Contents

• Introduction
  • Users Guides
    • Miriad Users Guide
    • SMA Users Guide
    • CARMA cookbook
  • Future
  • STYLE
  • Links
  • Revision History
  
  
• A Simple Example
  • CARMA Continuum data
    • CARMA test data and shell scripts
  • A little more on MIRIAD
  
  
• Description of necessary steps
• Common problems: how to spot them and what to do about it
• Example scripts
• Work Flow
  • CARMA Data Retrieval
    • Not at CARMA
    • At CARMA
  • Organizing your CARMA Data Tree
  • Quality Check
  • Data Inspection
    • listobs
    • uvindex
    • uvlist
    • uvflag - initial check of flagged data
    • Visual: uvplt, uvspec, varplt, uvimage, closure
  • Initial Data Correction
    • Archive based corrections
    • Baseline correction
    • Rest Frequency (bugzilla 409)
    • Linelength Correction
    • Other UV variables
    • Data Flagging and Editing
    • Flagging Birdies and End Channels
    • Flagging using tvflag
    • Flagging based system temperatures
    • Flagging based on tracking errors
  • Calibration
    • Passband Calibration
    • Simple single calibrator
    • Autocorrelation
    • Noise Source Passband Calibration
    • Phase Transfer
    • Absolute Flux Calibration
    • Absolute Flux Calibration: MARS
  • Mapping and Deconvolution
    • Mosaicing
  • Tips and Tricks
  
  
• Recipes
  • Calibration
    • Calibration-1
    • Calibration-2
    • Calibration-3
    • gmake/gfiddle
  • Bandpass calibration
  • Flux Calibration
    • Bootstrap Flux Calibration
  • Mosaiced Mapping and Deconvolution
  • Simple Reduction
    • Simple Reduction - I
    • Simple Reduction - II
    • Hybrid Mode Calibration - III
    • Calibration - IV
  
  
• Future
• Installing Miriad
  • Setting up your account
  • Site dependent setup
    • OVRO
    • Berkeley
    • Caltech
    • Illinois
    • Maryland
  • Installation
    • Source Installation
    • Binary Installation
    • Keeping your version up to date
  
  
• Miriad cheatsheet
  • Reminders
  • Miriad DATASETS
    • Visibility data
    • Image data
  • Common Miriad Keywords
    • device=
    • select=
    • line=
    • region=
    • options=
    • vis=, in=
  • Gridding time/frequency/Keeping track of time in MIRIAD
    • time: uvgen, CARMA, uvaver
    • frequency: uvaver
    • position: invert
  • Programming in MIRIAD
    • Old-style build
    • New-Style build
  
  
• Scripting
  • Interactive shells
  • Programmable shells
  • Example: mosaic.py
  
  
• UV Variables
  • UV Dataset
  • Telescope specific notes
    • ATCA
    • CARMA
    • SZA
    • SMA
    • BIMA/Hat Creek
  • Examples
  
  
• CARMA Data
  • Oddities
  • Data Versions
  • version
  • Historic Data Correction
    • Axis offset correction
    • jyperk (bugzilla 339)
    • Flagging based on tracking errors (bugzilla 376)
    • Incorrect source name in miriad file (bugzilla 564)
    • Amplitude Decorrelation
    • Baseline Correction
  
  
• Index

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