CASA

Casa, the Common Astronomy Software Applications package, is being developed by NRAO with the primary goal of supporting the data post-processing needs of the next generation of radio astronomical telescopes such as ALMA and VLA.

By Torben Leifsen
Published Sep. 17, 2019

Use

Casa is installed on all linux machines at the institute. To use the software you need to load a module.

Use module avail casa to see available versions

To see older versions: module --show-hidden avail

With Alma pipeline:

Use: module load casa/6.6.6

ALMA Science Pipeline User’s Guide for Release 2025.1.0.35, CASA 6.6.6-17, python3.10

Pipeline Tasks Reference Manual Release 2025.1.0

Release notes

Without pipeline:

Use: module load casa/6.7.2

Casa 6.7.2 documentation

Release notes

Older version with Alma pipeline:

6.5.4

Use: module load casa/6.5.4

ALMA Science Pipeline User’s Guide
for Release 2023.1.0.124, CASA 6.5.4-9, python3.8

Pipeline Tasks Reference Manual, Release 2023.1.0

Release notes

5.4.0-70

Use: module load casa/5.4.0-70

Older versions without pipeline:

6.6.0

Use: module load casa/6.6

Casa 6.6.0 documentation

Release notes

4.6.0

Use: module load casa/4.6.0

Documentation

4.5.3

Use: module load casa/4.5.3

Documentation

Published Sep. 17, 2019 11:53 AM - Last modified Dec. 6, 2025 7:09 PM