Spectral Line Radio Interferometry

• Why do spectral line (multi-channel) observations?
  • Brief outline of the science drivers
• Types of spectral line observations
  • All future interferometry data will be spectral line data
• Planning & observations
  • What do we need to consider
  • Proposals & plannings
  • Different spectral lines
  • Velocity conventions (inc doppler tracking)
  • Line experiment set-ups
  • Identifing potential problems (& planning solutions)
  • Resolution & brigtness sensitivity
• Data Analysis (specific to spectral line observations)
  • Spectral bandpass calibration (theory & practice)
  • Identification of RFI
  • Gibbs Ringing
  • Continuum subtratction techniques
  • Deconvolution of spectral line data
  • Anaylsis of line data (cubes)
    • extracting spectra, moment analysis etc