SoAP - Solar ALMA Pipeline

ALMA is a powerful new tool which can also observe the solar atmosphere, a very dynamic and spatially intermittent phenomenon. Observing the temporal evolution of a solar target at high spatial resolution is essential for understanding the processes at work in the solar atmosphere.

Since Cycle 4, ALMA gives solar observers a unique opportunity to obtain high cadence time series of intensities at mm wavelengths. However, producing science ready output from the calibrated measurements sets is a very laborious and challenging task. We present here the Solar ALMA Pipeline (SoAP), a tool build on top of CASA which automates this task and reduces significantly the number of parameters which users have to set up. The performance of SoAP is illustrated for Band 3 & 6 data.