Information for the Tutorial sessions
The hands-on sessions of the radio school will consist of several elective options including visiting one of the antennas, observing with the ATCA, data reduction and data analysis sessions. We will have data reduction sessions aimed at absolute beginners and also sessions aimed at participants who already have some experience with radio astronomy data.
For the data reduction tutorials we would like to ask you to install some software in advance. See the list in the Software requirements section.
Software requirements:
Additional recommended software:
We also recommend some additional software for data analysis and visualisation.
- Kvis from the Karma package - to view radio astronomy images and data cubes.
- Ds9 - a simple way to view fits images and data cubes.
- CASA - can do data reduction, data analysis and visualisation.
- Python and Jupyter Notebook - for advanced data analysis and visualisation.
Tutorial resources:
- Wasim's tutorial on Fourier Transforms
- Jennifer West: Spatial Filtering and Convolution
- Jordan's data inspection tutorial
- Comparison of optical and radio terminology
- friendlyVRI
Additional resources:
- Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy - open access book.
- Essential Radio Astronomy - NRAO lecture notes.
- Online available Miriad tutorials
- Online available CASA tutorials
Talks from previous Radio Schools:
- Talks from the CSIRO Radio School 2009
- Talks from the CSIRO Radio School 2010
- Talks from the CSIRO Radio School 2011
- Talks from the CSIRO Radio School 2012
- Talks from the CSIRO Radio School 2014
- Talks from the CSIRO Radio School 2015
- Talks from the CSIRO Radio School 2017