General nrao home page alma home page staff webpages cvcs cvcs market nmccs dictionary. This is a webbased collaboration area for use by both nrao and our colleagues who use casa. Customers are free to read these docs, but mostly they will not care about then. Fitsview for ms windows national radio astronomy observatory. The following information addresses details specific to executing casa or aips at the nrao. The fitsview programs are distributed free of charge by the usa national radio astronomy observatory. Picasa searches for all the images in your hd and show them in the eyecatching and intuitive interface. Asiaa casa development center acdc acknowledges the grant from the ministry of science and. Alma pipeline 3d viewer project our best developer. To start the current release version of casa, type. One should test the viewer as described in casa user manual, casa. The viewer is nice, but limiting in several aspects. Casa common astronomy software applications is the data analysis software package for the next generation of radio telescopes, specifically alma and the evla. The national radio astronomy observatory nrao designs, builds, and runs the worlds most sophisticated radio telescopes for scientists to study the sun.
The national radio astronomy observatory is actively seeking a candidate with a combination of software, management, and ideally, astronomy experience to join the data management and software dms department as. During the square kilometer array ska board of directors meeting, the ska organisation and nrao signed a memorandum of understanding mou for the design and development of new data models to address the data processing requirements of their nextgeneration telescopes the mou establishes an agreement for collaborative and continued development work on the common astronomy software. Description the viewer will display images in raster, contour, vector or marker form. The national radio astronomy observatory nrao designs, builds, and runs the worlds most sophisticated radio telescopes for scientists to study the sun, planets, solar system, distant stars, galaxies, black holes, and other mysterious objects millions to billions of lightyears away. The common astronomy software applications casa package, being developed by nrao and alma, will be used for offline reduction and analysis of both alma and evla data. Fits4win2 viewer shareware with free beta version a fits viewer for windows. The casaviewer is an important component of casa because it provides the user. The casa viewer software can be used to turn the spectral cubes and continuum images into publicationready plots. If the scaling power cycles is set to 0 the default, the program considers a linear range from. The package can process both interferometric and single dish data. Note that the viewer can open fits files, casa image files. It is funded by the national science foundation and is managed by associated universities, inc.
Please send any comments or questions about casa to the nrao helpdesk via your my. The national radio astronomy observatory nrao designs. As the image size increases drastically with modern telescopes in recent years, viewing. Software development teams from academia sinica institute of astronomy and astrophysics in taiwan, the institute for data intensive astronomy in. Carta is the cube analysis and rendering tool for astronomy, a new image visualization and analysis tool designed for the alma, the vla, and the ska pathfinders. The casa viewer has not been maintained for some time now in anticipation of replacement by a brand new application. Radio astronomy software defined radio rasdr society.
Science pipeline national radio astronomy observatory. The full text is available with every aips release and may be read here. The common astronomy software applications casa package being developed by nrao and alma will be used for offline reduction and analysis of both alma and evla data. Casa derivatives, such as plotms or the viewer, can be started outside of the casa session, by typing casaplotms casaviewer. Travel support for nrao observing runs and data reduction. Docker files for nrao casa shell 3 3 0 0 updated nov 2. If you have data that were reduced or analyzed with the casa software package, you may use the following casa.
Follow the obtaining casa link for the latest installation packages. These are used primarily by casa software engineering internally. Casa common astronomy software applications is a comprehensive software package to calibrate, image, and analyze radio astronomical data from interferometers such as alma and vla as well as single dish telescopes. Casa is easy to navigate, but errors messages are sometimes obscure. An electric wave is described by ampra, dec, spectral. For detailed information regarding data processing refer to the casa and aips documentation pages. The radio astronomy software defined receiver rasdr is a system that provides a versatile software defined receiver sdr that is optimized for radio astronomy.
