gildas-intro

A quick introduction to GILDAS
Last revised in October 2008
Questions? Comments? Bug reports? Mail to: gildas@iram.fr
The GILDAS team welcomes an acknowledgment in publications
using GILDAS software to reduce and/or analyze data.
Please use the following reference in your publications:
http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/GILDAS
Up-to-date information on credits and responsabilities
may be found on the GILDAS web page

Note: This is the on-line version of the Introduction to GILDAS. A PDF version is also available.

Related information are available in

- SIC: Command Line Interpretor
- GREG: Graphical Possibilities
- ASTRO: Ephemeris and observation preparation
- Calibration of the raw format (IMBFITS) and the writing of the CLASS data format of IRAM-30m spectra obtained in 2006 and after
- Processing of single-dish spectra
- Continuum and Line Interferometric Calibration
- Imaging and deconvolution of aperture synthesis data
- MIS: Millimeter Interferometry Simulation Tools
- Programming in GILDAS

- Contents
- Introduction
- Organisation
- Concepts and Useful Hints
  - Images
  - Customizing
    - Logical Names
    - File Names
    - Initialisation Files
- Getting Started
- The Data Format
  - Description
  - Drawbacks
- Communication with the Outer World
  - From CLASS
  - From a Program
  - From other Packages: the ACCEPT command
  - From and To other Packages: FITS
- Index
- About this document ...