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CASA (Common Astronomy Software Applications) is a comprehensive software package to calibrate, image, and analyze radioastronomical data from interferometers (such as ALMA and EVLA, both shown at right) as well as single dish telescopes. This wiki provides examples and hints for reducing data in CASA.

CASA Events

15-17 Jan 2011: ALMA: Extending the Limits of Astrophysical Spectroscopy

12 Jan 2011: Observing with ALMA - Special Session - 217th AAS Meeting

8-15 Jun 2010: Twelfth Synthesis Imaging Workshop

CASA News

20 June 2010: CASA 3.0.2 is now available from casa.nrao.edu.

04 Jan 2010: ALMA attains phase closure

Featured article

Calibrating a CARMA Mosaicked Spectral Line Dataset

Using CASA

• CASA Homepage
• What is CASA?
• Getting Started in CASA
• Installing CASA
• CASA Reference Manuals

• AIPS-to-CASA Cheat Sheet
• Hints, Tips, & Tricks
• CASA python script list for special applications

Interactive Tools in CASA

• CASA viewer demonstration video
• Data flagging with viewer
• Data flagging with plotms

• Averaging data in plotms
• Axis definitions in plotms

Data Reduction Guides

• Extracting scripts from these tutorials

• ALMA Guides
  • ALMA Quick Reference
  • ALMA Sensitivity Calculator
  • Current MM/Submm Guides

• EVLA Guides
  • Tutorials
  • Hints, Tips, & Tricks

• VLA Guides
  • Tutorials
  • Hints, Tips, & Tricks

• CARMA Guides
  • Tutorials
  • Hints, Tips, & Tricks

• SMA Guides
  • Tutorials

Simulated Observations

• Simulating Observations in CASA
• Simulated ALMA Observation of M51 at z = 0.1 and z = 0.3

Indices

• List of All Articles
• Index by Category

Authors

• MediaWiki markup language
• CASAGuides Instructions for Authors