ALFA Software at NAIC Steve Torchinsky GALFA Meet3, Arecibo August 29, 2004

ALFA Software at NAIC August 28, 2004 NAIC Software philosophy Datataking and Operation Software Quicklook software Offline data reduction software

NAIC Software Philosophy for ALFA Spectral line data is written in a standard file format ALFA consortia are producing software for data reduction Arecibo staff help with data reduction software as part of their membership in ALFA consortia NAIC provides datataking and online data display software

CIMA ALFA observing is done through the Control Interface Module for Arecibo Maintained by Jeff Hagen

Select ALFA Receiver

Configure Frontend

Configure Backend

Pointing

Observe!

Help using CIMA

CIMA step-by-step

ALFA Online Data Display By Mikael Lerner

Versatile plot display control

Waterfall plots

Suppress menus

Select individual beams Color table selection

Multiple data on a single plot Both polarizations on a single plot

Mix and Match Select beams, data, plot type, colors

Dump plots Choose from Several formats

Header data in realtime

Position info in realtime

Setup info

Context sensitive Help

Engineering Monitor By Mikael Lerner /home/aoui/alfa/alfaobswin

Big Dish FITS alfa.naic.edu/data

WapRed WAPP Reduction by Erik Muller

WapRed Quickstart Guide By Erik Muller

Interrim Correlator IDL Routines By Phil Perillat

IC/WAPP IDL Routines Additional routines for WAPP Spectral Line reduction, including some ALFA specific routines by Phil Perillat

NAIC Software Philosophy for ALFA Spectral line data is written in a standard file format ALFA consortia are producing software for data reduction Arecibo staff help with data reduction software as part of their membership in ALFA consortia NAIC provides datataking and online data display software