe-analysis
psdb init nenufar /path/to/analysis-data first_run
psdb add_obs first_run.toml NIGHT_001 -m /path/to/ms_lists/NIGHT_001
psdb list_all_obs first_run.toml
pspipe image first_run.toml NIGHT_001
psdb list_rev_img first_run.toml -o NIGHT_001
pspipe gen_vis_cube first_run.toml NIGHT_001

Review the generated configuration before running: in particular the MeasurementSet data column, image and cube UV ranges, field of view, frequency bins, window, and primary beam. Inspect the FITS images and visibility cubes between stages; the separate commands above make those validation gates explicit. Once a setup is established, tasks can be chained with commas. The user guide continues from this point by loading the visibility data and producing power spectra from Python.

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