Acknowledgements

A few people have been involved in the development of Miriad software for the reduction of SMA data. We are grateful to Ram Rao (SAO), Shengyuang Liu (ASIAA), Peter Teuben (Maryland), Bob Wilson (SAO), Mel Wright (Berkeley) and Jun-Hui Zhao (SAO) for pursuing this developement. In particular, Peter Teuben has made a great contribution in integrating SMA codes into Miriad .

We are also grateful to Crystal Brogan, Henrik Beuther, Chris Groppi, Todd Hunter, Dan Marrone, and Shengli Qin for their testing, debugging and useful ideas which are critical to improving the software components for the reduction of SMA data in Miriad .