AIPS++ GUI-oriented Cookbook - April 1, 1999 Draft

Data Editing

Flagging data based on differences between imager model and data

Data Management

Using the Catalog Tool
Data organization on disk
Viewing content summaries for Tables, Images, MeasurementSets, and other data files
Rename, delete, etc., images, MeasurementSets, and other data files

Data Plotting

Using PGPlotter Tool
Plotting Data from Arrays with Pgplotter from Glish CLI (needs re-testing)

Image Analysis

Using the ImageFitter Tool

Image Computation

Make deconvolved aperture synthesis images with CLEAN or NNLS
Make aperture synthesis dirty images and point spread functions
Make mask images specifying regions to be deconvolved
Apply primary beam correction to images
Spectral line aperture synthesis
Multi-frequency synthesis imaging

Image Display and Utilities

Using Viewer Tool
Using AipsView
Making contour image displays with AipsView
Evaluating statistics of a region in an image with AipsView
Print hardcopy of images or save as postscript files

Running AIPS++ and Its Glish Command Line Interface

Getting started
Using the Tool Manager
Using the Glish Command Line Interface
Utilizing the Logger display
Script Preparation and Use in Glish
Making External Programs Glish Servers
Array (including Matrix) Data Manipulation
Matrix Operations, Least Squares Fitting with Error Analysis (needs re-testing)
Creating and accessing Tables
Browsing Tables
Manipulating Data in Tables
Processing of ASCII Data Tables and AIPS++ Tables (needs re-testing)

Single Dish Data Processing

Using the Dish Tool
Pulsar Data Processing with Glish commands

Visibility Data Processing

Make a MeasurementSet (MS) from a u-v FITS data file using ms tool
Export AIPS u-v data files to FITS files on disk for processing in AIPS++
Make a MeasurementSet from a u-v FITS file from Glish
Examining u-v data
Calibration of continuum visibility data
Self-calibrate MeasurementSet
Converting MeasurementSets to FITS format files

E-mail comments during the prototyping phase of this Cookbook to Bob Hjellming.