OSKAR: A GPU-accelerated simulator for the Square Kilometre Array

OSKAR has been designed to produce simulated visibility data from radio telescopes containing aperture arrays, such as those envisaged for the Square Kilometre Array.

A source code archive, and pre-built binary packages for Linux (using Singularity), macOS and Windows platforms are available to download from

• https://github.com/OxfordSKA/OSKAR/releases

OSKAR is licensed under the terms of the 3-clause BSD License, and makes use of a number of third-party libraries. Please see the OSKAR documentation for license details of third-party libraries used by OSKAR.

Documentation

Package documentation is built automatically as part of the GitLab CI/CD pipeline, and can be viewed at

• https://ska-telescope.gitlab.io/sim/oskar/

Installation Guide

If compiling from source, see the Installation Guide in the documentation.