How-To Guides#

Practical step-by-step guides to help you achieve a specific goal. Most useful when you’re trying to get something done.


Infrastructure#

These guides provide information on how to use GBO infrastructure.

Remote Connection

How to connect remotely to the GBO network?

Remote connections

General Guides#

These guides provide information on how to perform general and common tasks with the GBT.

Observing Instructions

Most basic steps to observe with the GBT

GBT observing

Observing Tactics and Recommendations

GBT tactics

Observing Mode Guides#

These guides contain end-to-end instructions, i.e. how to set up specific observations and how to calibrate and post-process the obtained data.

Polarization

How to derive a Mueller matrix?

Mueller matrix

Pulsars

How to observe Pulsars?

Pulsar observations


Receiver specific Guides#

These guides provide receiver specific information on how to achieve a specific goal.

Argus

How-to observe with Argus (75-115 GHz)

Argus

MUSTANG-2

Guides for MUSTANG-2 (bolometer camera)

MUSTANG-2


Data Reduction#

GBTIDL

How-to process spectra using GBTIDL (examples)

GBTIDL

Calcuate the Opacity

How-to calculate the opacity for your observations.

Calculate opacity