Contents

• Warning
• Basic concepts
  • Overview of the data reduction and analysis
  • The structure of the MAPPING program
    • Structure and recommendations
    • A bit of history
  • Cookbook for the impatient ones
    • Imaging and deconvolution pipeline
    • Finely tuned imaging and deconvolution
    • Noise estimation and plotting
  
  
• Interacting with $uv$ tables
  • Structure
    • $uv$ table
    • $uv$ header
  • Interacting with $uv$ table
    • Basics
    • Advanced
  • Visualization (GO UVALL and GO UVCOV)
  • Flagging (UV_FLAG, RUN UV_MFLAG, RUN UV_CLIP)
  • Fitting (GO UVFIT and GO PLOTFIT)
    • General considerations
    • Implementation
    • Practical advices
  • The widget Operations on uv tables
  
  
• Single-field imaging and deconvolution
  • Measurement equation and other definitions
  • Imaging
    • Image size, pixel size, robust weighting and tapering
    • Implementation (READ UV, UV_MAP and UV_STAT)
    • Typical imaging session
  • Deconvolution
    • Philosophy
    • The family of CLEAN algorithms (HOGBOM, CLARK, MX, SDI, MRC, MULTI)
    • The other families of deconvolution algorithms (MEM and WIPE)
    • Implementation and typical use
    • Comparison and practical advices
  
  
• Wide-field imaging and deconvolution
  • General considerations about wide-field imaging
  • Mosaicing
    • Observations and processing
    • Imaging (UV_MAP and RUN MAKE_MOSAIC)
    • Deconvolution (MOSAIC, HOGBOM, CLARK and SDI)
    • Implementation and typical use
  • Short spacings (RUN UV_SHORT and RUN UV_ZERO)
    • Algorithms to merge single-dish and interferometer information
    • Practical considerations
  
  
• In and out MAPPING
  • UVFITS
  • FITS
  
  
• Internal Helps
  • CLEAN Language Internal Help
  • Description of Associated Tasks
    • mapping
    • CLEAN
    • MX
    • PRIMARY
    • MAKE_PRIMARY
    • MAKE_MOSAIC
    • UV_AVERAGE
    • UV_CAL
    • UV_CENTER
    • UV_CHECK
    • UV_CHECKBEAM
    • UV_CIRCLE
    • UV_CLIP
    • UV_COMPRESS
    • UV_CTIME
    • UV_CUTS
    • UV_DFT
    • UV_EXTRACT
    • UV_FIT
    • UV_FITC
    • UV_FIT
    • UV_FLAG
    • UV_GAIN
    • UV_HANNING
    • UV_INVERT
    • UV_LINE2CONT
    • UV_LIST
    • UV_MAP
    • UV_MERGE
    • UV_MFLAG
    • UV_MULT
    • UV_NOISE
    • UV_PROPER_MOTION
    • UV_REF_GAUSS
    • UV_REF_MODEL
    • UV_REF_POINT
    • UV_RESAMPLE
    • UV_ROBUST
    • UV_SHIFT
    • UV_SHORT
    • UV_SORT
    • UV_SPLITPOLAR
    • UV_STAT
    • UV_SUBTRACT
    • UV_TEMPLATE
    • UV_TRIM
    • UV_ZERO
    • UV_CONTINUUM
    • UV_CASA
  
  
• Properties of the Fourier Transform
• Bibliography
• Index