Steps for complete for new cycle on ALMA hd (admin) 1 create new observing departments 1 update prefix and suffix for auto ticket generation (https://help.a...
FrontEndSoftwareDocuments Software Bugs: on NRAO JIRA on ALMA JIRA Measurement Procedures NAME PROCEDURE/MANUAL NOTES FRONT END CONTROL, SIGNAL SOURCE...
default parameter values and inline help for findContinuumCycle8.findContinuum: img='', pbcube=None, psfcube=None, minbeamfrac=0.3, spw='', transition='', ...
Usage of plotAtmosphere Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This is a simple plotter for atmospheric transmission, opacity, sky temperature, or system t...
qa0flags Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Summarizes the QA0 flags in a measurement set. The list of flagging conditions is tabulated by Rachel (ne...
ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Please refer to the Nov 2013 ANASAC Terms of Reference for the rules of ANASAC procedure. Contents: ANASAC Member...
ANASAC meeting on March 5, 9 11am ET. The primary goal is to provide NA perspectives for the NA ASAC members ahead of the ASAC meeting (occurring virtually 10 12 ...
Cycle 8 ALMA Development Studies are reviewed, nominated, and submitted for approval by NRAO and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Four proposals were receive...
* Cycle 8 NRAO ALMA Development Study Proposal – Regularized Maximum Likelihood Techniques for ALMA Spectral Line Imaging * Ian Czekala, PSU * ABSTRAC...
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The NAASC Cluster and Lustre filesystems etiquette and helpful hints Lustre Access For access to the Lustre filesystem, please submit a helpdesk ticket to hel...
Table of Contents This is a space for collaborative ASAC discussion. Membership * List of Members * Terms of Reference ALMA Science Advisory Committee ...
Minutes of ANASAC Telecon Feb 24, 2020 Attendees: Giles, Kate, Dan, Jin, Chris, Shih Ping, Stephen, Crystal, Al, Phil zoom connection problem, delayed the meeting...
ALMA Science IPT ALMA Science Papers Page Main ALMA Science IPT Page ALMA Calibration Group LAMA Memo Series ALMA Commissioning and Science Verification AL...
ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Contact Information for those calling in. * Call date: 2019 10 9 10:00 am EDT or 14:00 UT (Wednesday (Thursday i...
ANASAC telecon tomorrow (Thursday 27 June) at 11 AM Central Daylight Time. The call in info is USA Number: 866 692 3582 Passcode: 5862937 # Main.AlWootten ...
notes from telecon June 27 to discuss preparation of IVC report present: Giles, Jin, Dan, Shih Ping, Kate, Chris, Rachel, Tony R., Al, Phil Jin Koda will be there...
North American ALMA Science Center Wiki This externally viewable NAASC wiki has been deprecated. CURRENT NAASC Administrative and Management Content is now locat...
How to run the ALMA pipeline in Charlottesville Documentation * See Pipeline Staff Guide (Item 4.4 of the ALMA Staff Manual). * Old instructions (may still...
*2019 ANASAC Face to Face Meeting * Goals The goals and initiative of this meeting will be: * To offer better preparation to the ANASAC for the ASAC * Give...
ANASAC telecon: 2019 Feb 20 Present: Jin Koda, Shih Ping Lai, Giles Novak, Rachel Osten, Kate Su, Stephen White, Chris Wilson; Phil Jewell, Crystal Brogan, Al Woo...
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Manual Calibration This wiki will help you with a manual calibration assignment. Please let the DRM know if you foresee difficulties in completing your assignment...
flattenMask Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Takes a multi channel CASA image mask and propagates all pixels to a new single plane image mask...
AAS Special ALMA Session Abstract Deadline 10 October Cycle 6 began without a hitch, and with all 66 antennas (briefly)! For 4 October telecon ONLY please use: di...
Suggested regression tests for ALMA archive Download tests 1) Cycle 0 (multiple tar files, including calibrated ms) 2) Cycle 2 (product tar file, plus ASDMs) 3) ...
ALMA Polarization data Resources CASAGuide: https://casaguides.nrao.edu/index.php/3C286_Band6Pol_Calibration_for_CASA_4.3 Hiroshi's polarization calibration guid...
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ANASAC minutes: 2018 Feb 13 telecon Present: Jin Koda, Kate Su, Chris DePree, Rachel Osten, Chris Wilson, Giles Novak, Dan Marrone, Stephen White, Al Wootten, Ph...
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getMeanPosition Computes the mean RA and mean Dec of a list of RA/Dec coordinates Usage: au. getMeanPosition(radecs): Inputs: * radecs: a list or comma d...
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ANASAC minutes from Sep 12 telecon ALMA STATUS Al reported on the current status of the array. It is currently in a C43 8ish configuration with baselines up to 8....
Imaging Cycle 1 4 data using pipeline products NOTIFICATIONS: READ THIS FIRST * If you are familiar with the process, you could use this condensed 'checklis...
Dear All, Please find attached notes from this weeks meeting courtesy of James (with some light editing from me). Notice in particular the action items at the to...
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The Calibration/Imaging Packaging of Solar Total Power Array (Single Dish) data (Cycle4) Tentative Cautions 1 We do not use scriptForPI.py for Total Pow...
modifyIntents Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function replaces all appearances of a string in the OBS_MODE column of the STATE table with a di...
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Minutes from 1 March telecon Present: Karin Öberg, Chris Wilson, Stephen White, Al Wootten, Phil Jewell 1. The prioritization of alma receiver upgrades was briefl...
Usage for searchFlux Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Searches the ALMA online calibrator catalog at JAO for a specific source name. It returns the r...
ANASAC Jan 11, 2017 telecon minutes Present: Al Wootten, Phil Jewel, Karin Öberg, Christina Wilson, Stephen White, Rachel Friesen 1. Al reported on work on ALMA r...
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getChanWidths Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns an array of channel widths (in Hz) for the specified msmd instance (or measurement set) an...
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convolveTwoEllipses Return to directory of Todd's tools Reads the beamsize from an image, convolves it with an auto generated image of a 2D Gaussian of the sp...
Usage for modifyPPR Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Return to pipeline instructions This function reads an existing pipeline processing request xml ...
