This appendix contains a step-by-step guide to calibrating simple continuum data from interferometers using
. This older guide is now preceded with information about a new “pipeline” of
procedures which can
automagically calibrate, image, and even self-calibrate many multi-source continuum (and line) data sets.
Although this pipeline is unlikely to produce immediately publishable results in most cases, it does
produce a data set with preliminary calibration and editing which can then be edited further “by hand.”
Following the additional editing, the pipeline may be re-run to produce improved images. When good
single-source data sets are produced, self-calibration can also be performed using the methods described in
§5.4.