Welcome to Genvalobs / momxml’s documentation!

The genvalobs program is a Python script that generates an XML file containing MoM specifications for a set of system validation observations for LOFAR. One can specify a target source (Cyg A, Vir A, 3C 196, Cas A), and a planned start date in UTC. The script will then generate an XML file with observations for all desired observing modes, using the specified target source and a given duration per observation and interval between observations.

Genvalobs is based on the momxml library (included in this package), which can be used to write your own python scripts to generate XML files that can be imported to LOFAR’s MoM system.

Extensive documentation can be found in the doc/ directory. The generated HTML documentation is found in doc/_build/html/

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