Contents

• Contents
• Project Calibration in 10 Steps
• Introduction
• Principles
  • Standard Decomposition of Visibilities
  • Baseline versus Antenna based calibration
  • Sideband Separation
  • Plateau de Bure Real-time Calibration
  • The Rules of the Game
• Starting
  • Optical Disks
  • Getting Started
  • Finding and Gathering Data
• A First Look at the Data
  • Identifying the Observations: Who is Who ?
  • Some Intrumental Effects
• Calibrating: Basic Steps
  • Radio Frequency Passband
  • Phase Calibration
  • Amplitude
  • Antenna Gain and Flux Scale
• Calibrating: Strategies
  • DSB versus Separate Sideband Calibration
  • EXTERNAL versus INTERNAL phase calibration
  • Antenna Based Calibration
• Editing
  • What is Editing ?
  • Flagging and Tagging
• Calibration: The Automatic Package
  • First look
  • Calibration
  • Flux density calibration
  • Some Checks
• Dirty tricks: Back to Real-time
  • Baselines
  • Atmospheric calibration
• Appendix
  • Old Projects: Loading and Gathering Data