ALMA Winter School in Prague
February 28, 2012
08:30 Registration
09:00 – 09:25 ALMA and Czech ARC node (M. Karlický, Czech ARC)
09:25 – 10:15 Introduction to radio interferometry (D. Kunneriath, Czech ARC)
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:00 Introduction to CASA, part I (D. Petry, ESO ARC)
Presentations:
The CASA software package
A brief introduction to the Measurement Set and the ALMA Science Data Model
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Introduction to Observing Tool (A. Biggs, ESO ARC)
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 16:00 Molecular spectroscopy (Š. Urban, Czech ARC)
16:00 – 17:30 Observing Tool: practical exercises (A. Biggs, ESO ARC and M. Bárta, B. Dabrowski, P. Jáchym, all from Czech ARC)
February 29, 2012
09:00 – 09:30 Examples of proposals: science and submission process (P. Jáchym, Czech ARC)
09:30 – 10:00 Solar research with ALMA (M. Bárta, Czech ARC)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Introduction to CASA, part II – calibration and imagining with CASA (D. Petry, ESO ARC)
Presentations:
Data calibration
Basic imaging
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 CASA: practical exercises (D. Petry, ESO ARC)
Script: reduce-m100-with-problems-light.py
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15 CASA: continuation (D. Petry, ESO ARC)
16:15 – 16:30 Discussion and closing
Address:
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