Software development teams from academia sinica institute of astronomy and astrophysics in taiwan, the institute for data intensive astronomy in south africa, and nrao. A new feature that has been requested from the users has finally come to the helpdesk. The following information is likely outdated but could still be helpful if you want to install casa on nonredhat platforms. The most convenient way to bring this up is via the command line i. Knowledgebase powered by kayako help desk software. The x virtual frame buffer is only used by the viewer to transfer nongui outputs to the terminal. This wiki provides tutorials for reducing data in casa. Nrao helpdesk powered by kayako help desk software. National radio astronomy observatory nrao department of physics, university of alberta.
Example five uses lattice image expression language to display the square of the image data. The viewer display panel left and the data manager right panel for a regular image or data cube. Casa derivatives, such as plotms or the viewer, can be started outside of the casa session. The atacama large millimetersubmillimeter array is the precision multitool for mapping the once hidden, detailed activities of the cosmos. Casas software for accountability and documentation and. The fitsview family consists of viewers for astronomical images in fits format. Casas provides electronic tools to put powerful accountability information in the hands of teachers, program administrators, and state and federal decision makers. I consent for nrao to process the information i provide through the helpdesk. Patrick brandt software engineer, next generation very. Founded in 1956, the nrao provides stateoftheart radio telescope facilities for use by the international scientific community. Works as an extension to windows explorer and includes support for viewing thumbnail images of fits files. This chapter describes using the casa viewer to display data.
Aws is a collection of physical assets and software tools for using ad hoc computing resources cloud computing within amazon. This is done via the cache viewer in the control panel. Green bank rfi regulations for visitors pdf permission form pdf to use when visiting nrao with your laptop. Atacama large millimetersubmillimeter array national. Viewers are available for mswindows, macintosh and unix systems and offer a wide variety of image display features. Keep your astronomy analysis software uptodate software packages click the column headings to sort. Casa, the common astronomy software applications package, is the. Nrao common astronomy software applications casa lead. Fits image viewers national radio astronomy observatory. Casatesting viewer scripts testing instructions data files for these tests. Carta is expected to replace the casa viewer in the foreseeable future. Casa home page casa cookbook nrao bug trk other apod wm ws mt smiths ips robtx nrao ess access etk access etk guide wx. Nrao newsletter national radio astronomy observatory.
Powered by a free atlassian jira open source license for casa. To run these tests, you need to have downloaded the regressionviewertest subdirectory of the. National radio astronomy observatory nrao, the national radio observatory of the united states. The nrao is pleased to announce new online documentation covering the use of amazon web services aws computing resources for processing data with the common astronomy software applications casa package. The casa users committee cuc was formed in 2014 on the initiative of the nrao data management and software department.
Troubleshooting national radio astronomy observatory. Instructions for downloading and installing casa are available from the obtaining casa site alma data should be able to be processed with a the same or a more recent version of the pipeline as was used for the original processing which is reported in. National radio astronomy observatory observatory, green. Rasdr2 is the current hardware that is in testing with a planned general release at this conference. Without any doubt, the presentation is one of the high points of this applications.
Please be aware that you can only reply to tickets via email. The national radio astronomy observatory is a facility of the national science foundation operated under cooperative agreement by associated universities, inc. National radio astronomy observatory revealing the. When you get a notification of a reply to your helpdesk ticket, you can now hit reply in your email client instead of logging into help. Patrick brandt software engineer at national radio astronomy observatory socorro, new mexico. While using this new feature, we ask you to keep in mind the following. What may have happened here is that the gui that requests the users password has got lost under other windows. The national radio astronomy observatory nrao designs, builds. Its principal role is to provide advice on the user community perceptions of the common astronomy software applications casa package, primarily for alma and vla observations. About casa casa, the common astronomy software applications package, is being developed with the primary goal of supporting the data postprocessing needs of the next generation of radio astronomical telescopes such as alma and vla. Alma is a premier telescope for studying the first stars and galaxies that emerged from the cosmic dark ages billions of years ago. The alma science pipeline is released as part of casa, the common astronomy software applications package.