EU ARC CASA Support

General

There are several CASA support channels:

• The CASA home page, Using CASA (for all CASA users)

• The NRAO helpdesk (for all CASA users)

• The ALMA helpdesk (for CASA users wishing to analyse ALMA data)

In addition, the EU ARC and its nodes are offering CASA tutorials and face-to-face support.

Upcoming CASA Tutorials

• For tutorials at the EU ARC Nodes, please consult their local web pages.

Past CASA Tutorials (since the start of Cycle 0)

• EU ARC ALMA Data Reduction Tutorial for Cycle 1 PIs, ESO, 21/22 Feb 2013
• EU ARC ALMA Data Reduction Tutorial for Cycle 0 PIs, ESO, 19/20 Jan 2012

Miscellaneous CASA-related products of the EU ARC

• Report on formal testing of CASA imaging at ESO 2011-2012 (pdf with active html links)

• Paper to reference for CASA: Petry, D. et al., 2012, "Analysing ALMA Data with CASA", in Proc. ADASS XXI, P. Ballester & D. Egret (eds.), ASP Conference Series vol. 461, p. 849

• Description of benchmark tests of ALMA data analysis with CASA on several platforms incl. a workstation with solid state disk

• CASA benchmark data and scripts based on the TW Hya ALMA Band 7 CASA guide

• gensynthcube.py (1) - a casapy script to generate input images for simulations based on generic geometrical shapes (run execfile('gensynthcube.py') to activate)

• gensynthcube-test.py (1) - test and demo script for gensynthcube.py

• synth.txt: Set of commands by A. Richards to take an observed, calibrated measurement set and inject some models to test whether they are recoverable by imaging. Uses gensynthcube.py .

• curses5.5-32bit.tgz: The ncurses libraries needed to overcome a problem with casa 3.3 on Fedora 11 (32bit). Copy curses5.5-32bit.tgz to casapy-33.0.16856-002/lib and unpack.

• curses5.5.tgz: The ncurses libraries needed to overcome a problem with casa 3.3 on Fedora 11 (64bit). Copy curses5.5.tgz to casapy-33.0.16856-002-64b/lib64 and unpack.

(1) To access these links you will need to type username "anonymous" and an empty password.

Useful links

• ALMA Analysis Utilities CASA guide

• The CASA User Scripts and Tasks page

-- DirkPetry - 17 Jan 2013