M100 Band3 ACA 4.2.2

• This guide requires CASA 4.1.0 and assumes that you have downloaded M100_Band3_UnCalibratedMSAndTablesForReduction.tgz from M100Band3#Obtaining_the_Data

• Details of the ALMA observations are provided at M100Band3

• This portion of the guide covers calibration of the raw visibility data. To skip to the imaging portion of the guide, see: M100Band3 Imaging 4.1.

Overview

This part of the M100 Band 3 7m CASA guide will step you through the calibration of the visibility data. We will begin by flagging (marking as bad) data known to be useless before any inspection, for example data where one telescope blocks the line of sight of another. Then we will apply telescope-generated calibration tables to partially correct for atmospheric effects. After inspecting the data, we will flag some additional data that exhibit pathologies. Then we will use observations of the calibrators Titan and 3c279 to derive the phase and amplitude response of individual antennas as a function of time and frequency ("phase", "amplitude", and "bandpass" calibrations). We will apply these to the data and then extract the calibrated source data into a file appropriate for imaging.

The general procedure in this guide follows the other ALMA CASA guides: NGC3256Band3 and TWHydraBand7.