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sensitivityAdjustment Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Implements the equation in the 13/Jul/2016 comment in CAS 8534, which determines how much ...
estimateSynthesizedBeamForConfig Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads an antenna configuration file (by default from the directory: os...
estimateSynthesizedBeamFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Estimates the synthesized beam FWHM from the max baseline length and representat...
estimateSynthesizedBeam Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Estimates the synthesized beam from the max baseline length and representative frequen...
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Aug 9, 2016 Minutes Present: Karin Oberg, Alberto Bolatto, Al Wootten, Phil Jewell, Loren Anderson, Douglas Scott, Apologies: Dan Marrone, Rachel Osten,...
restFrequenciesASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the rest frequencies for the science target spws in an ASDM and returns a dictionary, ...
transitions Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a dictionary of the line transition names for each science spw of the specified measurem...
restFrequencies Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a dictionary of rest frequencies (in Hz) for specified spw(s) (and source). See also r...
transition Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the list of spectral line transitions for the specified spw and source from a measurement set...
restFrequency Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the list of rest frequencies for specified spw and source. It also prints the correspondi...
antennaEfficiency Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes antenna aperture efficiency equation from the ALMA technical handbook (Cycle 2 page 114, ...
surmiseEffectiveResolution Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Determines the effective resolution of a channel in an ALMA spw. This function was d...
fixBandwidthsInMOUS Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Corrects the effective bandwidth and resolution of the science spws in an ASDM, by using...
getScienceSpws Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Return a list of spws with the specified intent. For ALMA data, it ignores channel averaged ...
getScienceSpwsInSameBaseband Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets a list of science spws that have the same baseband as the one specified. ...
imageStdPerChannel Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the axes parameter of imstat to compute the statistics of each plane of a CASA cube over a s...
stefanBoltzmannLuminosity Return to directory of Todd's tools Computes the Stefan Boltzmann formula for luminosity. Usage: au.stefanBoltzmannLuminosity(radius, d...
Main.LyndeleVonSchill 2011 01 10 NAASC Orientation Welcome to the NAASC. This page is intended to help you find the resources that you need in order to get settl...
estimateMRSForConfig Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads an antenna configuration file (by default from the directory: os.getenv('CAS...
Tuesday May 17 Agenda: * 09.00 09.15 Welcome charges Phil Jewell ANASAC_f2f_17May2016_charges.pdf * 09.15 09.45 NAASC Status Phil Jewell, Tony ...
1 The DA will tell you when your data is ready through a comment on the SCOPS data reduction ticket of the project 1 Have look at the project in the OT (from t...
Usage of imfitparse Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function accepts a dictionary result from imfit is passed in via the 'imfitdict' argument, ...
shiftChannelSelection Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Takes a channel selection string and shifts it by the number of specified channels. S...
invertChannelRanges Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Return to directory of Todd's tools Inverts a CASA channel selection string, for example, turnin...
countChannels Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Counts the number of channels in a CASA channel selection string. If multiple spws, then retur...
nonzeroPixels Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Counts the number of pixels with non zero values. Should not be run on a large cube! Will run...
configs Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions List the configurations in the data/alma/simmos directory. On a Mac, this is typically /Applications/CA...
fitLapseRateAndScaleHeightASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads an ALMA O2 sounder dataset (text file) and fits for temperature lapse rate ...
listobsasdm Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Prints a summary of the scans, fields and spws, similar to listobs for a measurement set. Calls...
Usage for listscans Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function reads an ASDM and prints the summary of each scan (time range, source, and intents...
getALMAFluxcsv Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads a flux.csv file generated by the pipeline's hifa_import task. runs getALMAFlux for each field...
combineUncertainties Return to directory of Todd's tools Computes the expected new uncertainty after combining datasets with specified uncertainties. Usage: tt.c...
propagateMaskToAllChannels Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Takes a spectral mask array, and propagates every masked spatial pixel to all spe...
maskChannel Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Mask a channel or range of channels in a CASA image cube. If it is a mask created by tclean, the ef...
Usage for getOUS Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function will find the OUS that an ASDM is associated with by reading the ExecBlock.xml table....
topoToLSRK Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the CASA measures tool to convert a topocentric frequency and observing date/direction to th...
restToLSRK Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the CASA measures tool to convert a rest frequency, LSRK velocity, and observing date/direction ...
topoToRest Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the CASA measures tool to convert a topocentric frequency, LSRK velocity, and observing date/dir...
restToTopo Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the CASA measures tool to convert a rest frequency, LSRK velocity, and observing date/direction ...
dateFromDoy Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Build a date string from the year and day of year. See also doyFromDate and yearFraction. Usage: a...
doyFromDate Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the day number for a specified date time string. See also yearFraction and dateFromDoy. Usage...
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outermosaic Return to directory of Todd's tools Computes the edge of a mosaic pointing pattern. It supports both the old style (Cycle 0 3) and new style (Cycle...
getFrequenciesFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets a list of the frequencies of each spw in the ASDM. Extraneous WVR spws are skip...
pickCellSize Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the image cell size (in arcsec), and optionally the imsize (rounding up using cleanhelper.cl...
scaleWeightSpectrum Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Scale the data weight spectrum column by a user supplied factor (or square or square r...
Usage for scaleweights Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function will scale all of the data weights in a specified ms. See also resetweights, c...
mosaicOverlapFactor Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the maximum sensitivity increase factor for an ALMA mosaic. It is similar to mo...
mosaicSensitivity Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the sensitivity at the center of a hexagonal mosaic relative to a single pointing...
angularSeparationOfTwoFields Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the angular separation (in degrees) between 2 specified fields in a me...
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makemaskForNewLine Opens a dirty .residual image, reads its frequency info and writes it to a template .mask image for eventual use as a tclean mask. N...
channelSelectionRangesToIndexArray Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Convert a channel selection range string to integer array of channels. See a...
imageAreaAbovePB Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Takes an image and computes the area (in sq. arcsec) above the specified level. Usage: au.ima...
meanObliquity Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the mean obliquity in radians for the specified date/time. Explanatory supplement to a...
analyzemscal Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function generates the Cycle 0 QA2 plots for a pipeline reduction (along with other useful plots a...
analyzemsimage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Accepts a list of pipeline produced images and a list of corresponding manually produced ...
getTelescopeNameFromCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions See also getAntennaStationsFromCaltable, getAntennaNamesFromCaltable, getMeasurementSet...
getAntennaStationsFromCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the list of antenna stations from a caltable. See also getAntennaNamesFromCalt...
getAntennaNamesFromCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the antenna names from the specified caltable. See also getAntennaStationsF...
