Course Material

 

Lecture's PDF presentations and data files

Basics 1

Installing AIPS

VLA 320 MHz map of COSMOS field

Basics 2

AIPS Tutorial

Basics 3

Basics 4

VLBI and LOFAR

Introduction to CASA

Polarization

Spectral line interferometry



Complementary material

AIPS-to-CASA Cheat Sheet

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.

-) Introduction to AIPS

AIPS table description

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

ATCA sensitivity calculator

Other links

24h eVLBI during IYA2009 opening