richteague / interferometry-community-software

Curated list of interferometric software

Radio-Millimeter-Submillimeter (RMS) Interferometry-Community-Software

Curated list of interferometric software, methods and techniques

This list was developed during the 2024 Spatio-spectral Modeling for Interferometric Data Workshop (go.nrao.edu/ssmid)

Visibility Handling

• CASA
• casangi
• pyuvdata
• casa-formats-io

Imaging

• CASA - includes several algorithms in tclean (Max. Entropy; Adaptive Scale Pixel)
• casangi
• MPoL
• MrBeam
• LibRA
• wsclean
• [ADD HERE]

Analysis

• radio-astro-tools -- spectral-cube, radio-beam, pvextractor, casa-formats-io
• bettermoments -- moment map making
• eddy -- rotation map fitting (protoplanetary disks)
• gofish -- shift-and-stack analyses (protoplanetary disks)

Methods, Techniques, and Tutorials

• radio-astro-tools tutorials -- tutorials on using spectral-cube, fitting with spectral-cube, parallelization with dask, creating position-velocity diagrams, signal masking and moment map creation, cube reprojection
• Visread: Examining DSHARP AS 209 Weights and Exporting Visibilities -- uses CASA tools to examine the visibilities, visibility residuals, and weights of a real multi-configuration dataset from the DSHARP survey.
• auto_selfcal -- automated continuum self-calibration for ALMA and VLA data
• python packaging guide -- guide for making Python packages

Visualization

Contributing to this list

• git resources via astropy

• Pull request workflow overview

  1. Make your own fork of this repository:
  2. Add new entries to the list, either on your own machine (make a local clone), or directly on github by pressing the pencil on the upper-right of the README file:
  3. Commit your new entries to your forked repository:
  4. Create a new pull request (PR) from your fork to the main branch:
  5. After the PR is merged into the main repository, update your forked repository before adding new entries. Use the "Sync fork" button here: