IRAM Science Software User Meeting 2016

Speakers and Topics

Wednesday April, 6th

General 

• Scope and overview J.Pety (IRAM)
• ASTRO: Presparing your observations J.Boissier (IRAM)
• Proposal/Observatory Management System E.Reynier (IRAM)
• Evolution of the GILDAS data formats (GDF,CLASSIC) S.Bardeau (IRAM)
   

30m 

• MRTCAL: Spectrometer calibration J.Pety and/or S.Bardeau (IRAM)
• CLASS: Spectrometer data reduction S.Bardeau and/or J.Pety (IRAM)
• WEEDS: CLASS interface to the line databases S.Maret (IPAG)
• Importing Herschel spectra into CLASS D.Teyssier (ESAC)

NOEMA

• OBS A.Castro-Carrizo (IRAM)
• CLIC/RDI: Calibration engines V.Piétu (IRAM)
• Calibration pipelines A.Castro-Carrizo (IRAM)
• MAPPING: Wideband deconvolution and self-calibration S.Guilloteau (LAB)

A few Gildas power users

• Heidelberg TBC
• Koln TBC
• Munich TBC
• Paris L.Pagani (Obs. de Paris/LERMA)
• Madrid J. Alcolea  (OAN) : "Other (non-standard) uses of GILDAS"
• Madrid CSIC (MAPPING and ALMA) G.Quitana-Lacaci (CSIC)

Apr. 7th and 8th: Detailed tutorials

SIC/GREG

• Mathematics
• Scripting
• Dealing with 1D data (curves/histograms/scatter plots)
• Dealing with 2D data (channel maps / position velocity)
• Importing ALMA position-position-frequency cubes
• Fitting models and bayesian approaches

ASTRO

• Interacting with the ATM atmospheric modelisation
• Source and planets ephemerides
• Frequency setups

MRTCAL

• Interacting with a set of IMBFITS files
  
• Calibration pipeline
  
• Tweaking the automatic calibration

CLASS

• Generalities
  
• Reducing line surveys
  
• Reducing wide-field imaging
  
• Line fitting

MAPPING

• Importing ALMA visibilities
  
• Pratical phase self-calibration
  
• Merging SD and interferometric data