<shortdescription>Processes only the specified scans. A scan specification consists of an exec block index followed by the : character, followed by a comma separated list of scan indexes or scan index ranges. (e.g. 0:1;1:2~6,8;2:,3:24~30)</shortdescription>
<casaxml xsi:schemaLocation="http://casa.nrao.edu/schema/casa.xsd file:///opt/casa/code/xmlcasa/xml/casa.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://casa.nrao.edu/schema/psetTypes.html">
<task category="import/export" name="importasdm" type="function">
<shortdescription>Convert an ALMA Science Data Model observation into a CASA visibility file (MS)</shortdescription>
Convert an ALMA Science Data Model observation into a CASA visibility
<param mustexist="true" kind="asdm" name="asdm" type="path">
<shortdescription>Name of input asdm directory (on disk)</shortdescription>
<description>Name of input ASDM file (directory)
Example: asdm='ExecBlock3'
<param kind="ms" name="vis" type="string">
<shortdescription>Root name of the ms to be created. Note the .ms is NOT added</shortdescription>
<description>Root ms name.
Note that a prefix (.ms) is NOT appended to this
<param name="createmms" type="bool">
<shortdescription>Create a Multi-MS output</shortdescription>
<description>Create a Multi-MS partitioned according to the given
For more detailed documentation on partition,
Multi-MS and the MPI use in CASA, please see CASA
Docs (https://casa.nrao.edu/casadocs/).
<param subparam="true" ignorecase="true" name="separationaxis" type="string">
<shortdescription>Axis to do parallelization across (scan, spw, baseline, auto)</shortdescription>
<description>Axis to do parallelization across
Options: 'scan', 'spw', 'baseline', 'auto'
* auto: will partition per scan/spw to obtain
optimal load balancing with the following
1 - Maximize the scan/spw/field distribution
2 - Generate sub-MSs with similar size
* 'scan' or 'spw': will partition the MS into
scan or spw. The individual sub-MSs may not be
balanced with respect to the number of rows.
* 'baseline': mostly useful for Single-Dish