First Manchester ARC Node workshop

CASA workshop 15 June 2009

Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester

11 am to (about) 4 pm

Aim: To allow ARC and related staff to become familiar with CASA

Tutors: Anita Richards, Sandra Etoka

Attendees:  Emily Curtis (Cambridge), Roger Deane and Ian Heywood (Oxford), Danielle Fenech (UCL), Neal Jackson, Cormac Purcell, Rob Beswick, Tom Muxlow (Manchester)

CASA downloads

CASA Cookbook

Please see the official CASA pages for up to date releases.

The CASA installations contain sample data and scripts.  We will mostly be using the VLA Jupiter example (calibration, editing, imaging, polarization) and the BIMA NGC 4826 example (spectral line, mosaicing).  Once you have downloaded and unzipped/extracted CASA, look in lib/python2.5/regressions for ngc4826_tutorial.py and jupiter6cm_demo.py.  You can get the data from http://casa.nrao.edu/Data/BIMA/NGC4826/ngc4826.fitsfiles.tgz and http://casa.nrao.edu/Data/VLA/Planets6cm/planets_6cm.fits

Sample MERLIN data and script

Sample ATCA data and script

Follow-up

Many thanks to all who attended.  Here are the presentations:

Introduction to CASA (A M S Richards) including Feedback

CASA in Practice (S Etoka)