Chimenea and other tools: Automated imaging of multi-epoch radio-synthesis data with CASA

Understand

In preparing the way for the Square Kilometre Array and its pathfinders, there is a pressing need to begin probing the transient sky in a fully robotic fashion using the current generation of radio telescopes.

• Effective exploitation of such surveys requires a largely automated data-reduction process.
• This paper introduces an end-to-end automated reduction pipeline, AMIsurvey, used for calibrating and imaging data from the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array.
• AMIsurvey makes use of several component libraries which have been packaged separately for open-source release.