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+git clone git@gitlab.aei.uni-hannover.de:einsteinathome/pulsatingscience.git
+
+git checkout -b antenna-patterns origin/antenna-patterns
+
+Mac instructions
+(1) Get the executable from
+    www.atlas.aei.uni-hannover.de/~ballen/LSC/GW170817.app.tar
+
+(2) To install the app:
+    tar xvf GW170817.app.tar
+
+(3) Download and install the Qt framework.  Either:
+    use MacPorts to install the qt4-mac package:
+    port install qt4-mac
+
+    OR run the Qt framework installer here:
+    http://download.qt.io/archive/qt/4.8/4.8.6/qt-opensource-mac-4.8.6-1.dmg
+
+(4) open GW170817.app
+
+Linux instructions
+
+(1) Get the executable from
+    www.atlas.aei.uni-hannover.de/~ballen/LSC/GW170817
+
+(2) Make it executable:
+    chmod +x GW170817
+
+(3) Linux: use your distribution's package manager and install libqt4-opengl
+    (incl. libqtcore4 and libqtgui4)
+    For example on Debian: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libqt4-opengl
+