Contents

• General Information
  • Acknowledgements
• The User Interface
  • Host Command-Line Interface
  • The miriad Front-End
    • INP, GO and TASK
    • HELP
    • EXIT and QUIT
    • Command-Line Editing and ER
    • Interrupting a Task
    • UNSET
    • SAVE and LOAD
    • TPUT and TGET
  • MIRIAD on the World Wide Web
  • Bug Reports and Giving Feedback
  • Indirect Parameter Input
  • Writing Shell Scripts
• TV and Plotting Concepts
  • TV Devices
  • The Control Panel
  • Plot Devices
• MIRIAD Datasets
  • Datasets and Items
  • Scratch Files
  • MIRIAD Data Disks at Epping
• Visibility Data Concepts
  • MIRIAD Visibility File Format
  • MIRIAD 's Calibration Model
  • On-the-Fly Calibration Correction
  • Channel Selection, Averaging and Doppler Correction -- UV Linetypes
  • Selecting UV Data in MIRIAD
  • Spectral Window Selection
  • Selection and Multi-Source/Multi-Frequency Datasets
  • Polarization/Stokes Handling (stokes and select)
• Image Data Concepts
  • Image Datasets
  • Image Coordinate Systems
  • Image Region of Interest (region)
• Reduction Strategies
• Getting Data In and Out of MIRIAD
  • Reading RPFITS Files
  • FITS Tapes and MIRIAD
  • Reading Visibility FITS Files
    • Information Missing or Incorrect in FITS Files
    • AIPS Frequency Bugs
    • Time and FITS Files
  • Writing Visibility FITS Files
  • Reading and Writing FITS Images
  • Archiving and Transporting MIRIAD Datasets
• Manipulating, Examining and Flagging Visibility Data
  • Listing Visibilities
  • Copying, Concatenating and Averaging Visibility Datasets
  • Plotting Visibilities
  • Examining Visibility Variables
  • Flagging Visibilities
    • Interactive Channel/Baseline Flagging -- TVFLAG
    • General MIRIAD Flagging -- UVFLAG
    • AIPS Flagging and MIRIAD
    • Flagging Near a Set-Up Change -- QVACK
    • Flagging Based on a Template -- UVPFLAG and UVAFLAG
    • Flagging a Sector of Data -- UVSECTOR
  • Modifying Visibility Datasets
• Calibration, the ATCA, and MIRIAD
  • Some Theory
  • Calibration Methods
    • Calibration of Data with XX , YY , XY and YX
    • Calibration of Data with XX and YY Only
  • Determining Calibration Solutions
  • Determining Gains and Bandpass Functions -- MFCAL
  • Determining Gains and Polarimetric Properties -- GPCAL
  • Copying Calibration Tables -- GPCOPY
  • Displaying Calibration Tables -- GPPLT
  • Deleting Calibration Tables -- DELHD
• Calibration Strategies
  • Preparing your Data in MIRIAD
  • Calibration
  • The Interpolation Process
    • Interpolation/Extrapolation Tolerance
    • Averaging Antenna Gains with Time -- GPAVER
    • Preventing Gain Interpolation -- GPBREAK
  • Combining Pre- and Post-August 1994 Data
• Imaging
  • Continuum Imaging Considerations
  • Spectral Line Imaging Considerations
  • Weighting
  • Computation
• Image Deconvolution
  • Deconvolution with CLEAN
    • The Högbom CLEAN
    • The Clark CLEAN
    • The SDI CLEAN
    • Region-of-Interest Considerations
    • The Cotton-Schwab CLEAN
    • CLEAN Stripes
    • Computation
  • Deconvolution with maximum entropy algorithms
    • Theory
    • Computation
  • Multi-frequency deconvolution -- MFCLEAN
  • Restoring an Image
• Self-Calibration
  • General
  • Computation
    • Apply Your Original Calibration Before Self-Calibrating
    • Self-Calibrating with Multiple Models
    • Polarisation Handling
    • Frequency Handling
      • Multi-Plane Models
      • Multi-Frequency Models
    • Input Parameters to the Self-Calibration Tasks
    • Summary
• Spectral Line Data Reduction
  • Velocities in MIRIAD
  • Spectral Line Processing and RPFITS files
  • Spectral Line Processing and FITS files
  • Listing and Plotting Velocity Information
  • Recomputing Velocity Information
  • Setting the Rest Frequency
  • Velocity Linetype
  • Continuum Subtraction
    • Computation
  • Imaging and Image Velocity Definitions -- INVERT and VELSW
• Displaying Images
  • TV Device Tasks
  • PGPLOT Device Tasks
    • General
    • Common Keywords
    • Examples
• Image Analysis
  • Image Statistics and Histograms
  • Listing Image Values
  • Source Fitting and Positions
  • Copying, Reordering and Regridding Images
  • Image Arithmetic -- MATHS
  • Smoothing Images
  • Modifying Images by Models
  • Polarimetric Analysis Tasks
  • Spectral Index and Rotation Measure from MFS Images
  • Miscellaneous Analysis Tasks
• Displaying Spectral Cubes
  • Displaying spectra only
  • Overlaying spectra on images
  • Movies and Projecting Cubes -- VIEWS
  • The ATNF Visualisation Software
• Analysing Spectral Cubes
  • Moment Analysis
  • Smoothing the Velocity Axis
  • Velplot
  • Modelling galactic disks
    • Fitting a rotation curve
    • Fitting a tilted ring model to a warped galactic disk
  • Zeeman Analysis
• Primary Beams and Mosaicing
  • Primary Beams and Primary Beam Correction
  • Mosaicing
  • Mosaicing Observing Strategies
  • Visibility Processing
  • Summary of Imaging Strategies
  • The Joint Approach
    • Theory
    • Imaging -- INVERT
    • Deconvolution and Restoration
    • Self-Calibration
    • Some Additional Tools
  • The Individual Approach
    • Splitting and Imaging
    • Deconvolution, Restoration and Self-Calibration
    • Image Combination
• Generating Dummy Visibility Data
• Multi-Frequency Synthesis Observing Strategies
  • Multi-Frequency Synthesis Data Reduction
  • ATCA Multi-Frequency Observing Strategies -- MFPLAN
• Setting Up Your Account
• Image Items
• UV Variables
• Preparing Your Data in AIPS