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# Documentation and Help

NOEMA is a complex instrument. Previous knowledge of interferometry is necessary to use it correctly, and reading a standard textbook for this field is highly recommended (e.g., Thompson A.R., Moran J.M., and Swenson G.W., 2001 Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy. Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Eds.). Information specific to the IRAM Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) is available on the http://iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-96-7-56-96-0-0.html`NOEMA documentation web pages` and in the following documents:

- NOEMA http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS/doc/html/astro-html/astro.htmlASTRO Users Guide:
  ASTRO is a graphic program to help planning observations. It is particularly useful for complex observing programs such as series of snapshots on many sources or complex line setups
- NOEMA http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS/doc/html/pdbi-cookbook-html/pdbi-cookbook.html`Calibration Cookbook:`
  A guide to calibrating NOEMA data with CLIC
- NOEMA http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS/doc/html/clic-html/clic.html`CLIC Users Manual:`
  Detailed documentation of the off-line calibration program. It assumes the user has previous knowledge of interferometry
- NOEMA http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS/doc/html/map-html/map.html`Mapping Cookbook:`
  A guide to produce and analyze images from NOEMA with the GILDAS software
- http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS/doc/html/gildas-intro-html/gildas-intro.html`GILDAS Users Manual:`
  Documentation of the mapping and display software. GILDAS is an image processing system with many capabilities, and the documentation assumes the user has a basic knowledge of image processing

Although these manuals are updated relatively frequently, only the on-line help within the programs has the latest revisions.

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