[daip] outline for talk

[Jim Ulvestad]

I think whatever we do on AIPS should also have a segment on the plans
through 2009, which is the period covered by the AUI proposal.
 From my perspective, these plans include use of AIPS as the
primary package for both VLA and VLBA data reduction, use
of AIPS as a reality check for any AIPS++ work on EVLA
reduction/testing, use of AIPS for testing of the EVLA prototype
correlator.  Beyond 2009, I believe we will need to rely on AIPS
for VLBA, but I'm not now clear what we expect AIPS++ to do
for EVLA in 2010.

Jim

Eric Greisen wrote:

>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
>
>--------------------------------------
>
>Lorant Sjouwerman - Assoc. Scientist, <= 50 %
>
>
>*************************************************************
>
>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
>      
>
>*************************************************************
>
>   Slide showing the shipping data
>
>
>*************************************************************
>
>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
>
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