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CASA is a radio astronomy software, which applies radio astronomical techniques for the data analysis. It does operations on the measurement set. A measurement set (MS) contains all the information about the observation. The information is stroered in the form of the tables. Major tables inside the MS are the following

  1. Great Overview from ATLAS Project: https://youtu.be/RqyGbAWw8l0
  2. A batch file is a script file that stores commands to be executed in a serial order.
  3. table.lock
    4. Further there are folders inside the MS. These folder consists of specific tables and can be seen using browsetable task.
  4. Daemon - In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.