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The BoA Mission
BoA is a newly designed software package for the reading, handling, and analysis of bolometer array data. Its design and implementation is a collaborative effort of scientist at the MPIfR, AIfA, AIRUB, and IAS that was started in 2002. The primary goal of BoA is to handle data from LABOCA at APEX, both for online visualization and offline processing. BoA can also be used to process data acquired with other instruments such as ASZCa at APEX or MAMBO at the IRAM 30-meter telescope. BoA includes most of the relevant functionalities of the current reduction packages (MOPSIC, NIC, SURF). The major difference to them is that BoA is written in a programming environment that is (hopefully) easier to modify, maintain, and re-use. Moreover, BoA naturally interface with APECS and the MBfits format.
Documentation
Current draft of the BoA manual: [attachment:Boa_boaman_v2.5.pdf pdf] or [http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~cvlahaki/boaman_v2.5/index.html html]
[:Boa/Features:Principal features] of BoA are summarized here.
- Last release version of the manual: [attachment:APEX-MPI-MAN-0018.pdf pdf] (old, do not use)
[:Documentation/Boa Quick User Guide:Quick User Guide]
[:Boa/Installation:Installation instruction], but see also in the manual.
[:Boa/Installation#FAQ:Installation FAQ].
[:Documentation/HowToSubversion:Development under SVN]
[:Documentation/Boa White Board:White Board] collecting further information on BoA
Links
[http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/bts Bug Tracking System] to report bug or request new features. (See [:BugTrackerHowTo:here] for a concise description)
[:BoaMinutes:Minutes] of meetings concerned with the development of BoA.
[:BoaGroup:Contact] the developers for further information and help
[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/mm/apex/ APEX Telescope]
[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/bertoldi/mambo/index.html MAMBO, the Max-Planck-Millimeter-Bolometer]
BoA is in part financed by a Verbundforschung grant by the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) to the MPIfR and AIRUB to build LABOCA, a large bolometer array facility camera for APEX.