Course Material
- Course Links:
- PRI 2011 main page
- Course material
- Previous lectures (passwd)
- The Virtual Radio Interferometer
- ERIS School 2007
- IRAM Summer School 2006
Last Modified: Wednesday, 25-Jan-2012 18:44:44 CET
Lecture's PDF presentations and data files
VLA 320 MHz map of COSMOS field
Complementary material
Old material from previous courses
Installing Virtual Machines and starting AIPS
Instructions how to install and start the Virtual machine can be found here
AIPS
You can find all about AIPS at the AIPS homepage.
Instructions to install the latest AIPS (31DEC10) can be found here. You probably want to do a binary installation.
A full AIPS VLA data reduction session
In these sessions we will go through a full VLA continuum data reduction procedure.
-) AIPS VLA data reduction (more advanced user)
-) AIPS VLA data reduction with full documentation
AIPS VLBI
-) AIPS VLBI/Spectral line data reduction
CASA:
The main source of material related to CASA is the CASA homepage.
To download and install CASA you should visit this page.
A pdf version of the CASA cookbook can be found here.
More information on the CASA sessions (incl. lectures) can be found on the website of the Bonn CASA tutorial. Follow the links at under the 'format' header to the lectures and the scripts and datasets.
Other
-) Modeling interferometry data
Material
Here are idl scripts for 2-D FFTs: fft.tgz
Links for sensitivity calculations
The EVN sensitivity calculator (includes MERLIN and VLBA)
VLA observational status guide
VLBA observational status guide
SMA/eSMA Beam and Sensitivity estimator