CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications, is the primary data processing software for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), and is often used also for other radio telescopes. CASA has always been distributed as a single, integrated application, including a Python interpreter and all the libraries, packages and modules. As part of the ongoing development of CASA 6, and the switch from Python 2 to 3, CASA will provide greater flexibility for users to integrate CASA into existing Python workflows by using a modular architecture and standard pip wheel installation. These proceedings of the 2019 Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) conference will give an overview of the CASA 6 project.
@article{arxiv.1912.09439,
title = {CASA 6: Modular Integration in Python},
author = {Ryan Raba and Darrell Schiebel and Bjorn Emonts and Robert Garwood and Federico Montesino Pouzols and Sandra Castro and C. Enrique Garcia-Dabo and David Mehringer and Ville Suoranta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09439},
year = {2019}
}
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4 pages, to appear in proceedings of ADASS XXIX, ASP Conf. Series