Contents

 
• INTRODUCTION
• OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
  • Overview
  • Some useful tips for new AIPS users
  • File system management and network use at the ATNF
    • File systems
    • How to use the network
• BASIC CONCEPTS OF CALIBRATION FOR ATCA DATA
  • Antenna-based gain calibration
  • Stokes Parameters and Polarization
  • Should I calibrate in AIPS or MIRIAD ?
  • Do I really an offline secondary calibration at all ?
  • All about XY phase differences
• LOADING YOUR ATCA DATA INTO AIPS
  • Data on Exabyte tape written with VMS COPY
    • Loading the data directly from Exabyte tape into AIPS
    • Copying your data from Exabyte tape to disk
  • Data on 9-track tape written with VMS backup
  • Reading your data from disk into AIPS
  • How to use ATLOD
  • Some Examples of using ATLOD
  • Show and Tell
• INITIALIZATION OF THE MULTI-SOURCE FILE
  • Sorting and Indexing
  • Summarizing the Observation
  • Setting the Flux Density Scale
  • Setting the Velocity Scale
• AVERAGING DATA IN FREQUENCY AND TIME
  • Should I average my continuum data in frequency ?
  • How do I average my data in frequency ?
  • Spectral binning
  • Averaging in time
• EDITING THE DATA
  • Averaged continuum (channel 0) data
  • Spectral (line or continuum) data
• DETERMINING THE ANTENNA GAINS
  • What to do with spectral data
  • Computation
  • Should I scalar or vector average in the solution interval ?
  • Assessment and inspection of the gain solutions
  • Deleting SN tables
• CORRECTING THE FLUX DENSITY SCALE OF SECONDARY CALIBRATORS
• INTERPOLATION OF THE GAIN SOLUTIONS
  • General information
  • Computation
  • What to do with gain jumps
  • Assessment of calibration
  • Resetting the calibration
• BANDPASS CALIBRATION FOR SPECTRAL DATA
  • General
  • Transfer of the calibration to the spectral data
  • Computation
• APPLYING THE CALIBRATION TO THE VISIBILITIES
• SPECTRAL-LINE SPECIFIC PROCESSING
  • General
  • Disk management
  • Continuum subtraction
    • Subtraction in the image domain by subtracting dirty images
    • Subtraction in the image and visibility domains combined
    • Subtraction in the visibility domain
  • Velocities and reference frames
  • Associating a velocity with a channel
    • Multi-source files
    • Single-source files
• HOW TO COMBINE MULTI-CONFIGURATION DATA
  • Concatenation
  • A warning for users of NRAO AIPS
  • Conversion of single-source files to multi-source files
• IMAGING
  • General
  • Imaging one channel and one freqid
    • Sorting
    • Imaging
  • Imaging one channel and multiple freqids
  • Imaging multiple channels
  • Imaging multiple freqids and multiple channels
  • Imaging spectral-line data
• IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION (DECONVOLUTION)
  • Deconvolution with CLEAN
    • The Högbom CLEAN
    • The Clark CLEAN
    • The SDI CLEAN
    • The Cotton-Schwab CLEAN
    • Prussian helmets
    • Computation
  • Deconvolution with maximum entropy algorithms
    • Theory
    • Computation
  • Correcting for the Primary Beam
• SELF CALIBRATION
  • General
  • Computation
• AVAILABLE TASKS in AIPS
  • Tasks to Create uv Data Files
  • General Calibration Tasks
  • Editing/data Examination Tasks
  • Imaging and Deconvolution Tasks
  • Display Tasks
  • Analysis Tasks
  • Utility Tasks
• DISCUSSION OF SOME SELECTED AIPS CALIBRATION ADVERBS
• COMMONLY ENCOUNTERED TABLES IN AIPS
• EFFECTS OF AVERAGING IN FREQUENCY AND TIME
  • Averaging in frequency
  • Averaging in time
• Index

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ANALYSIS OF AUSTRALIA TELESCOPE
COMPACT ARRAY DATA WITH AIPS
0.5truecm Neil Killeen, ATNF
ATNF manual No. K2
Version 4
November 27 1993

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