VLA观测和Observe软件

VLA OBSERVATIONS AND OBSERVE PROGRAM

Observe是用于制订甚大阵 (theVeryLargeArray ,VLA)观测文件的软件。随着中国科学院创新工程的全面推进 ,利用VLA进行观测研究的中国天文学家逐渐增多 ,Observe软件的使用也日益广泛。简要介绍了Observe的主要功能和应用 ;并结合 2 0 0 0年 12月的观测文件 (AH72 1)的制订过程 ,给出了注意事项 。

Observe is a program for preparing VLA observing files. As the Knowledge Innovation project deeply proceeding, more and more chinese astronomer observe and study with the Very Large Array (VLA), Observe is widely used in China. So we briefly introduce the function and usage of Observe in this paper. Moreover, based on an example of preparing experiments AH721 in December 2000, some attention was also listed that is helpful to those VLA observers. The paper focuses on ways to prepare experiments of interferometric continuum observation.