ALMA pads and baselines Here is a radial logarithmic plot showing all pad names and the Cycle 5 configuration 10. ALMA baseline lengths * Computed from the al...
Theoretical beam shapes and ALMA measured beams There are two sets of model beam images for DA and DV antennas. TICRA supplied the electric field simulation data...
ALMA Correlator data normalization Steve Scott's memo on normalization George M.'s comments: BTW, I noticed that the real and imag parts of the visibilities are q...
ALMA correlator fiber optic patch panel info Documentation * ALMA 54.10.02.00 0007 B PR: Proper use for AOS Fiber Optic Patch Panel Procedure (local .doc l...
ALMA Data Rate Concerns * ALMA 70.00.00.00 004 A SPE: ALMA Export Data Format: 2004 04 14: "Each actual cross correlation spectral data element is stored as a ...
Digitizer target threshold levels In Gianni's ALMA Memo 583, footnote 2 indicates that the target level for 2 bit TDM mode should be 1.4 dB higher than FDM. The ...
ALMA FE Info (links to old EDM, new EDM, JIRA and elsewhere) Science and System level Specifications * ALMA Scientific Specifications and requirements (local ...
Default rules for ALMA LO modulation (i.e. Walsh phase switching and/or LO offsetting) * This wikipage was written as part of the Observing Modes Workshop (Jan...
Action item 19 from ALMA ObsMode Cycle 2 workshop See spreadsheet at Cycle2ObservingModesWorkshop with Todd's response: I recommend keeping the limit of 150 point...
Planning the usage of Solar System bodies as calibrators in ALMA Cycle 0 There are two things to consider when choosing a Solar System body as a calibrator: 1...
ALMA Correlator Quantization Correction Meetings * 2010 Mar 25 * 2010 Apr 14 New memos * Four Level van Vleck Correction via Table Lookup by F. Schwab ...
ALMA Systems Requirements Revision * ALMA 2030 roadmap * ALMA Project System Level Technical Requirements: 2012 12 10 * ALMA Scientific Requirements (200...
ALMA Correlator Window Functions The ALMA correlator can apply a variety of window functions to the time domain data. These are selectable in Phase 2 of the Obse...
Testing the effective bandwidth of ALMA data channels 1. Baseline Correlator Richard Hills' Note on Spectral Response (April 2012) includes a prediction of the ...
Antenna shadowing considerations * Urvashi's memo on shadow flagging in CASA * au.getShadowedBaselines Plots of percentage area shadowed vs. linear overlap...
applyQA0FlagsToCaltable Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Reads the FLAG_CMD column from a measurement set and applies it to a caltable. See al...
asdmExport Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Runs asdmExportLight on the NRAO CV Lustre system (last updated for C4 ACS on Aug 24, 2016) on one A...
asdmbits Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Searches each ASDMBinary file and tabulates how many integrations that contain CROSS data are 16 bi...
Band 4 cold cartridge waivers Gain compression * 001 Cross polarization * 001 ( 19.9 dB at 161 GHz) Noise temperature * 001 Unverified specifications...
How to build ALMA TelCal on the CV Lustre cluster TelCal is the software executed online during ALMA observations to compute things like Tsys spectra and pointing...
Comparison of calibration techniques in the presence of rapidly varying atmospheric phase Dataset EVLA BnA configuration continuum dataset \ Date = Ma...
CVStarFormationGroup * Member list (comma separated list): * Set GROUP = Main.RemyIndebetouw, Main.KelseyJohnson, Main.CrystalBrogan, Main.ScottSchnee, Ma...
Documentation/Listing of tasks in analysisUtils (including some from analyzemscal and analyzemsimage) The analysisUtils python package provides numerous (over 130...
Dunham, M.~K., Robitaille, T.~P., Evans, N.~J., II, Schlingman, W.~M., Cyganowski, C.~J., Urquhart, J.\ 2011.\ A Mid infrared Census of Star Formation Activity ...
Cold cartridge waivers Note: These lists are not guaranteed to be complete or up to date. They were built from EDM searches on Feb 1, 2010. * WVR * Band 3 ...
computeUTForElevation Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions For a specified RA/Dec, date/MJD, and elevation, compute the UT time that the object w...
computeYLimitsForXLimits Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the Y axis limits to autorange over the specified x axis range. Returns a list of...
computeYStatsForXLimits Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Computes the Y axis statistics (mean, std, median, min, max) over the specified x ax...
convertColonDelimitersToHMSDMS Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts HH:MM:SS.SSS, DD:MM:SS.SSS to HHhMMmSS.SSSs, DDdMMmSS.SSSs Usage:...
convertImageToDirectionType Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Converts an image with Linear coordinate system type to Direction. Useful for ALMA ast...
Reiter, M., Shirley, Y.~L., Wu, J., Brogan, C., Wootten, A., Tatematsu, K.\ 2011.\ The Physical Properties of High mass Star forming Clumps: A Systematic Compar...