ICRSToJ2000 Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a direction from ICRS to J2000 using the CASA measures tool and computes the angular separation...
getSpwsFromCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the unique list of spw IDs for which solutions exist in the specified caltable. ...
imageHistogram Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Plot a histogram of pixels of a CASA 2D image. Usage: au.imageHistogram(img, region='', applymask=F...
J2000ToICRS Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a direction from J2000 to ICRS using the CASA measures tool and computes the angular separation...
getFitsBeam Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Extract the beam and pixel scale information from a FITS image (or CASA image) from the BMAJ, BMIN, BPA ...
getObservationMJDSecRangeFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns 2 floating point values in MJD seconds. See also getObservationMJDSec...
getObservationMJDSecRange Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns 2 floating point values in MJD seconds. See also getObservationMJDSecRangeFro...
getSourceNameFromPipelineImageName Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Parses the source name from a pipeline image name. Usage: import analyzemsimage ...
windowFunction Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Print the FWHM and Effective sensitivity bandwidth of each of the ALMA correlator window functi...
onlineChannelAveraging Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions For ALMA Cycle 3 (and onward) data, determines the channel averaging factor from the ...
getMemorySize Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the total memory on the current machine. Example: CASA : au.getMemorySize() Out 11 : 676423843...
radecToEcliptic Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the CASA measures tool to convert from equatorial to ecliptic coords. Usage: au.radecToEclipti...
receiverTrxSpec Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the specification for receiver temperature for the specified ALMA band. Usage: au.receiverT...
yearFraction Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the fractional year for a specified date string. See also doyFromDate. Usage: au.yearFraction(da...
applyProperMotion Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the proper motion for a source (using properMotion), then subtracts it from the phase ce...
removeScanFromCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Removes a specified scan number from a caltable, e.g. a Tsys table, which was necessary for P...
removeAntennaFromCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Removes all rows in a caltable that correspond to a specific antenna. Does not to...
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snrToPhaseRmsDegrees Implements the formulas in the Synthesis Imaging textbook (Volume 1) that convert from S/N to rms phase: 7 51 (for snr 1.837). Usage: au.sn...
getMJDSecFromCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the mean time of the solutions in a caltable. Usage: au.getMJDSecFromCaltable(caltable)...
tsysAverage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This program plots the average Tsys per spw in a caltable Usage: es.tsysAverage(self, caltable, qa2_out...
getSpwMeanFreqFromCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the mean frequency (in GHz) of the specified spw in a caltable. See also getSp...
representativeSpw Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the science spw that contains the representative frequency of the measurement set. If mul...
findNearestField Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Finds the field in a list that is nearest to the specified average position. See also findNearestFi...
imageImstat Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs imstat on an image and reports back the value of a keyword. See also imageImstats to operate on a l...
imagePeaks Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs imagePeak on a list of images. Usage: au.imagePeaks(images, pixelRadius=None, returnPosition=None, ...
getPadHeight Reads the XYZ geocentric coordinates for the specified pad and computes the Pythagorean distance from the center of the Earth. Usage: au.getPad...
imheadlist Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Emulates CASA's imhead(mode='list'), but runs faster for large cubes because it does not read the binary ...
angularSeparationOfFieldsFromSource Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the angular separation of all fields associated with a source ID, ...
analyzecontsub Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Examples: https://safe.nrao.edu/alma/PipelineTestResults/analyzecontsub Main.ToddHunter 2016...
getBaselineLengthForStations Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the baseline length between two antenna stations. Usage: au.getBaselineLength...
getPadPositions Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the pad positions in geocentric XYZ coordinates from an ms, (excluding the weather sta...
findNearestFieldInVis Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns nearest field in a measurement set to a specified absolute position Usage: au.fin...
taskExecutionTimes Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the time taken to execute a task (all appearances) in a casa log file. Usage: au.ta...
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uidToUnderscores Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts uids from native name to underscore delimited name (if necessary), preserving any init...
nameforspw Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the spw name in the NAME column of the SPECTRAL_WINDOW table of a measurement set. Obsoleted by ms...
getBand Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a frequency to the ALMA band number. Calls parseFrequencyArgument if necessary. There is ambiguity...
bandforspw Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses msmd.namesforspw and parses out the ALMA band name. Accepts either a measurement set name or...
imviewFields Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Calls imviewField on a list of images (or wildcard name) and puts the resulting pngs into a PDF...
imviewField Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Plots a square portion of a CASA image using imview (so you don't have to figure out the blc and trc par...
projectCodeFromDataset Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Consults an online table on F. Stoehr's machine in order to locate the project code, SB n...
projectCodeFromSB Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Consults an online table on F. Stoehr's machine in order to locate the project code, MOUS...
getRADecForField Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the RA , Dec in radians for the specified field in the specified ms. If run in casa = ...
properMotion Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the proper motion for specified source. See also radialVelocity, restFrequency, and transition....
getWeatherFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the weather table in the ASDM and returns values. See also getWeather and getWeatherFr...
getWeather Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Queries the WEATHER and ANTENNA tables of an .ms by scan number or list of scan numbers and retur...
Usage of FixPosition class Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions FixPosition is a class with various methods to fix problems with the direction of sources...
radialVelocity Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the systemic velocity for specified source ID. See also restFrequency and properMotion. ...
getRADecForSource Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Calls msmd.sourcedirs and extracts the RA/Dec for the specified source ID, in sexagesimal form...
parseGencalAntpos Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Given a text file (such as a manual ALMA calibration script), find the gencal command of a...
getSB Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the UID of the schedule block for a measurement set from its observatory table. Usage: au.getSB(vis) Ex...
imageObservatory Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Attempt to infer the observatory name for an image, based on the header. See also imageAntennaDiam...
imageAntennaDiameter Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Attempt to infer the antenna diameter from an image, based on the observatory name in t...
imagePrimaryBeam Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the frequency from an image (CASA or FITS) and returns the primary beam FWHM in arcse...
findSpectralAxis Return to directory of Todd's tools Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Finds the spectral axis number of a CASA cube (0 based). Retur...
blcTrcToLineSegments Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Convert a BLC and TRC points to 4 line segments (i.e. 5 pairs of x,y points). Usage: au.b...
