CASA and adjacent astronomy software

CASA and related radio-astronomy tools are supplied through selected Container Images. Availability and version-specific behavior belong to the image you choose; check canfar image ls and the image documentation before writing a workflow that depends on a package.

Choose and inspect an image

canfar image ls --kind desktop
canfar create desktop IMAGE_NAME --name casa-work

Inside the running Session, check the installed CASA version and invoke the command documented for that release. Keep the reduction script and measurement sets under /arc or copy them from /scratch before the Session ends.

For package-specific usage, use the upstream documentation:

• CASA documentation
• Astropy
• Astroquery
• Analysis Utilities
• UVMultiFit
• Galario
• Starlink

If an application is missing or behaves differently from its upstream documentation, record the Container Image name and version, the Session Kind, the command, and the error before contacting CANFAR support.

For an end-to-end ALMA example, see the ALMA analysis workflow.