2014/07/18 by D. Petry, Dirk Petry, Baltasar Vila-Vilaro +4 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques #Business #Computer science #Database #Marketing #Quality assurance #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Service (business) #Telecommunications #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.1117/12.2054715
published as in Chiozzi, G. & Radziwill, N.M (eds.), Proc (2014) · About to be published in the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Proceedings of the conference "Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III", June 2014, Montreal, Canada, Paper ID 9152-17
openalex publication_date 2014/07/18 · arxiv created 2014/07/26 · arxiv updated 2020/12/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The Atacama Large mm and sub-mm Array (ALMA) radio observatory is one of the world’s largest astronomical projects. After the very successful conclusion of the first observation cycles Early Science Cycles 0 and 1, the ALMA project can report many successes and lessons learned. The science data taken interleaved with commis- sioning tests for the still continuing addition of new capabilities has already resulted in numerous publications in high-profile journals. The increasing data volume and complexity are challenging but under control. The radio-astronomical data analysis package ”Common Astronomy Software Applications” (CASA) has played a crucial role in this effort. This article describes the implementation of the ALMA data quality assurance system, in particular the level 2 which is based on CASA, and the lessons learned.