Plotting and Flagging Visibility Data in CASA

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The tasks available for plotting and flagging of data are:

flagmanager — manage versions of data flags (§ 3.2)
plotms — create X-Y plots of data in MS, flag data (§ 3.3.1)
plotxy — older X-Y plotter with some functionalities not yet implemented in plotms (§ 3.3.2)
tflagdata --- Data Flagging (will replace flagdata, flagdata2, testautoflag, flagautocorr) (§ 3.4)
flagcmd --- manipulate and apply flags using FLAG_CMD table (§ 3.5)
flagdata2 --- non-interactive flagging of data (will be deprecated in CASA 3.5.) (§ 3.6)
flagautocorr --- non-interactive flagging of auto-correlations (will be deprecated in CASA 3.5.) (§ 3.7)
browsetable --- browse data in any CASA table (including a MS) (§ 3.8)
plotants --- create simple plots of antenna positions (§ 3.3.3)

The following sections describe the use of these tasks.

Information on other related operations can be found in:

listobs — list summary of a MS (§ 2.2.6)
listvis — list data in a MS (§ 2.2.7)
selectdata — general data selection syntax (§ 2.3)
viewer — use the casaviewer to display the MS as a raster image, and flag it (§ 7)

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