Beam scans of Band 3 feed at room temperature at Green Bank Links * Front End Integration Center beam scanning wikipage Details * Date: December 3 4, 2008...
getReferenceFrequency Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions Returns the reference frequency (in Hz) of the specified spw of a caltable. See also modifyRef...
Greenland Telescope At the September 2012 workshop in Cambridge, MA, the question arose as to the joint visibility of M87 from the EHT sites. Here is the answer...
Simulations of multiple snapshot performance for ALMA This page was originally created for ALMA Early Science Cycle 0 (16 antennas), and all of the results below...
Links to miscellaneous JIRA tickets of interest * CASA git documentation * How to format JIRA comments * pipeline team calendar * Pipeline development...
Imaging tests with polynomial ephemerides for solar system bodies in casa Note: As of casa 3.3, the task fixplanets can be used to fix the coordinates of bodies w...
CSV activities Sept 2013 Tickets * Parent: CSV 2570 CSV 2570 : Develop a new regression suite including performance, mode and software regression SBs ...
Using ImageMagick's command line tools In writing data analysis reports, it is often useful to add place arbitrary captions onto the bottom of images and combine ...
InterferometryDiscussionGroup 2011 2012 This is the page for the 2011 2012 IDG. To see the page for the 2010 2011 academic year, see: 2010 2011 IDG Meetings: Tu...
Sidereal tracking rates for Mauna Kea In testing the performance of antenna servo systems for low velocity tracking (at the specified minimum smooth velocity), it...
Mosaic sensitivity As of 2011 February (it has since been fixed using the formulae on this page), the ALMA sensitivity calculator reports rms values for the centr...
Allowed "multiple regions modes" for the ALMA bilateral correlator Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:05:11 0500 From: Rich Lacasse Hi Todd, The table you have below is ...
Information below is for record keeping. To be updated. Baseline Funding Levels As of 2014 05 01 the baseline funding levels per fiscal year are as follows: *...
Progress on porting PFM5 Matlab scripts to octave Octave software * version 3.0.0 downloaded from gnu.org and compiled on Todd's laptop (serenity) and the ptc...
Beuther, H., Linz, H., Henning, T., Bik, A., Wyrowski, F., Schuller, F., Schilke, P., Thorwirth, S., Kim, K. T.\ 2011.\ High mass star formation at high luminosit...
Cycle 1 Specification for adding a second phase calibrator (based on the Cycle 1 Observing Modes workshop (July 2012)) Implementation SB generation by the OT in ...
Using Linux mdbtools * Linux mdbtools by Brian Bruns * some additional documentation Starting the gui Gnome MDB Viewer, version 0.6pre1: thunter@LOCALHOST...
Acronyms related to SIS receiver development * ICP = Inductively Coupled Plasma (an etching technique) * SEM = Scanning Electron Microscope * TRL resonat...
Povich, M.~S., and 13 colleagues 2011.\ A Pan Carina Young Stellar Object Catalog: Intermediate mass Young Stellar Objects in the Carina Nebula Identified Via ...
SMA 12.4 GHz Phase Monitor Documentation * article in SMA Newsletter (Jan 2010) * link to my website documentation (requires login) * Kim's presentation...
Determining the velocity scale for SMA spectra, and getting data into CASA Unlike ALMA and VLA, the SMA does not observe in the observatory's topocentric frame, b...
Traditional Holography Scripts User's Guide Overview This is a guide on how to use the new Traditional Holography scripts. These are essentially a port of the ol...
ALMA CSV tests than can use SiO masers J=2 1 (for triggering 32 bit data storage) Email sent to ramestica on 2014 02 14 Hi Rodrigo, Here are the recommended ...
VLA mosaic regression Goal Compare Steve's regression script on a 9 point Orion mosaic with simdata in order to investigate the problem where simdata mosaics pre...
Selecting solar system objects as amplitude calibrators Sent to JAO on February 5, 2013 SS Objects ordered by how accurate their models are expected to be. * ...
Combining images into a multi panel image with captions (using ImageMagick) convert tsys.spw0.t1.png pointsize 48 label:'Here is a Tsys plot' gravity Center ...
Thermal Surface Analysis Understanding the changes of the surface due to differential thermal deformations. See previous work by Todd Hunter. Using archival Auto...
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:38:26 0000From: Richard Hills rhills@alma.cl To: Todd R. Hunter thunter@nrao.edu Cc: Kamaljeet S Saini ksaini@nrao.edu , Bojan Nikol...
Documentation of functions in toddTools.py Return to directory of CASA extensions in analysisUtils.py A broken link here simply means that the command exists and ...
December 2007 track map Links * Summary and comparison of all track maps * Revised, simplified version, April 2009 * More recent writeup of processing ...
Cycle 4 (and late Cycle 3) datasets reduced in NA that required manual flagging Below is an analysis of the manual flagging required for all Cycle 4 NA results (...
Status of wvrgcal in Charlottesville. As of casapy 3.4 (CAS 3513), wvrgcal is now wrapped as a CASA task. Thus, the rest of this page is mostly obsolete. This pa...