Cotter is the name of André Offringa's pre-processing pipeline for MWA data. A description of cotter can be found in: The Low-Frequency Environment of the Murchison Widefield Array: Radio-Frequency Interference Analysis and Mitigation , Offringa et al., 2015, PASA, 32, e008. Cotter is was used by the MWA ASVO to run conversion jobs and is was also used by various MWA science teams to pre-process raw visibilities before passing the data onto their pipelines.
Cotter does not support the new MWAX data format introduced late 2021 and has several known bugs and issues.
The most important actions Cotter performs are (in order):
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