Manuals at IRAM Spain

 

Miscellaneous Manuals

30m Manual from 1999 (v2)
HERA Manual v. 2.0  and a technical Paper  "A 230 GHz HEterodyn Receiver Array for the IRAM 30m telescope"
Preliminary version of VESPA documentation (still with OBS commands)
A short guide to observations with the MPIfR Bolometers (.ps, 140 kb)
The time estimator manual

paKO The observer's User Interface to the New Control System (pdf)

MIRA Raw data processing with the New Control system (pdf)

At the 30-m Telescope the spectroscopic data are reduced with the GILDAS Software Package.

SIC is a command line interpretor with mathematical possibilities and direct access to internal and FITS data formats; SIC also includes a built-in GUI (Graphical User Interface) constructor; (pdf)
GREG an all-purpose 1-D, 2-D and almost 3-D graphical program. GREG has many facilities for astronomical data manipulation and analysis; (pdf)
ASTRO dedicated to ephemeris and observation preparation; (pdf)
TELCAL a library dedicated to the calibration of the telescope (pointing, focus, gain, ...); (pdf)
CLASS dedicated to the processing of single–dish spectra; (pdf)

MOPSIC, is the bolometer mapping software

Astronomical Reports

Calibration procedures and efficiencies (PS))
Calculation of sky frequencies (PS)
Frequency switching at the 30m telescope (PS)
A fast mapping method for bolometer array observations with the IRAM 30m telescope (PS) Secondary calibrators for continuum measurements in the 1.3mm window at the IRAM 30m telescope (PS)