AIPS
Introduction
The NRAO Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS) is a software
package for interactive (and, optionally, batch) calibration and
editing of radio interferometric data and for the calibration,
construction, display and analysis of astronomical images made from
those data using Fourier synthesis methods. Design and development of
the package began in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1978. It presently
consists of over 5400 files containing 2.04 million lines of
text. These comprise over 584,000 lines of documentation and on-line
help in over 1900 files, and 1.56 million lines of text in over 5400
Fortran, C, and shell source files. It contains over 530 distinct
applications "tasks," representing well over 100 person-years of
effort since 1978.
See the FAQ.
Documentation
See here and the Banana Book.
Initialisation
AIPS must be installed on each machine before using it, please ask the
system manager to do this, if it is not already done.
The following machines have AIPS installed (there may be others):
- mensa.star.bris.ac.uk
- perseus.star.bris.ac.uk
- calgary.phy.bris.ac.uk
Version
We are now using the 31Dec20 version.
Testing
aips notv tpok
print 2 + 2
Usage
See the Banana Book
Author, References and Acknowledgements
Not sure what to put here! I can't find the AIPS attribution line in a
quick search.
Related Software
There is CASA.
Rhys Morris
Last modified: Tuesday, 13 February 2018