\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1}Project Calibration in 10 Steps}{3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2}Introduction}{4}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3}Principles}{4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.1}Standard Decomposition of Visibilities}{4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.2}Baseline versus Antenna based calibration}{6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.3}Sideband Separation}{7}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.4}Plateau de Bure Real-time Calibration}{7}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.5}The Rules of the Game}{8}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4}Starting}{8}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1}Optical Disks}{9}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2}Getting Started}{9}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3}Finding and Gathering Data}{9}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5}A First Look at the Data}{12}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.1}Identifying the Observations: Who is Who ?}{12}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.2}Some Intrumental Effects}{13}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {6}Calibrating: Basic Steps}{14}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.1}Radio Frequency Passband}{14}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.2}Phase Calibration}{14}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.3}Amplitude}{15}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.4}Antenna Gain and Flux Scale}{15}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7}Calibrating: Strategies}{15}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {7.1}DSB versus Separate Sideband Calibration}{15}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {7.2}EXTERNAL versus INTERNAL phase calibration}{16}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {7.3}Antenna Based Calibration}{16}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {8}Editing}{17}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {8.1}What is Editing ?}{17}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {8.2}Flagging and Tagging}{17}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {9}Calibration: The Automatic Package}{17}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {9.1}First look}{18}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {9.2}Calibration}{19}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {9.3}Flux density calibration}{20}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {9.4}Some Checks}{22}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {10}Dirty tricks: Back to Real-time}{22}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {10.1}Baselines}{22}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {10.2}Atmospheric calibration}{23}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {11}Appendix}{23}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {11.1}Old Projects: Loading and Gathering Data}{23}