BoA Feature Summary

General characteristics

• under GPL Licence
• modular structure (object-oriented)
• use of common programming languages: python, Fortran90
• easy to add tasks and modules
• interface with APECS
• provides on-line and offline data reduction
• development under CVS for open group of developers
• comprehensive documentation
• interactive and scriptable
• easy and/or direct access to the data

Data reduction tasks

Input/output

• read MBFits data
• co-addition of several scans
• write MBFits file (to be completed)
• convert between MAMBO fits and MBFits formats (to be updated)
• write image fits files
• dump/restore current processed data

Data visualisation

• plot signals (time series)
• plot/analyse telescope pattern
• plot correlation (signals vs. one ref. channel or correlation matrix)
• plot statistics (channels means, rms)
• plot FFT/Datagram of signals
• plot 2D images/contour
• easy selection/reordering of channel
• general data/curve/image plotting using pgplot

Data manipulation

• flagging in time and space domain
• Fourier filtering (blanking/tapering)
• despiking
• resampling (to be completed)
• polynomial baseline removal
• compute flat field
• skynoise filter
  • correlated noise
  • median average
  • PCA (to be completed)
• determination of array parameters from point source maps
• pointing reduction
  • on data
  • on maps
• focus reduction: parabola fit
• on-off analysis (not yet)
• gridding into equatorial/horizontal maps, smoothing, re-binning
• smoothing
• source extraction (Gauss fit)
• simulation of observations