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.
Progress, Bugs & People
[http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~abeelen/boa.html Gantt Chart] describing the progress made on the developement of BoA.
[http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/bts Bug Tracking System] to report bug or request new features. (See [:BugTrackerHowTo:here] for a concise description)
- ["Minutes"] of meetings concerned with the development of Boa .
[:BoaGroup:Contact] one of us for further information and help
Documentation
[attachment:APEX-MPI-MAN-0018.pdf pdf] containing the current approved documentation,
or the [attachment:Boa_boaman_v2.5.pdf current] draft version of the documentation ([http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~cvlahaki/boaman_v2.5/index.html on-line]).
The [:Boa/Features:principal features] of Boa are also summarized here.
Installation & FAQ
You can find detailled [:Boa/Installation:installation instruction], also look in the documentation. If you have problems with the installation, you should first have a look to the [:Boa/Installation#FAQ:Installation FAQ].
Quick User Guide
You can find a [:Documentation/Boa Quick User Guide:Quick User Guide] to help user to reduce their data
White Board
There is also a [:Documentation/Boa White Board:White Board] where you can simply collect information about BoA.
Links
[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/mm/apex/ APEX Telescope]
[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/bertoldi/mambo/index.html 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.