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ALMA Single Dish Tutorial Workshop

Dates: Dec 7-8, 2011
Location: Room 230, NRAO Headquarters

Final Schedule

7 Dec SINGLE DISH CASA

8:00 am coffee and light breakfast, and welcome
8:15 am SD tutorial session 1
- 0) Single Dish observation and analysis overview (~45min) : Erik Muller
  - observation and operation
  - calibrations (scan, otf, off position)
  - issues (standing waves, atmospheric absorption)
  - SD processing vs interferometer
- 1) CASA SD overview (45min) : Kanako Sugimoto
  - mission statements
  - task overview
  - data formats (data structure, how and where various parameters are stored: Tsys, etc.)
10:00 am coffee break
10:30 am SD tutorial session 2 (0.5h)
- 2) (ALMA example case 1) Single dish data reduction: Kanako Sugimoto
  - Antenna galaxy band 3
11:00 am break (1.0h)
12:00 pm lunch and discussions
1:00 pm SD tutorial session 2 continued (1.0h)
- 2) (ALMA example case 1) Single dish data reduction: Kanako Sugimoto
  - Antenna galaxy band 3
2:00 pm SD tutorial session 3
- 3) SD analysis & discussion(0.5h): Kanako Sugimoto
  - ASAP for other non-ALMA observatories
- 4) SD Questions and Answers I (0.5h): Kanako Sugimoto
  - Answer questions outstanding from homework
3:00 pm afternoon break

8 Dec

8:00 am coffee and light breakfast
8:00 am SD tutorial session 4
- 5) Using CASA-SD and ALMA and Combining: Erik Muller
  - single-dish data reduction based on tutorial script
  - combining SD+INT - some techniques and methods: pre/post decon. etc.
9:00 am SD tutorial session 5
- 6) (ALMA example case 2) Combining SD + INT data: Erik Muller
10:00 am coffee break
10:30 am SD tutorial session 6
- 7) Tutorial summary & action Items (1.0h)
  - Identify any action items (if any), & answer questions from previous day.
SD Questions and Answers
Minutes and Action Items
~11:45 am lunch

Homework bundle for the workshop can be downloaded from the following link:

NAASC compilation of suggestions for the SD package

sd_suggestions.txt

CASA JIRA tickets created for problems discovered at the workshop:

CAS-3647: when adding a modelimage to clean, interactive=T boxing goes 'crazy'

-- DongChanKim - 2011-11-29

Topic attachments
I	Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
pdf	garc_tute_v1.0.pdf	manage	8 MB	2011-12-06 - 11:42	DongChanKim	tutorial
tar	combine.tar	manage	3 MB	2011-12-02 - 12:49	DavidHalstead	tar
pdf	NRAOws2011SingledishReduction.pdf	manage	2 MB	2011-12-06 - 12:56	DongChanKim	NRAOws2011SingledishReduction.pdf
txt	sd_suggestions.txt	manage	4 K	2011-12-08 - 14:13	CrystalBrogan	compliation of NAASC SD suggestions
pdf	garc_tute_combining.pdf	manage	2 MB	2011-12-06 - 11:41	DongChanKim	combined tutorial
pdf	homework_nrao_ext.pdf	manage	41 K	2011-12-06 - 17:22	ToddHunter
pdf	homework_nrao_ext_ans.pdf	manage	565 K	2011-12-06 - 17:22	ToddHunter

Topic revision: r11 - 2011-12-08, ToddHunter

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