December 4, 2007 Training Materials

On December 4, 2007, we are holding CASA Training Mini-Camp in Socorro, New Mexico. This 1-day camp is aimed at introducing the AOC staff to CASA. See the announcement here.

Schedule: (all times are MST)

• 0900-1100: an introductory lecture and demonstration by Steve Myers in the AOC auditorium
• 1100-1600: experiment with CASA yourself; use a summer school dataset (see below) or your own dataset
• 1600-1645: science tea will be used for all scientific staff to discuss their impressions of, and experience with, CASA

Below are links to the talks and the relevant training materials:

• Lecture:
  • Introduction to CASA and Basic Data Reduction --- S. Myers (PDF)
• Demo Scripts:
  • NGC5921 Script (ngc5921_usecase.py)
  • Jupiter Script (jupiter6cm_usecase.py)
    • also see the jupiter6cm scripts broken out by operation (flagging,calib,imaging) here
• Demo Data:
  • NGC5921 VLA HI Line Data
  • Jupiter VLA Continuum Data
• Exercise Scripts:
  • 3C129 VLA Continuum Reduction Script (3c129_reduce.py courtesy David Whysong)
  • NGC2403 HI Line Reduction Script (ngc2403.py courtesy Gustaaf van Moorsel)
• Exercise Data:
  • 3C129 VLA Continuum Data
  • NGC2403 VLA HI Line Data

See also the materials from the 2007 October 16-18 CASA Training Camp.

Please send any comments or questions about CASA to casa-request@nrao.edu

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Modified on Tuesday, 04-Dec-2007 14:27:26 MST