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\subsection{Inteferometry Modelling}
The simulation data provided were in data cubes with 256 pixels/channels on each dimension. This represented an area of 0.26pc by 0.26pc, with a 20 km/s wide spectrum centered at the 0-1 transition of ^{13}CO and ^{12}CO.
The We use the Common Astronomy Software Applications (CASA)
is a software package that allows us to simulate observations with various interferometers and single dish telescopes. It also has tools that allow us to
analyse this data.
We will be running two tasks in CASA. The first, simobserve, will simulate
an observation with
various specified parameters. The second, simanalyze, will deconvolve and clean the
observation.
\subsection{CASA Parameters}
Simobserve parameters were set as follows.
The data cube was set as the skymodel, and we assume task simobserve. We assumed a distance of 450 pc to the
source. This was chosen as it is the distance of HH46/47, a molecular outflow powered by a forming star that has been recently observed with ALMA (Arce et al. 2013). The location of the source
(simobserve's "Indirection") was set to be the same as the location of HH46/47: J2000 8h25m44 -51d00m00.
Incell, the angular size of a pixel at the desired distance was calculated using the small angle formula. With a pixel width of ~0.001pc, and
a calculated other CASA settings from this distance
to the source of 450pc the angular size of a pixle is ~0.5".
Incenter specified the frequency on which the spectrum was centered. For 13CO, the 1-0 transition is at 110.20GHz and
for 12CO it is at 115.27GHz.
Inbright was chosen to be the
brightest individual pixel in dimensions of the
data cube. This was calculated for each cube. As simulation. We set the
cubes were provided in CGS units, this was converted to Janskys.
Noise was chosen noise to be tsys-atm which uses
CASA's the pwc
(Precipitable (precipitable Water Vapor)
variable and temperature to calculate noise \textbf{still might need more explaination}. Both Temperature and
pwc temperature. These were kept at
their default values. These were CASA defaults of 0.5mm of water and
a ground temperature of
269K. This reflects 269K which reflect good
observing conditions at \href{http://almascience.eso.org/about-alma/weather/atmosphere-model}{ALMA}.
The total observations time (CASA's 'totaltime' variable) was generally chosen to be between 3600s and 7200s. However, some shorter observations were also made to test We examined the
usefullness of snapshots. Each observation is made up of a number of pointings or samplings (CASA's 'integration' variable) which was generally chosen to be 10s. Longer pointings were also tested.
The ALMA configuration (CASA's 'antennalist' variable) used for most effects of
changing the
trials was total integration time, the
3rd configuration of pointing time and the
full array. However, various other configurations were compared. ALMA array used.
\subsection{Analysis}
The paramters We used
for CASA's analysis were also considered.
The number of cleaning iterations (CASA's 'niter' variable) was chosen the CASA task simanalyze to
be 10 000. deconvolve and clean the observed images. We
will show determined that
increasing the number of 10 000 cleaning
iterations beyond this is ineffective.
The cycles were optimal and that we never terminated the clean early with the threshold
at which cleaning stops (CASA's 'threshold' variable) was set at 0.1mJy.
Tests showed that changing this had little effect of the data.
\subsection{All Runs}
\begin{center}