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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 below) as well as single dish telescopes. This wiki provides examples and hints for reducing data in CASA.

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

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List of All Tutorials Extracting Scripts from Tutorials Direct Links: ALMA guides EVLA and VLA Guides Getting Started with EVLA data Measurement Set Contents Loading Data Inspecting Data 3C391 Continuum Calibration and Imaging SN2010FZ Wide-band IRC+10216 Spectral Line G55.7+3.4 Wide-band Wide-field VLA 5 GHz Continuum Survey VLA NGC 5921 HI Emission VLA MRK 6 HI Absorption CARMA and SMA Tutorials M99 Spectral Line Mosaic Extracting data from MIRIAD SMA CO Line Data Simulating Observations Index of All Articles List of All Articles Index by Category

20 October 2017: CASA Release 5.1.1 is now available 26 September 2017: CASA Newsletter #5 Using CASA CASA Homepage Information on the latest releases, documentation, and support Installing CASA Where to obtain CASA, and how to install it in different operating systems What is CASA? Overview of CASA calibration, imaging, and a description of basic tasks Getting Started in CASA Guide to CASA syntax, task execution, and scripting CASA Reference Manuals The CASA COOKBOOK, and manuals for tasks and toolkits Hints, Tips, & Tricks Task-specific tutorials and essential information 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 Annotated Example Scripts Samples to help you script your data reduction CASA User Scripts and Tasks Aligning, mosaicking, stitching, plotting weather, and more AIPS-to-CASA Cheat Sheet Lectures from the most recent Synthesis Imaging Workshop (June 2012) Python Overview Includes basics of python, and guides to arrays and plotting NRAO Science Forum Ask the community questions about data processing

CASA Events 23-27 October 2017: 6th VLA Data Reduction Workshop (NRAO Socorro, NM)

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) Information for Authors MediaWiki markup language CASAGuides Instructions for Authors

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