CARTA - Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy

CARTA User Manual for v3.0.0

• Introduction
  • The mission of CARTA
  • Client-Server architecture
  • Codebase and releases
  • Getting help
  • Contributors
  • Software citation
  • Acknowledgement
  • Copyright and License
• Installation and configuration
  • Site Deployment Mode
  • User Deployment Mode
    • Installation via package managers
    • Installation of the stand-alone application (direct download)
  • How to run CARTA?
    • Site Deployment Mode: connecting CARTA
    • User Deployment Mode: running CARTA on a remote server
    • User Deployment Mode: running CARTA on a local computer
  • CARTA initialization flags
  • Browser options
  • Log and configuration files
  • Installation of fits2idia
    • Installation via package managers
    • Other installation methods
  • Troubleshooting
• Graphical user interface
  • Components
  • Quick start
    • Image view interactions
    • Region of interest interactions
    • Cursor update
    • Chart interactions
  • Getting help
  • Configuring the layout
    • Resizing a panel
    • Relocating a tab as a new panel
    • Relocating a tab to another panel
    • Maximizing and restoring a panel
    • Detaching and attaching a tab
    • Creating a widget as a floating widget or as a docked widget
    • Light and dark themes
    • Custom layout, save, and restore
  • User preferences
  • Mouse interactions with images
    • Zooming an image
    • Panning an image
  • Mouse interactions with region of interest
    • Region creation
    • Region selection and modification
  • Mouse interactions with charts
    • Zooming a chart
    • Panning a chart
    • Resetting range
  • Controls and shortcuts
• Image cube visualization
  • Server-side status and session resume
  • File browser
    • HDF5 (IDIA schema) image support
    • Forming a Stokes hypercube
    • Loading images with the Lattice Expression Language (LEL)
    • Loading a complex-valued image
  • Image viewer
    • Single-panel view and multi-panel view
    • Raster rendering
    • Contour rendering
    • Vector field rendering
    • Matching images spatially and spectrally
    • Exploring an image
    • Configuring an image plot
  • Animator
  • File header dialog
• Image cube analysis tools
  • Region of interest
    • Shared region with conserved solid angle
    • Shared line/polyline region with conserved angular length
    • Shared region management
    • Analytics with shared regions
    • Region import and export
  • Spatial profiler
  • Spectral profiler
  • Moment map generator
  • Position-Velocity (PV) image generator
  • 2D image fitting
  • Profile fitting
  • Profile smoothing
  • Spectral line query
  • Stokes analysis widget
  • Statistics widget
  • Histogram widget
  • Distance measure tool
  • Cursor info widget
  • Catalog widget and online catalog query dialog
• Catalog visualization
  • Catalog filtering
  • Catalog image overlay
  • Catalog 2D scatter plot
  • Catalog histogram plot
  • Linked catalog visualization
• Appendix A: version history
  • Version 3.0
  • Version 2.0
  • Version 1.4
  • Version 1.3.1
  • Version 1.3
  • Version 1.2.2
  • Version 1.2.1
  • Version 1.2
  • Version 1.1
  • Version 1.0.1
  • Version 1.0
• Appendix B: known issues
  • Stability and performance
  • Spectral profiler
  • Spectral line query
  • Spatial profiler
  • Vector overlay dialog
  • File browser
  • Animator
  • Image viewer
  • Region of interest
  • Catalog
  • Online catalog query
  • GUI
  • Misc.
• Appendix C: development log
  • v2.0 -> v3.0
  • v1.4 -> v2.0
  • v1.3 -> v1.4
  • v1.2 -> v1.3
  • v1.1 -> v1.2
  • v1.0 -> v1.1
• Appendix D: preferences schema
  • Preferences