[daip] outline for talk

[Eric Greisen]

Below is an outline (PowerPoint bullets) for the NSF software review
that I will almost certainly not give.  But I offer it for comments
anyway to see if other important things should be on the list.


           AIPS Group

Eric Greisen - Scientist, 75%

Amy Mioduszewski - Asst. Scientist, <= 75% (really ~ 50%)

Leonia Kogan - Scientis, 40%  (+ 35% EVLA planning)

Wes Young - Software Engineer, 15% AIPS

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Lorant Sjouwerman - Assoc. Scientist, <= 50 %


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Major accomplishments in last 2 years (since proposal)

0. Support AIPS users world-wide, helping with installation and usage
      problems, fixing bugs and inconveniences

1. VLBI:
      APCAL - estimate opacity with weather tables
      VLA as VLBA station - calibration transfer
      Earth orientation Parameter - correction for poor estimates

2. VLA:
      FILLM - read archive data from disk, avoid bad concatenations
      Models for primary flux calibrators - Claire Chandler models
          at high frequency, Amy now doing lower frequencies

3. Calibration:
      DELZN - fit calibrators for clock, atmosphere
      ATMCA - interpolate multiple calibrators to target
      CALIB, FRING - overlapping intervals
      CALIB - robust solution methods added, allows auto-flagging

4. Work toward pipelines:
      VLARUN - VLA pipeline procedure, good first start
      SYSTEM - new verb to do system commands from inside AIPS
      FLAGR/FINDR - auto-editing tasks
      RLDIF - new task to return parameter for pol. calibration
      IMFIT/SETFC,others - return results to AIPS

5. Plotting - full color control of line drawing:
         separate contours by spectral channel
         color polarization vectors by angle
         separate IFs, polarizations in point plots

6. Documentation:
      CookBook kept up to date
      CookBook now available in cross-linked html and pdf forms
      XHELP links help files using browser also with the html and pdf
          CookBook

6. Systems:
      Mac OS/X - AIPS port
      Binary installation: Mac w IBM, Solaris w SUN, Linux w Intel
      Read-only file systems for DATs, security purposes
      MNJ - updates systems area, POPS automatically
      

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   Slide showing the shipping data


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Current VLA Pipeline "VLARUN"

calvlarun:  (SNPLT between steps)
    SETJY  - clear then calculate for flux calibrators
    CALIB  - P solution on all calibrators
    CLCAL  - move above to CL table
    CALIB  - apply previous cal, average, do A&P
    GETJY  - convert gains of all cals to same scale
    CLCAL  - apply above to CL table
    If (line work) then
       copy tables to line data
       BPASS  - find bandpass calibration
       POSSM  - plot bandpass calibration
    TASAV  - save tables to null file

imavlarun:
    SPLIT  - apply calibration
    For each source in dataset (read SU table to find)
        IMAGR - each IF separately in line data