Commissioning the First Station of the Long Wavelength Array

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The Long Wavelength Array (LWA, http://lwa.unm.edu/) is a low frequency array operating between 10 and 88 MHz being constructed in New Mexico, USA. The first station of the LWA, LWA-1, consists of 256 dual polarization dipoles that can be sampled independently or combined together into four electronically steerable beams. A second station, LWA-2, is also being constructed and currently consists of 20 dual polarization dipoles. I will discuss the current status of commissioning the instrument and show early results from both stations.
I will also provide an overview of the LWA Software Library (LSL, http://fornax.phys.unm.edu/lwa/trac/wiki) that is being developed. LSL is a general purpose Python module that runs on Linux and Mac OSX platforms. The library provides a variety of visualization and analysis tools for the various LWA data products. Some of the tasks which users can accomplish within the LSL framework include working with LWA data in the time or frequency domain, identifying RFI, forming images, and applying incoherent de-dispersion to pulsar data. LSL also provides facilities for converting the LWA data products into forms readable by other popular analysis packages.

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