Welcome to Casa Cube’s documentation!

Casa Cube is a Python package for handling and analyzing radio interferometry data cubes, particularly focused on ALMA data. It provides tools for visualization, analysis, and manipulation of spectral line data cubes.

Contents:

• Installation Guide
  • Requirements
  • Installing Casa Cube
  • Verifying the Installation
  • Troubleshooting
• Usage Guide
  • Basic Usage
  • Working with Channel Maps
  • Calculating Moments
  • Working with Line Profiles
  • High-Pass Filtering
  • Unit Conversions
  • Working with Beams
  • Working with scattered light images
  • Plotting with RA and Dec on axes instead of relative offsets from image centre
  • Advanced Features
• API Reference
  • Cube
  • Constants
  • Utility Functions
• Examples
  • Basic Analysis of a CO Cube
  • Channel Map Analysis
  • High-Pass Filtering
  • Advanced Analysis

Installation

You can install Casa Cube using pip:

pip install casa-cube

For development installation:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/casa-cube.git
cd casa-cube
pip install -e .

Features

• Read and write FITS data cubes

• Plot channel maps and moment maps

• Calculate various moments (M0, M1, M2, M8, M9)

• Convert between different units (Jy/beam, K)

• Handle beam information

• Support for various coordinate systems

• High-pass filtering capabilities

• Line profile analysis

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page