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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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ALMA guides (click on this link) EVLA Guides Getting Started Tutorials Hints, Tips, & Tricks CASA User Scripts and Tasks VLA Guides Tutorials CARMA Guides Tutorials Hints, Tips, & Tricks SMA Guides Tutorials

20 October 2017: CASA Release 5.1.1 is now available 26 September 2017: CASA Newsletter #5 CASA Homepage What is CASA? Getting Started in CASA Installing CASA CASA Reference Manuals AIPS-to-CASA Cheat Sheet CASA Region Format (CASA 3.3. and higher) Hints, Tips, & Tricks CASA User Scripts and Tasks Python Overview NRAO Science Forum Using CASA

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CASA Homepage What is CASA? Getting Started in CASA Installing CASA CASA Reference Manuals	AIPS-to-CASA Cheat Sheet CASA Region Format (CASA 3.3. and higher) Hints, Tips, & Tricks CASA User Scripts and Tasks Python Overview NRAO Science Forum
Interactive Tools in CASA
CASA viewer demonstration video Data flagging with viewer Data flagging with plotms	Averaging data in plotms Axis definitions in plotms
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Extracting scripts from these tutorials
ALMA guides (click on this link) EVLA Guides Getting Started Tutorials Hints, Tips, & Tricks CASA User Scripts and Tasks VLA Guides Tutorials	CARMA Guides Tutorials Hints, Tips, & Tricks SMA Guides Tutorials
Simulating Observations Simulating Observations in CASA 3.4 (under development) Simulating Observations in CASA 3.3 Antenna Configuration Models in CASA 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) Index of All Articles List of All Articles Index by Category Information for Authors MediaWiki markup language CASAGuides Instructions for Authors

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

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