CASA Tips

CASA Tips

• 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