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ALMA Data Handling Workshop

9-12 February 2016 – Area della Ricerca Bologna, Italy

The Italian node of the European ALMA Regional Center is pleased to announce a 4-day ALMA data analysis workshop, with the aim to assist users in learning how to (re)process ALMA data, from raw data to the production of calibrated images and data analysis.

The program will include lectures introducing the key concepts in the calibration and imaging of interferometric data and hands-on sessions that will demonstrate their application in the Common Astronomy Software Applications (CASA) package.

Participants will be requested to work on their own laptops. Details on CASA versions and data downloads will be communicated later to the registered participants.

The workshop is open to researchers, post-docs and students interested in working with ALMA data, either their own or taken from the archive. Novice users are welcome!

Accessing the ARC cluster

  • The folders used for the school will be available up to Feb 29th. To access the ARC cluster do ssh -X almauserN@scheduler.ira.inaf.it . To work remotely on the school datasets (in scuola/) we suggest creating two individual folders and copying all the files you need into them.
  • If you want to copy files from the cluster to your own machine, you need to type: scp almauserN@storage.alma.inaf.it:scuola/nomefile .
  • If you want to use the ARC cluster to work on your ALMA data please contact help-desk@alma.inaf.it and visit: http://www.alma.inaf.it/index.php/The_ARC_cluster for instructions.
  • To fix the CASA viewer problem in the spectral line panel, Linux users can copy this file into their .config/NRAO/CASA/Spectral Profiler.conf file.

Instructions for the hands-on sessions

During the hands-on sessions, we will try to use the hardware and software facilities available at the ARC node. However, we request the participants to:

  • bring their own laptop to access via ssh to the ARC cluster (linux or mac)
  • download from the website https://launchpad.net/apsynsim/trunk/1.2b the file for the software APSYNSIM 1.2b in the version suited for your own operative system and verify that it is working properly
  • download the latest version of CASA (4.5.0) from the website http://casa.nrao.edu/casa_obtaining.shtml install it on the laptop and verify that it is working properly. Older versions of CASA might not be suitable for the data that we will be using and will be slower than the last one, so please upgrade to this version if you have already a CASA version installed. Notice that it will be necessary only as a backup in case of malfunctioning of the ARC cluster or of the web links. You will soon receive further instructions on the download of the data that will be used as a backup.

Please contact us for any problem.

Program

09 Feb 2016 Speaker Title
14:00 14:15 J. Brand Welcome
14:15 15:30 A. Mignano Introduction to Interferometry
15:30 16:45 M. Massardi ALMA
16:45 – 17:00 Coffee break ———— ————
17:00 17:15 Hands-on: Sensitivity Calculator
17:15 18:00 Hands-on: UV plane visualization
Material additional models

 

10 Feb 2016 Speaker Title
09:30 – 10:00 K. Ryg CASA introduction
10:00 – 10:45 M. Massardi Alma archive and data tree
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break ———— ————
11:15 – 12:00 Hands on exploring the archive
12:00 – 13:00 A. Mignano Calibration- Introduction
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch ———— ————
14:00 – 15:30 A. Mignano Hands-on: Checking the calibration results with plotms
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break ———— ————
16:00 – 18:00 Hands-on: QA2 report/weblog
Material (1) tiny dataset; (2)qa manual; (3) weblog

 

11 Feb 2016 Speaker Title
9:30 – 10:30 Imaging – Introduction
10:30 – 11:30 Hands-on: Imaging (I)
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break ———— ————
12:00 13:00 Hands-on: Imaging (II)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch ———— ————
14:00 15:30 Hands-on: Data products analysis I (Analysis script )
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break ———— ————
16:00 – 18:00 Hands-on: Data products analysis II

 

12 Feb 2016 Speaker Title
09:30 – 10:00 E. Liuzzo & R. Paladino Self calibration
10:00 – 11:00 A. Mignano Hands-on: self calibration (I)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break ———— ————
11:30 – 12:30 Hands-on: self calibration (II)

The trainers will be Nuria Marcelino, Marcella Massardi, Arturo Mignano, Rosita Paladino, and Kazi Rygl, members of the Italian Node of the ALMA Regional Centre.

Registration

Registration has closed on December 15th, 2015.

No fee is required. For logistical reasons, a maximum of 40 participants can be accepted, on a “first come first serve” basis.

We have reached the maximum number of participants, and have a short waiting list. If any of the registered participants cannot be present, they are kindly requested to inform the organizers as soon as possible, so that their place can be taken by someone else.

Participants

  1. Alvarez Crespo Nuria (Uni TO)
  2. Balmaverde Barbara (OABO)
  3. Bianchi Eleonora (Arcetri)
  4. Bischetti Manuela (OAR)
  5. Brusa Marcella (DIFA BO)
  6. Calabrese Camilla (Ciamician BO)
  7. Comaschi Paolo (SNS Pisa)
  8. Conforti Vito (IASF BO)
  9. Costagliola Francesco (ORA, Onsala)
  10. Dipierro Giovanni (Uni MI)
  11. Dore Luca (Ciamician BO)
  12. Enia Andrea (Uni PD)
  13. Gallerani Simona (SNS Pisa)
  14. Galluzzi Vincenzo (ORA, Uni BO)
  15. Gilli Roberto (OAB)
  16. Ginolfi Michele (OAR, UniCam)
  17. Gitti Myriam (DIFA BO, ORA)
  18. Grandi Paola (IASF BO)
  19. Guarcello Mario Giuseppe (Oss PD)
  20. Guaita Lucia (OAR)
  21. Magliocchetti Manuela (IAPS)
  22. Manti Serena (SNS Pisa)
  23. Maris Assimo (Ciamician BO)
  24. Maris Michele (Oss TS)
  25. Mason Elena (OATS)
  26. Massaro Francesco (Uni TO)
  27. Mignani Roberto (IASF MI)
  28. Orofino Maria Carmela (SNS Pisa)
  29. Padovani Marco (Montpellier)
  30. Pozzi Francesca (DIFA BO)
  31. Santini Paola (OAR)
  32. Stagni Matteo (ORA)
  33. Talia Margherita (DIFA BO)
  34. Torresi Eleonora (IASF BO)
  35. Venturi Tiziana (ORA)
  36. Vietri Giustina (OAR)
  37. Vignali Cristian (DIFA BO)
  38. Zuccarello Francesca (Uni CT)

Venue, Logistics & contacts

The workshop will take place in the CNR Research Area in Bologna, room 216 (main hall, first floor).

The Institute of Radioastronomy is located in the CNR Research Area in Bologna. It can be reached by following the directions given here.
A selection of hotels in Bologna can be found in this list.

If you have questions, please contact the Italian ARC: almadata2016@ira.inaf.it