Helpdesk Failover / Failback Testing Procedure This procedure has been used by NA staff to failover testing. Updated and generalized for use by all ARCs. Please...
Things to set so CASA runs smoothly for Data Reduction * In your ~/.casa/init.py sys.path.append("/home/casa/contrib/AIV/science/analysis_scripts") import pyla...
Usage of angularSeparationOfFields Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads an ms and computes the angular separation of all fields, or only between th...
countChannelsInRanges Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Counts the number of channels in one spw of a CASA channel selection string and return a l...
sunrise Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes sunrise and sunset on specified date at specified observatory. Usage: au.sunrise(date=None, observ...
getDiameterForObservatory Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Convert an observatory name to an antenna diameter. This function is used to determine p...
fixASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions In August 2015, the NA ARC experienced a problem where every .xml file exported from the archive was missing...
Usage of angularScaleBaseline Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Return the baseline length (in meters) corresponding to the specified angular scale at...
Usage for printBaselineAngularScale Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a baseline length into angular scale on the sky either at the specified...
printBaselineUVDistance Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a baseline length into UV Distance either at the specified frequency(s), or...
surmiseConfiguration Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Compares the baseline statistics of an ALMA measurement set to the official configurati...
surmiseCycleFromImage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Attempts to surmise the Cycle number for an ALMA image. See also surmiseCycleFromASDM, s...
surmiseCycle Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Finds the date of an observation from its measuremen set and determines which ALMA Cycle it is, usi...
almaCycles Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts date string to ALMA cycle. See also surmiseCycle and surmiseConfiguration. Usage: au.almaCycle...
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Manual Data Reduction Checklist 1 Read the SB name from the SCOPS DR ticket where you have been notified of your assignment 1 In the OT, pull out the projec...
fieldsfornames Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a list of fields IDs that encompass a list of field names. Uses msmd.fieldsforname in a 'for'...
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gaussianBeamResponse Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the gain at the specified radial offset from the center of a Gaussian beam. Fo...
gaussianBeamOffset Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the radius at which the response of a Gaussian beam drops to the specified level....
almaPrimaryBeamCorrection Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function computes the ratio of the current CASA primary beam correction scheme ...
montageTwoPdfs Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Takes two PDFs of equal page length, converts each page to pngs, and places them side by side...
montageTwoPngLists Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Takes two (or three or four) lists of N pngs (or other single page image types), and puts the...
Usage of buildPdfFromPngs Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Task to convert a list (or directory) of PNGs (or other single page image types) into PDFs...
numberOfChannelsInCube Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the number of channels in a CASA or FITS image cube. The frequency axis must be the ...
Return to top Contact Scientist Duties page here Notes and Tips for Contact Scientists and P2G from email of 1/4/2016. 1. Macro use 2. Forwarding P2G comm...
getScienceSpwsForFrequency Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets a list of spws with OBSERVE_TARGET intent whose channels contain a specified frequen...
getScienceFrequencies Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Return a list of the mean frequencies of each spw with OBSERVE_TARGET intent. If none ...
findDaytime Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Finds the range of date values (suitable for pylab.plot_date) that correspond to daylight hours ...
pixelsPerBeam Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Determines the number of pixel areas per beam area of an image. Usage: au.pixelsPerBeam(img) Exa...
plotBaselinesSorted Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs plotms for every baseline, sorts by baseline and compiles into a PDF with shortest...
copyTsys Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This is a utility to copy a scaled version of the Tsys values from one antenna to another antenna. ...
getUnflaggedScans Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the af tool to find a list of scans for a specific spw and field that are not (mostly) flagg...
getUnflaggedAntennas Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the af tool to determine the list of antenna names in a measurement set whose da...
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setBeam Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Sets the restoring beam in a CASA image header using the ia tool. See also setImageUnits. Usage: au. s...
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ANASAC telecon Dec 10, 2015 (Note takers: Douglas, Alberto, Dan and Karin) In attendance: Al, Alberto, Dan, Douglas, Karin, Rachel, Shep, Tony R., Laura Resul...
ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee Contact Information for those calling in. * Call date: 2015 12 10 3:00 pm EST or 20:00 UT (Thursday (Friday in T...
Usage for getPadLOC Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the local tangent plane coordinates of the specified ALMA pad from the file AOS_Pads...
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olnon Return to directory of Todd's tools Computes a free free spectrum based on Olnon (1975) models. Usage: import olnon olnon.olnon(Te, diameter, ne, Dkpc,...
Usage for computeAzElFromRADecMJD Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the az/el for a specified J2000 RA/Dec, MJD (or date/time string) and obs...
computeAzElForMS Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the min/max/mean or median azim and elev for a measurement set. Used by the pipeline webl...
compareAntennaPositionCorrections Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This command computes the difference (in mm) between two antenna baseline solution...
fitLapseRate Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Fits a line to the temperature vs. height curve from the O2 sounder. See also fitScaleHeight and f...
fitScaleHeight Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the scale height of a quantity measured by the O2 sounder. See also fitLapseRate and fi...
fillAsdmList Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Takes a list of ASDMs observed on the same night (same array) and populates a list of their full names,...
everOccupied Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns True if the pad name appears anywhere in antennaMoves.txt Usage: au.everOccupied(pad) Exa...
plotOxygenSounder Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Plots the Tamb, RelHum, Tir (cloud sensor), and rain detector data from the ALMA oxygen so...
plotApexPWV Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Retrieves and plots the PWV measured at APEX telescope, near ALMA. If asdm is specified, then it...
numberOfPolarizationsInSyscalTable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reports the number of polarizations in the SYSCAL table of the specified ...
numberOfPolarizationsInSyscalXML Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reports the number of polarizations in the SysCal.xml file of the specified...
getApexWeather Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Retrieves weather for a whole day(s) from APEX archive. Units match the ALMA weather stations...
getPadHeightFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the XYZ geocentric coordinates for the specified pad and computes the Pythagorean di...
readAntennasFromCalPosition Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the antenna names in a CalPosition.xml file, as written by tc_antpos, and returns ...
mjdsecToDate Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts an MJD seconds value to the date string YYYY MM DD that contains it. Usage: au.mjdsecToDate(m...
dminfo Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Prints the result of tb.getdminfo into a text file. Usage: au.dminfo(vis, outfile='') Example: CASA : au.dm...
averageAntPosResults Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function runs Robert's CompareAntPosResults.py for a list of tc_antpos results fil...
