UCL ALMA workshop

One-day workshop on using CASA interferometry data reduction software and using ALMA

Participants are welcome at any level of experience. We will concentrate on ALMA data reduction but if you want to try your own interferometry data please let us know what instrument was used and we will tell you if it is likely to be a good candidate for processing in CASA.  Contact alma@jb.man.ac.uk with any questions about ALMA/CASA.

Provisional agenda

NGC 3256

We suggest that you read through the link given in the agenda.

Apologies for the bug at the workshop in subtracting the continuum. The  NGC 3256 CASA Guide has now been updated if you want to try again.

The first stages of data reduction apply instrumental calibration but do not require much user input. To save time (and data volume), we will start after this, using ngc3256_line_concat.tgz

In the NGC 3256 Calibration CASA Guide we will start at the point where it says:

"We run a listobs on the resulting concatenated data set to check contains the fields, spectral windows and observing times that we expected"

You can, of course, run the whole process yourself beforehand if you wish.  You will need at least 4 G to run the workshop section comfortably or 10 G or more for the whole script.