Miriad is a radio interferometry data reduction package of particular interest to users of the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). It can be used for the reduction of continuum and spectral line observations from beginning to end, starting with the loading of the data (either FITS, the ATNF RPFITS or old BIMA formats) through to image synthesis, analysis and display with publication quality graphics.
In particular Miriad supports a number of niche areas including calibration and analysis of polarimetric data from the ATCA, multi-frequency synthesis imaging, mosaicing, ATCA pulsar bin mode, and specialized spectral line observations (e.g. Zeeman).
Citing Miriad
Please cite the following paper if you use Miriad in your work:
- "A retrospective view of Miriad", by Sault R.J., Teuben P.J., & Wright M.C.H., 1995. In Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. Shaw, H.E. Payne, J.J.E. Hayes, ASP Conference Series, 77, 433-436.
Miriad software and documentation are distributed under the GNU General Public License from the Miriad ftp area, ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/miriad/.
Send questions, comments, and bug reports concerning Miriad to miriad@atnf.csiro.au.
Software download
- GPL disclaimer for Miriad.
- Distribution, installation and update information on Miriad.
- Karma , the ATNF visualisation software package, recognises the Miriad data format and may be used to display and analyse images.
User documentation
- The Miriad User Guide in HTML format.
- PostScript versions of the User Guide are also available in A4 format and US letter format.
- Documentation on Individual tasks.
- Information on some ATCA data acquisition problems.
- Various data tutorials using Miriad.
Programmer documentation
- Miriad software development (compiling and linking)
- The Miriad Programmer Guide (coding) in HTML format.
- PostScript versions of the Programmer Guide are also available in A4 format and US letter format.
Related material
- Archives of the atnf-data-reduction mailing list.
- Archives of the miriad-devel mailing list.
- The BIMA, SMA and WSRT Miriad sites.
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