CASA for ALMA

Once ALMA is fully operational, data cubes or other fully-calibrated products will be available as outlined under ESO ALMA Regional Centre Data Product support. Astronomers should be able to use a variety of software packages for analysis or late-stage reprocessing (e.g. to change the resolution). CASA will be particularly suitable, as it contains tasks designed to handle ALMA data. It is easy to install locally or on a laptop and is supported by copious documentation, recipes and example scripts, see Using CASA. We will help develop scripts in response to the needs of the the UK ALMA community and other users of the expertise of the UK ARC node.

CASA will also be convenient for data publishing (see Current uses) and if there is a demand, we could provide a facility in Manchester for users to upload their data and run basic scripts remotely.