CARTA - Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy

CARTA user manual for v1.4

• Introduction
  • The mission of CARTA
  • Client-Server architecture
  • Codebase and releases
  • Getting help
  • Contributors
  • Software citation
  • Acknowledgement
  • Copyright and License
• Installation and configuration
  • CARTA-server
  • CARTA-desktop: macOS 10.14/10.15
  • CARTA-desktop: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS/20.04 LTS
  • CARTA-desktop: Redhat 7 and 8
  • CARTA-desktop: Redhat 6
  • Command line startup
  • Troubleshooting
• Graphical user interface
  • Components
  • Quickstart guide
    • Image viewing 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 tab
    • Light and dark theme
    • 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
  • Image viewer
  • Tiled rendering
  • Render configuration of a raster image
  • Contour rendering
  • Match images in world coordinates
  • Changing image view
  • Cursor information
  • Configuring an image plot
  • Animator
• Image cube analysis tools
  • Region of interest
    • Shared region with conserved solid angle
    • Shared region management
    • Analytics with shared regions
    • Region import and export
  • Spatial profiler
  • Spectral profiler
  • Moment map generator
  • Spectral line query
  • Stokes analysis widget
  • Profile smoothing
  • Statistics widget
  • Histogram widget
• Catalogue visualization
  • Catalogue filtering and rendering as image overlay
  • Catalogue 2D scatter plot
  • Catalogue histogram plot
  • Linked catalogue visualization
• Appendix A: version history
  • 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 performace
  • File browser
  • Animator
  • Histogram
  • Image viewer
  • Stokes analysis
  • Region of interest
  • Catalogue
  • GUI
• Appendix C: development log
  • v1.3 -> v1.4
  • v1.2 -> v1.3
  • v1.1 -> v1.2
  • v1.0 -> v1.1