Radio Interferometry SS 2018 (astro8404)
Prof. Dr. Frank Bertoldi, Dr. Stefanie Mühle, Dr. Benjamin Magnelli, PD Dr. Rainer Mauersberger, Dr. Lydia Moser, Dr. Alvaro Sánchez-MongeCourse Material
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Presentations
General Introduction to Radio Interferometry
Introduction to Radio Interferometry I+II
Introduction to CASA I handout
Introduction to CASA II handout
CASA tutorial I: general overview, import, listobs
CASA tutorial II: a priori calibration
CASA tutorial IV: bandpass, flux
CASA tutorial V: phase, apply split
CASA tutorial VI: continuum image
CASA tutorial VIII: line image, moments, pv
CASA tutorial IX: self calibration
Advanced topics: polarization, VLBI
Material for the hands-on part
For reference: asdm, listobs, plotants
script for calibration: import, apriori
script for calibration: bandpass
script for calibration: phase, amplitude
script for calibration: filled-in version
Data
Class data set
The calibrated data set that has been used in class as of 13 June 2018 is available on request. The uncalibrated data set is available on request as well.
Exam data set
This is the data set for homework, the milestones and the presentation/paper. Each participant taking this course for credit is required to work on this data set on his/her own.
Milestones
During the course, there will be three milestones that will help you to get your course work done in good time. If you take this course for credit, you are expected to hand in certain products of your data reduction by the due date of each milestone. The anticipated deadlines are 14 May, 18 June, 09 July.
Milestone 1 went online on May 02 and had a due date of May 14. Milestone 2 is online since June 04 and had a due date of June 18. Milestone 3 went online on June 25 with a due date of July 09.
In order to be admitted to the exam, you are required to complete the tasks set out in the instructions given below and to upload the deliverables to the specified ftp area before the deadline of each milestone.
Milestone 2 (with typo corrected)
Literature
Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II, ASP Conference Series, V. 180, 1998, Editors: Taylor, Carilli, Perley
Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy (Wiley 2001), by Thompson, Moran, Swenson
Tools of Radio Astronomy, Sixth Edition (Springer 2013), by Wilson, Rohlfs, Hüttemeister
CASA
The main source of material related to CASA is the CASA homepage.
To download and install CASA you should visit this page. In class, we will use CASA 4.7.2 and 5.1.1.
A pdf version of the CASA cookbook can be found here.