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

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

3. 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

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

5. Select ALFA Receiver

6. Configure Frontend

7. Configure Backend

8. Pointing

9. Observe!

10. Help using CIMA www.naic.edu/~astro

11. CIMA step-by-step www.naic.edu/~astro

12. ALFA Online Data Display By Mikael Lerner

13. Versatile plot display control

14. Waterfall plots

15. Suppress menus

16. Select individual beams Color table selection

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

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

19. Dump plots Choose from Several formats

20. Header data in realtime

21. Position info in realtime

22. Setup info

23. Context sensitive Help

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

25. Big Dish FITS alfa.naic.edu/data

26. WapRed WAPP Reduction by Erik Muller

27. WapRed Quickstart Guide By Erik Muller

28. Interrim Correlator IDL Routines By Phil Perillat

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

30. 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