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Low SNR, Narrow bandwidth Data Reduction Some data have been collected with narrow/low bandwidth (FDM) spectral windows for all of the scans (science source, phas...
Usage of xyz2long Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions A convenient wrapper function to call simutil.xyz2long to convert an ITRF location to degrees ...
Band Width Switching Reduction Science observations that use very narrow band ("FDM") observations may be collected in an observing mode where some of the calibra...
generateReducScript Return to directory of CASA extensions This function generates a CASA reduction script for an ALMA dataset. It is maintained by E. Villard. ...
checkLogsForSubarrays Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Calls checkALMALogs with a string that indicates an array creation event: ' has been created ...
Agenda and Minutes October 5, 2015, 1200 UT Attendance: Rein, Evanthia, Maria, Misato, Alison, Anand, Chris, Kelly, Sarah Agenda / Minutes Work done since la...
plotantsFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the antenna positions from the ASDM and makes a plot, similar to the plotants function in...
Usage for plotPWVFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Read and plot the PWV values from the ASDM via the CalWVR.xml table. With this function, ...
getWeatherStationPositionsFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the positions of the weather stations in an ASDM. See also getWeatherSt...
getTsysScans Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets a list of unique scans contained in a caltable. See also removeScanFromCaltable. Usage: au.getTsy...
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importandlist Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Run importasdm (if necessary) followed by listobs on an ASDM, or a list of ASDMs. Usage: au.importa...
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zeeman Return to directory of Todd's tools Fits a single pixel of Stokes I and Stokes V cubes for the B field and draws a summary plot. Usage: tt.zeeman(filename...
flagReasonStats Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Because measurement sets do not contain a column for the reason code for each flag, it is impossible...
J2000ToICRSgrid Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs J2000ToICRS on a grid of directions in the celestial sphere and provides statistics. Usa...
ANASAC telecon Sept. 3 notes by Laura Chomiuk, supplemented by Rachel Ostenattending: Phil Jewell, Al Wootten, Karin Oberg, John Carpenter, Laura Chomiuk, Carol L...
fixReceptorAngles Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions In the FEED table of the specified measurement set, replace RECEPTOR_ANGLEs of 0,90 with...
receptorAngles Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads and summarizes the RECEPTOR_ANGLE column of the FEED table of a measurement set, as a list ...
removeLines Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Remove all lines of an ASCII file that contain a specified keystring, or any one of a list of such strin...
channelAverageChannels Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the list of channels used by ALMA for the channel averaged spw, whose bandwidth is 8...
Usage for plotTcal Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Plot either the Tsys, Trx or Tsky from the SYSCAL table of the specified ALMA ms, and save as png...
Usage for plotTsky Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Plot the Tsky from the SYSCAL table of the specified ALMA ms, and save as png files. Can produc...
Usage for plotTrx Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Plot the Trx from the SYSCAL table of the specified ALMA ms, and save as png files. Can produce ...
Usage for plotTsys Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Plot the Tsys from the SYSCAL table of the specified ALMA ms, and save as png files. Can produc...
Usage for mjdSecondsToMJDandUT Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a value of MJD seconds into MJD, and into a UT date/time string. See also m...
Usage for mjdNanosecondsToMJDandUT Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a value of MJD in nanoseconds into MJD in days, and into a UT date/time ...
getMeasurementSetFromCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the name of the parent measurement set from a caltable. Usage: au.getMeas...
parseAntennaASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Parse an antenna argument (integer or string or list) to emulate plotms selection, given a ...
Usage of frames Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Convert an optical velocity into different optical and radio frames (LSRK, TOPO). Written by Remy In...
parseAntenna Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Parse an antenna argument (integer or string or list) to emulate CASA task selections, given a meas...
getPadPositionsFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the pad positions in geocentric XYZ coordinates from an ASDM. Usage: au.getPadPos...
getWeatherStationNamesFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the names of the weather stations in an ASDM. See also getWeatherStationNam...
getAntennaPadsFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a dictionary of antennas pads association: e.g. {'DA41': 'S301'}. To perform this...
getWeatherStationPositions Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a dictionary keyed by ALMA weather station ID, with the value equal to th...
getWeatherStationNames Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a dictionary keyed by ALMA weather station ID, with the value equal to the st...
getAntennaPads Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets a list of antenna pads from a measurement set using msmd.antennastations(). See also getAntenn...
Usage for plotWeatherFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Help on function plotWeatherFromASDM in module analysisUtils. Calls getWeatherFromASDM...
es.generateQA2Report Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions The script was used during ALMA Cycle 0 (and at least part of Cycle 1) to create a QA2 report t...
imfitplot Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Calls the casa task imfit, then uses imview to plot the data, the model, and the residual images on the s...
Usage of deg2radec Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Convert a position (or list of positions) in RA/Dec from degrees to a sexagesimal string. Note t...
Usage of ComputeLST Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the LST (in hours) for a specified time (in MJD seconds or UT on the current date) ...
hoursToHMS Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts decimal hours (or a list of hours) into strings of format HH:MM:SS (or a list of strings). S...
effectiveResolution Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the effective resolution of a channel (in Hz or km/s) of the specified measureme...
effectiveBandwidth Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the effective bandwidth of a channel (in Hz or km/s) of the specified measurement...
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deflectionPlot Return to directory of Todd's tools Uses deflection to compute and plot the gravitational bending of light by the Sun at the Earth as a functio...
roundFiguresToString Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function rounds a floating point or integer value to a number of significant figures a...
roundFigures Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function rounds a floating point or integer value to a number of significant figures. See als...
gaussianPercentilePlot Return to directory of Todd's tools Calls gaussianPercentile repeatedly and builds a plot of the results. Usage: tt.gaussianPercentile...
Usage of timeDifference Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Find the difference in observation start time between two ms. using the OBSERVATION ...
Usage of timeDifferenceASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Find the difference in observation start time between two ms. using the OBSERVAT...
deflectionDifferential Return to directory of Todd's tools Computes the differential deflection due to solar gravity for two fields in a measurement set. Usage...
deflection Return to directory of Todd's tools Returns a value in arcsec for gravitational light bending using equation 25 of Cowling 1984, MNRAS 209, 415; or e...
