radio_submm_astrophy.md

Radio and Sub-millimeter Astronomy

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• casacore - Suite of C++ libraries for radio astronomy data processing

  • The casacore package contains the core libraries of the old AIPS++/CASA package. This split was made to get a better separation of core libraries and applications. CASA is now built on top of Casacore.
  • python-casacore: Python bindings for casacore, a library used in radio astronomy. Document can be found here

• CASA Tools - Tools developed by the nodes of the European ARC network

  • Several small and nice tools for ALMA data reduction developed by the ALMA EU nodes

• CasaExtensions- Todd's CASA extensions

  • The analysisUtils python package provides numerous analysis utilities written in python that are useful for ALMA (and in many cases VLA) data reduction.
  • Small functions easy to use. Some of the functions are accomplished by CASA.

• radio-astro-tools

  • Nice tools for interferometry data reduction.

• pyuvdata - A pythonic interface for radio astronomy interferometry data (uvfits, miriad, others)

  • pyuvdata defines a pythonic interface to interferometric data sets. Currently pyuvdata supports reading and writing of miriad, uvfits, and uvh5 files and reading of CASA measurement sets and FHD (Fast Holographic Deconvolution) visibility save files.
  • Online document is here

• pyuvsim - A comprehensive simulation package for radio interferometers in python

  • A number of analysis tools are available to simulate the output of a radio interferometer (CASA, OSKAR, FHD, PRISim, et al), however each makes numerical approximations to enable speed ups.

• wise - Wavelet Image Segmentation and Evaluation tool

  • wise is developed to address the issue of detecting significant features in radio interferometric images and obtaining reliable velocity field from cross-correlation of these regions in multi-epoch observations.
  • Detection of structural information is performed using the segmented wavelet decomposition (SWD) method.

• GaussPy - A Python tool for implementing Autonomous Gaussian Decomposition

  • Based on the work of Autonomous Gaussian Decomposition

• gausspyplus - Fully automated Gaussian decomposition package for emission line spectra

  • GaussPy+ is based on GaussPy: A python tool for implementing the Autonomous Gaussian Decomposition algorithm.

• Scintillometry - A Package for Radio Baseband Data Reduction

  • Scintillometry is a package for reduction and analysis of radio baseband data, optimized for pulsar scintillometry science. Online document is here

• SoFiA - The HI Source Finding Application

  • SoFiA, the Source Finding Application, is a new HI source finding pipeline intended to find and parametrise galaxies in HI data cubes.
  • The version 2 which is reimplemented in C can be found here

• galario - Gpu Accelerated Library for Analysing Radio Interferometer Observations

  • galario is a library that exploits the computing power of modern graphic cards (GPUs) to accelerate the comparison of model predictions to radio interferometer observations.