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'''AIPS''' is a package to support the reduction and analysis of data taken with radio telescopes. It is most useful for arrays of telescopes like the [[VLA]] and [[VLBA]] and the [[Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope|WSRT]]. In more recent years, it has also been used successfully for [[VLBI]] (very long baseline interferometry).

== Astronomical Image Processing System ==

See also [[AIPS++]], a package designed to be a successor to AIPS

== General ==

AIPS is a package to support the reduction and analysis of data taken with radio telescopes. It is most useful for arrays of telescopes like the [[VLA]] and [[VLBA]] and the [[Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope|WSRT]]. In more recent years, it has also been used successfully for [[VLBI]] (very long baseline interferometry).

The software was originally developed by [[NRAO]] in the seventies, and has since grown to be the defacto standard software package in the worldwide radioastronomy community.

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To new postgraduate students, AIPS is such an idiosyncratic piece of software that a rich and varied [http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/mark/AIPS.html niche humour] has developed around it.

==See also==

See also [[AIPS++]], a package designed to be a successor to AIPS

== Links ==

* [http://www.aips.nrao.edu/ AIPS homepage]