Simulation Recipes
From CASA Guides
Massively Under Construction
(i.e. don't believe what you see here yet, or ask me when it doesn't make sense :)
Nearby edge-on spiral
Roughly modeled after NGC891
- model data: Milky Way 13CO from the Galactic Ring Survey on the 14m FCRAO
- units: K - first convert to flux surface brightness
[math]\displaystyle{ \frac{Jy}{Sr} = \frac{4\times 10^{23} k T}{\pi D^2 4\pi\Omega} }[/math], where [math]\displaystyle{ \Omega }[/math] is the beam solid angle. At 110GHz the factor is [math]\displaystyle{ 2x10^8 }[/math]
now we need to decide if this model data will work at the desired pixel scale and noise level
- the GRS resolution of 40" at ~10kpc is 0.04" at 10Mpc, so we should be able to do a simulation of observing at ~0.1-0.2".
indicates that for ALMA at 100GHz, configuration 20 is appropriate. - if we intend to set cell=0.04arcsec in simdata, then the cube needs to be multiplied by
[math]\displaystyle{ 2x10^8 * (.04/206265)^2 = 7.9x10^{-6} }[/math] to obtain Jy/pixel. The cube peaks at ~3K, so we can perform the simulation with inbright=2.3e-5
