Karl G. Jansky VLA Tutorials

EVLA Tutorials

Carbon Star IRC+10216: high frequency (36GHz), spectral line data reduction

IRC+10216 Part 1: editing, calibration

IRC+10216 Part 2: continuum subtraction, imaging, selfcal

(Dataset size: 1.1GB)

Calibrate and make image cubes of the line emission from this asymptotic giant branch star. This is a high-frequency EVLA dataset. Includes:

Inspecting data; basic flagging & calibration

Subtracting continuum emission

Imaging the spectral lines

Imaging the continuum

Image analysis

Self-calibration

Supernova Remnant 3C391: 6cm Polarimetry and Continuum Imaging, Mosaicking

3C391 Tutorial Part 1: calibration, imaging

3C391 Tutorial Part 2: Image Analysis, Polarization, Self-calibration

(Dataset size: 3.1GB)

Calibrate EVLA full polarization data, image a mosaic of the region in full Stokes and create a spectral index map. Includes:

Inspecting data; basic flagging

Calibration

Image Analysis and Manipulation

Polarization Imaging

Spectral Index imaging

Self-calibration

EVLA Tutorials for more Advanced Users

Supernova SN2010FZ: Wide-band, narrow-field imaging; C-band (5-7 GHz) \

SN2010FZ Tutorial

(Dataset size: 2.9GB)

Calibrate and image a galaxy field for this mid-frequency EVLA observation. This includes:

Excising RFI from the data

Basic flagging and calibration steps

Imaging from one spectral window to full dataset

Using multi-scale, multi-frequency synthesis

Image analysis

Supernova G55.7_3.4: Wide-band, wide-field imaging; L-band (1-2 GHz)

G55.7+3.4 Tutorial

(Dataset size: 14GB)

This low-frequency EVLA tutorial for the observation of a supernova remnant focuses on RFI excision as well as imaging wide-field and wide-fractional-bandwidth data. This includes:

Basic flagging and evaluation

Different methods for automatic RFI excision

Calibrating the data

Exploring different imaging options: widefield, multi-scale, and multi-frequency synthesis