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Welcome to CASA Guides CASA (Common Astronomy Software Applications) is a comprehensive software package to calibrate, image, and analyze radioastronomical data from interferometers (such as ALMA and VLA, both shown below) as well as single dish telescopes. This wiki provides examples and hints for reducing data in CASA. CASA News 20 October 2017: CASA Release 5.1.1 is now available 26 September 2017: CASA Newsletter #5 Events 23-27 October 2017: 6th VLA Data Reduction Workshop (NRAO Socorro, NM) Using CASA CASA Basics CASA Homepage Information on the latest releases, documentation, and support CASA mailing lists Please subscribe to receive information on releases, critical bugs, etc. Installing CASA Where to obtain CASA, and how to install it in different operating systems Overviews Guide to CASA syntax, task execution, and scripting CASA calibration, imaging, and a description of basic tasks CASA Python Overview Includes basics of python, and guides to arrays and plotting CASA Documentation CASA Reference Manual & Cookbook HTML and the PDF Version CASA Task Reference CASA Toolkit Manual Hints, Tips, & Tricks Task-specific tutorials to use CASA like a pro Selecting Spectral Windows and Channels CASA Region Format (CASA 3.3+) Data flagging with plotms Data flagging with viewer CASA User Contributed Scripts and Tasks Aligning, mosaicking, stitching, plotting weather, and more AIPS-to-CASA Cheat Sheet CASA Related Lectures Lectures from the most recent Synthesis Imaging Workshop (June 2012) Lectures from the EVLA spring 2012 Data Reduction Workshop Lectures from the NAASC/ALMA Dec. 2011 Data Reduction Workshop Information for Authors MediaWiki markup language CASAGuides Instructions for Authors 684 articles since July 2009. Consult the Wiki User's Guide for information on using the wiki software. CASA Tutorials ALMA Guides/Tutorials Karl G. Jansky VLA Tutorials Simulating Observations pre-upgrade VLA Tutorials ATCA Tutorials CARMA Tutorials SMA Tutorials Extracting Scripts from Tutorials   Useful Links CASA homepage CASA Reference Manual & Cookbook my.nrao.edu - Your Portal to NRAO Services NRAO Helpdesk (for all inquiries except ALMA) ALMA Helpdesk (for all ALMA related inquiries) NRAO Science Forums Python Documentation Splatalogue - Astronomical Line Database   Index of All Articles List of All Articles Index by Category