Usage of angleToSun Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Compute the angular separation (in degrees) between the Sun and another object. See also sun, p...
gaussianPercentile Return to directory of Todd's tools Builds a Gaussian distribution, then computes the standard deviation and MAD of the values below th...
velocityResolution Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the value (or array) of velocity resolutions (in km/s) for the specified measure...
Usage for printLOs Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions It's often useful to look up the LO settings or YIG frequency for an ms. This function works as ...
Usage for printLOsFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions It's sometimes useful to know the LO settings or YIG frequencies in a dataset. Unfortuna...
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Usage for plotPointingResults Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions If you are curious about the pointing results in your data, this function will plot th...
Usage for plotPointingResultsFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function will plot the TelCal pointing solutions that were presumably app...
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hourAngleForField Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the range of hour angles for a specified field in a measurement set. See also p...
parallacticAngleForField Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the range of parallactic angles for a specified field in a measurement set...
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spwType Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Implements the logic of msmd.almaspws (CAS 5794) to determine the type of ALMA spw based on the numb...
casaEphemeris Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Finds the time sampling of an ephemeris table in the CASA repository in data/ephemerides/JPL H...
getEphemeris Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the ASDM_EPHEMERIS table from a measurement set. See also casaEphemeris. Usage: au.getEphem...
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surmiseCycleFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Finds the date of an ASDM and determines which ALMA Cycle it is from, using the following d...
surmiseConfigurationFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Compares the baseline statistics of an ALMA ASDM to the official configuration...
getMeanFreqFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the mean frequency of the spectral windows for each sideband, assuming that the bandwid...
getSpwsFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a dictionary of the spw information for every spw in the specified ASDM. Dictionary...
flagMatrix Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs the agent flagger tool on every baseline and generates an ASCII plot showing which baselines...
commonAntennas Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a list of the common antenna names between two (or more) datasets, or within the observa...
getAntennaNames Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the list of antenna names in the specified ms. Obsoleted by msmd.antennanames()....
getAntennaNamesForObsID Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the list of antenna names associated to a specific obsid of a multi obsid dataset. ...
fluxscaleParseLog Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Extracts the spectral index fit parameters from the ASCII file produced by the casa task fluxscale...
Usage of findChannelRanges Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Main Usage findChannelRanges(filename='', threshold=0.0, minwidth=1, startchan=0, chanav...
plotPointingTable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Plots the azimuth and elevation vs. timestamp of the entries in the POINTING table corresp...
Usage of splitListIntoContiguousLists Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a list of integers into a list of contiguous lists, and optionall...
getFlagStatistics Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Calls the af tool 7 times using the following categories: 'Total','Science spws','Band...
Trouble Shooting Tsys Tables. Run these before you create FDM Tsys. NOTE: the work arounds below assume that you have confirmed with plotms that the RAW DATA are ...
computeITRFCorrection Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the corrections to make to absolute geocentric coordinates XYZ (e.g. pad posi...
ispecs Return to directory of Todd's tools Runs ispec on a list of images Usage: tt.ispecs(images, outfile='', region='', sep=' ', format='%e', overwrite=True, ...
findNearestVLBISources Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads a VLBI catalog from astrogeo.org and finds all sources within specified radius ...
checkALMALogs Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Given a measurement set (or time range), downloads the ALMA logs recorded during this executio...
Usage of getObservationStart Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Read the start time of the observation and report it in MJD seconds. See also getO...
Usage of getObservationStartDate Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Read the start time of the observation from a measurement set and reports it in...
Usage of getObservationStopDate Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Read the stop time of the observation from a measurement set and reports it in d...
Usage of getObservationStop Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Read the stop time of the observation and report it in MJD seconds. See also getObs...
representativeFrequency Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Get the representative frequency from an ALMA ASDM. It also displays the min/max accept...
representativeFrequency Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Get the representative frequency from the ASDM_SBSUMMARY table of a measurement set,...
Usage of getBaselineStats Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Compute statistics on the baseline lengths of the specified ms. The lengths will be unpro...
Usage of getBaselineStatsFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Compute statistics on the (unprojected) baseline lengths of the specified ASDM. S...
Usage of makeSimulatedImage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses simobserve and simanalyze to create a simulated ALMA image of a point source at a...
makePtgfile Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Generates a ptgfile from an existing measurement set suitable for reading into simobserve. See...
Usage of rad2radec Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Convert a position in RA/Dec from radians to sexagesimal string which is comma delimited. The pos...
fixuvw Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the imtool toolkit to fix the uvw coordinates of a measurement set, equivalent to the fixuvw=True op...
getPolarizationsFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the Polarization.xml file of an ASDM and reports the number of polarization p...
getFieldIDsForEphemerisID Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a list of field IDs corresponding to an ephemeris ID of a measurement set....
flagcmdplot Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs flagcmd(action='plot') once per reason code and generates pngs and a big multi page PDF. See also ...
wvrdata Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Checks whether a dataset contains WVR corrected data or not, or both. Usage: au.wvrdata(asdm) Retur...
imageSum Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Sums a list of CASA images into a new image using immath. See also imagePeaks, imageSnrs, imageCentroids, ...
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runPredictcomp Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions A convenient wrapper for running the CASA task predictcomp. Usage: au.runPredictcomp(objname, minfre...
searchFluxForMS Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs a basic searchFlux on all calibrators in a measurement set. Usage: CASA : au.searchFluxForMS(...
addToStateTable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Appends one (or more) rows to the STATE table of a measurement set. Useful for testing SMA d...
plotAntennaAmbientTemperatures Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Retrieves data from the ALMA TMCDB and makes two plots of antenna ambient temperature...
readAntennaPositionFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function uses the ASDM bindings from casapy telcal and reads the Antenna positi...
addGaussianToFITSImage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Add a 2D Gaussian source to a 2D FITS image and create a sum image. See also addGaussian...
subtractGaussianFromImage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Subtract a 2D Gaussian from an image and create a difference image. See also normalizeImag...
addGaussianToImage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Add a 2D Gaussian source to a 2D CASA image and create a sum image. See also subtractGaussia...
makeGaussianForImage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Take a CASA 2D image as a template, and build a 2D image with a single Gaussian compone...
bandwidthsForField Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Uses the msmd tool to find the bandwidths for the spws used to observe the specified fiel...
