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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 EVLA, both shown at right) as well as single dish telescopes. This wiki provides examples and hints for reducing data in CASA.

CASA Events 23-27 October 2017: 6th VLA Data Reduction Workshop (NRAO Socorro, NM) CASA News 20 October 2017: CASA Release 5.1.1 is now available 26 September 2017: CASA Newsletter #5

Featured article CASA tutorial for ALMA Band 3 Science Verification data on the merging galaxy NGC 3256

Contents

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 3.1 [[Simulating Observations in CASA v3.0.1][Simulating Observations in CASA 3.0]]
Indices List of All Articles Index by Category Authors MediaWiki markup language CASAGuides Instructions for Authors

Useful Links

CASA homepage

my.nrao.edu - Your Portal to NRAO Services

Python Documentation

EVLA Guides

Splatalogue - Astronomical Line Database

CASA python script repository (temporary)

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684 articles since July 2009.

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