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Contributors: K. Blundell, M. Kadler, E. Koerding, C. Lang (chair), J. Miller-Jones, A. Richards, E. Ros Monday and Tuesday's hands-on sessions will be focused on full calibration of an archival VLA data set of the head-tail radio galaxy known as 3c129. We will be using the NRAOpackage AIPS. - AIPS can be installed on laptops easily: for more information see: http://www.aips.nrao.edu/#CURRENT_RELEASE - Students should install the 31DEC09 release as it has the most up to date patches/fixes and we would recommend that the students install AIPS via the binary file, to avoid problems with invalid C compilers. - The data can also be downloaded and should be put in the aips "FITS" area - the folder in your AIPS directory named "FITS". Data can be found at: http://casa.nrao.edu/Data/VLA/3C129/ In this tutorial, we plan to cover the data calibration. For this students will want to use the online calibration manual. See: http://www.vla.nrao.edu/astro/calib/manual/csource.html - data editing - data inspection and plotting - imaging and deconvolution **update** E. Ros's and M. Kadler's recipe for calibrating a VLBA dataset: ros_aips_commands_20090702.pdf The AIPS cookbook is particularly helpful for these topics. The entire cookbook can be found here: http://www.aips.nrao.edu/cook.html There are links to the html and pdf version as well as the entire cookbook. Good chapters to print out and bring include (1) Chapter 4 on calibration and (2) Appendix A: Easy Continuum uv-data Calibration and Editing. If there is time or for more advanced students, we may cover the following additional topics: - self-calibration - polarization calibration - imaging of polarized intensity - image analysis - spectral line data calibration |