Testing of May 2013 heuristics Note: If the link to the analyzemscal result is broken, this project has not been run through the new pipeline yet. * Older resu...
Testing of March 2013 heuristics * Newer results are on the May2013 wiki and Sep2013 wiki * NaascPipeTest internal wiki * Feedback page * Summary of d...
plotParallacticAngle Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Plot the parallactic angle for a given RA/Dec, and over a specified range of LST or hour an...
headerToArcsec Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a CASA angle quantity dictionary to the angle in arcsec. See also headerToRadian an...
parallacticAngle Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Compute the instantaneous parallactic angle for a given RA/Dec. See also plotParallacticAngle....
headerToRadian Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a CASA angle quantity dictionary to the angle in radians. See also headerToDegree a...
headerToDegree Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a CASA angle quantity dictionary to the angle in degrees. See also headerToRadian a...
modifyAntennaDiameter Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Set the antenna diameter to the specified value in the ANTENNA table of a measurement set. Us...
transferWeights Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Copies the weights from one ms to another ms, requiring that both have the same number of ro...
readTMCDBVersionPadHistory Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a dictionary of timestamps (keyed by version number) of all updates of the sp...
readTMCDBVersionAntennaHistory Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a dictionary of timestamps (keyed by version number) of all updates of TM...
compareTMCDB Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the current pad and antenna position values from the TMCDB, then compares them to what is ...
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plotElevationSummary Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This is a simple wrapper to plotms to plot a summary of elevation vs time for a dataset, color ...
fillZerosInDate Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a string like '2014 5 6' into '2014 05 06'. Usage: au.fillZerosInDate(datestring) Main.T...
imageStdVariation Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Measures the standard deviation of an image in lots of boxes (spread uniformly over the im...
makeDirtyCube Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Automatically chooses cell size and imsize (using pickCellSize) and makes a dirty cube. Usage: au.mak...
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spectralindex Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function is designed to fit a power law spectral index to the results output from casa's ...
bandpassPreAverage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the minimum required pre averaging bandwidth to achieve the specified accuracy l...
cubeDerivative Return to directory of Todd's tools Compute the derivative along the spectral axis of a cube. Sets the two edge channels of the result to zero. U...
Usage of splitListIntoHomogeneousLists Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a list of integers into a list of contiguous lists. See also spl...
fixEps Return to directory of Todd's tools Adjusts the bounding box of an eps file so that the BLC is non negative, while keeping the total extent the sam...
removeNaNs Return to directory of Todd's tools Remove or replace the nan values from a (possibly multi dimensional) array. Usage: tt.removeNaNs(b, replaceWit...
Usage for polarizationUncertainty Return to directory of Todd's tools Usage: au.polarizationUncertainty(I, Q, U, sigma): * I, Q, U: the flux densities of thes...
sidebandToNetSideband Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts from the 1, 1 convention for LSB,USB to the measurement set convention 1, 2 . ...
gridSourceReport Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Builds a table showing the age (in days) of the most recent measurements of the ALMA grid sources. ...
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Agenda and Minutes May 15, 2015, 1300 UT AGENDA * PENDING: just a copy od last meetings minutes at the moment * Help desk testing (Anand) * Common help desk...
filtwav Return to directory of Todd's tools Prints the filter wavelength contained in a filter defining FITS file in Robitaille's sedfitter module. See als...
show_circles_intersecting Return to directory of Todd's tools Implements aplpy's show_circles function but prevents drawing the portions that intersect with oth...
buildFilterConvolutions Return to directory of Todd's tools Add new filters to Robitaille's sedfitter module, or simply plot them. See also filtwav. Usage: tt....
Usage for plotWVRSolutions Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Although plotcal can be used to plot WVR solutions on an antenna basis, it is not very...
computePercentiles Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the requested percentile values for a data array. Usage: au.computePercentiles(data, va...
Usage of buildConfigurationFile Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions buildConfigurationFile(vis='', simmospath=None, field='', dropTPpads=False, output='...
filterSources Return to directory of Todd's tools Reads a list of source coordinate positions and filters them to be within a specified box on the sky, and writes...
getMedianTsysForChannel Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the median over all antennas of a single Tsys channel in one spw in one ASDM...
getTsysFromSysCal Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function reads the Tsys values from SysCal.xml table of the specified ASDM into a dictionary ...
plotAplpyLines Return to directory of Todd's tools Plots line segments from an ASCII file onto an aplpy FITS figure. Usage: tt.plotAplpyLines(ff, myfile, color='...
Usage of radec2rad Convert an RA/Dec string in sexagesimal format to RA and Dec in radians. See also radec2deg, rad2radec, direction2radec, radec2direction and ra...
Usage of radec2deg Convert an RA/Dec string in sexagesimal format to RA and Dec in degrees. See also radec2rad, rad2radec, direction2radec, radec2direction and ra...
northalign Return to directory of Todd's tools Use the python montage wrapper to align a FITS image to north up. Usage: tt.northalign(fitsfile, outfile='') M...
imshift Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Shift the reference pixel of a CASA image header by a specified angle in RA/Dec. See also normallizeImage, ...
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clusterStatistics Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the x and y coordinates of points from specified columns in an ASCII file, and compu...
interpretLOs Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Interpret (and optionally print) the LO settings for an MS. Note: printLOs is now simply a wrapper fo...
Usage for sun Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Determines the azimuth and elevation of the Sun at the specified observatory and specified time. T...
importfitshdu Imports one or more HDUs from a FITS image into separate casa images. USage: tt.importfitshdu(fitsfile, whichhdu= 1 ) Example: CASA : tt.importfit...
getRADecForFieldFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the RA, Dec for a specified field in an ASDM. See also getRADecForField. Usage:...
replaceMonth Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Replaces a 3 character month string with its 2 character integer string. Usage: au.replaceMonth(date...
imageSnrs Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Calls imageSnr on a list of images. See also imagePeaks. Usage: au.imageSnrs(images, blc=None, trc=N...
Usage of editFieldname Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Changes a field name in a measurement set (in 2 tables: SOURCE and FIELD). See also editInt...
