[daip] Seeking Description of AIPS

[Eric Greisen]

William Gardner wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
>  
> 
> Can you direct me to a description of the AIPS system—some sort of 
> functional diagram that shows how the outputs of individual correlators 
> are combined to form a final image?
> 
>  
> 
> //William A. Gardner// (Bill)
> 
> Professor Emeritus, UCD
> 
> President & Chief Scientist
> 
> **Statistical Signal Processing, Inc. (SSPI)**
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> /Voice:/  707-226-9933, Ext. 102   /Fax:/  707-226-8877
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> Bill’s website: www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~gardner 
> <http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~gardner>
>

You will find the aips web site at

     http://www.aoc.nrao.edu

The top page offers a What is AIPS click to a short page with a 
reference to a 1994 paper.  The aips cookbook Chapter 1 is a similar 
basic text that is more current - the CookBook table of contents may be 
reached from the above page and that will provide the chapters as 
separate ps or pdf files.  The help file for IMAGR which may also be 
reached from the web page on documentation has a lengthy EXPLAIN file 
which may answer some of your questions.

Your question sounds in many ways more basic that the details of the 
software.  The primary reference is "Synthesis Imaging in Radio 
Astronomy II", ed. Taylor, Carilli, & Perley, Astronomical Society of 
the Pacific Conference Series, volume 180 published initially in 1999.

Eric Greisen