Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 162
This version created on 05 October 2006

Automated Analysis of Radio Surveys for Ultracool Dwarfs


Stephen Bourke, NUI Galway
Gregg Hallinan, NUI Galway
Aaron Golden, NUI Galway
Huib Jan van Langevelde, JIVE
Lisa Harvey-Smith, JIVE

While the upcoming generation of radio instruments promise great
advances in the the field of very low mass stars and brown dwarf
science, the analysis of the vast amounts of data produced by these
instruments presents a serious challenge.  We present here, work on
automating the analysis of large radio datasets using ParselTongue,
the Python interface to AIPS, as well as results of work already
carried out.  Specifically we report its application to recent VLA
observations of ultracool dwarfs.  It is shown that utilisation of
this environment possesses many advantages over traditional methods.

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