Usage of editFieldnameASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Changes a field name in the ASDM (in 4 files: Source.xml, Scan.xml, Subscan.xml and Field...
Usage of plotmosaic Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Also see the casaguide page for this function Produce a plot of the pointings in an ms with the ...
imageStds Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Calls imageStd on a list of images. Usage: au.imageStds(images, blc=None, trc=None, applymask=False, ...
beamSolidAngle Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts a Gaussian beam FWHM from arcsec into equivalent solid angle in steradians using the formul...
Usage of getObservationSummaryFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Read the start time and stop of the observation and the list of antennas ...
Usage of getObservationDateRangeFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Read the start and stop time of the observation from the ExecBlock.xml ...
farfieldDistance Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the distance in AU for: 2*B_max**2 / wavelength Usage: au.farfieldDistance(vis=None,...
Images selected by ASAC in 2007 for 1 astronomical relevance 1 high S/N dynamic range ( 1000) 1 high spatial dynamic range ( 100) All model images were m...
Usage of getObservationEndDateFromASDM Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Read the stop time of the observation from the ExecBlock.xml file of and ...
brightness Return to directory of Todd's tools Convert flux density, beamsize, and frequency to brightness temperature (both the Rayleigh Jean and Planck values)....
Welcome to the home of NRAO Public Wiki.ALMA. This is a web based collaboration area for people associated with the ALMA facility. This "wiki" web is viewable fro...
interpolateTable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Perform a spline (or other type of) interpolation on any two columns in a table of data from an ASC...
fluxscaleMean Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the mean flux density for a field across all spws in a dictionary returned by fluxsca...
plotBaselinesOneScan Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions A convenient wrapper for plotms to show all spws for a single baseline on one page, and do ...
nextHighestIntegerEvenlyDivisible Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions For a specified integer, checks whether it is evenly divisible by a second integer...
imageSmooth Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs the CASA task imsmooth on a list of images. Usage: au.imageSmooth(images, major, minor='', pa='', ...
March 2015 ANASAC Telecon Notes Attendees: Douglas Scott, Dick Plambeck, Alberto Bolatto, Rachel Osten, Karin Oberg, Al Wootten, Phil Jewell, James Di Francesco, ...
ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee * Long Baselines, lonely antennas: Contact Information for those calling in. * Call date: 2015 3 02 3:30 pm E...
nextPowerOfTwo Return to directory of Todd's tools Computes the power of 2 that is greater than or equal to the specified integer. Usage: tt.nextPowerOfTwo(n) E...
fluxscaleLogMean Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads a concatenation of fluxscale log messages and computes the statistics on the flux den...
NAASC User Support Group Wiki * Group Lead: C. Lonsdale * NRAO User Support Staff: J. Braatz, J. Crossley, A. Evans, R. Freisen, A. Hale, D. Johnstone, A. L...
Agenda and Minutes Feb 06, 2015, 1300 UT AGENDA * Introducing Rein Warmels, our new member of the EU triage team (Suzanna is no longer sharing this duty) ...
getUT Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Gets the current universal time in hours. See also computeUTForElevation, getMJD, mjdToUT, and ComputeLST ....
imageImstats Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs imageImstat on a list of images and reports back a list of values of a keyword. See also imagePe...
ispec Return to directory of Todd's tools Emulates AIPS' ISPEC function to produce an ASCII spectrum from a CASA image, using the region tool (rg) and the...
imageCentroid Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the image statistics and the center of mass (centroid) using scipy's center_of_mass function....
parseUvrange Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Accepts a string specifying uvrange (in meters or klambkda) and converts it to minimum and maxi...
Usage for getBaselineLengths Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Determines the baseline lengths for the specified ms and returns a list of tupl...
effectiveAntennas Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the effective number of antennas for a given number of baselines. Usage: au.effectiveAnt...
montagePngs Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Takes 2, 3 or 4 pngs, and puts them onto one page as a new png. See also montageTwoPngLists. Usage...
ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee * Long Baselines, lonely antennas: Contact Information for those calling in. * Call date: 2015 1 15 2:00 pm ...
inclinationError Return to directory of Todd's tools Computes the uncertainty on the inclination of a circular disk based on the apparent major and minor axes...
Usage for medianFrequencyOfIntent Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the median of the mean frequency (in Hz) of the spws observed with the...
spectraOverlay Return to directory of Todd's tools Reads an ASCII spectral profile file produced by the CASA viewer, and overlays the lines in different color...
ispecOverlay Return to directory of Todd's tools Overlay the spectrum from a single pixel from multiple CASA cubes. See also ispec, and spectraOverlay. Usage: t...
From Harold's email, 1/21/2015: This is the current list of "reasons" we have agreed upon to normalize and do statistics of the flagging that is entered into PL ...
imageSnr Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Measures the ratio of the peak to standard deviation of a CASA image. See also imageSnrs. Usage: au.image...
imageStd Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the standard deviation of pixel values of a CASA image. See also imageStds. Usage: au.imageStd...
imagePeak Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the peak pixel value of a CASA image. See also imageCentroid and ImagePeaks. Usage: au.imagePeak...
normalizeImage Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Read a CASA image (or list of images), and normalize the intensity scale to a specified value (defa...
Usage for dateStringToMJD Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Convert a date/time string to floating point MJD. Input date format: * 2011/10/15 05:0...
Usage for dateStringToMJDSec Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function converts a date string into MJD seconds. This value is useful for passin...
imageCentroids Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs imageCentroid for a list of images. Usage: au.imageCentroids(images, threshold=0, axis3channel=...
ANASAC Telecon (15/01/15) Present: Alberto Bolatto, Dick Plambeck, Tony Remijan, Al Wootten, Shep Doeleman, Carol Lonsdale, Rachel Osten, James Di Franc...
hours2radec Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Convert a position (or list of positions) in RA/Dec from hours/degrees to sexagesimal string. S...
Usage of radecOffsetToRadec Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Convert an RA/Dec position and offsets into a new RA/Dec position. See also rad2radec, d...
almaAntennaDiameters Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns a list of antenna diameters in meters given a list of antenna names. See also AlmaAn...
almaAntennaDiameter Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the antenna diameter in meters as a function of its name (because this functionality is ...
exportfits Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs the CASA task exportfits, automatically appending '.fits' to the image name. Also processes ...