[evlatests] [Ecsv] EVLA Calibration/Imaging Meeting tomorrow

[Rick Perley]

    <Audible Sigh>

    I had made the incorrect assumption that 317 was available *every* 
Thursday from 9 to 10 for this meeting.  But it ain't so.... 

    So we have two options:

    1) Go to the auditorium.  Advantages are that videocon is still 
available, and we don't have to change the time.  Disadvantage is that 
it's not set up for discussion (it's in 'lecture mode' for the all-hands 
meeting later today).   The whole point of this meeting is to encourage 
discussion, which is darn hard with theater style seating. 

    2) Move to Friday.  Rm 317 is available (and I've got it reserved) 
from 10 until 2PM -- we can pick any time. 

    Preferences?  (I'm especially interested in hearing from our CV 
colleagues).  I have a strong preference for #2.

    Rick

Claire Chandler wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> SOC317 is reserved for a management meeting 8.30-10.30am today, where 
> will your EVLA meeting be?
>
> Claire
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Rick Perley wrote:
>
>>    At Thursday's 9AM meeting (which I have decided to call 'EVLA
>> Calibration & Imaging'), I'd like to focus on two topics:
>>
>>    1) Wide-band calibration techniques.  The 2048 MHz-wide test data
>> taken Friday evening at C-band has proven to be most instructive to me
>> for aiding in understanding how wide-band calibration can (and perhaps
>> should) be done.  Eric's new enhancements to BPASS, plus the new tasks
>> RLDLY and SOUSP have proven extremely useful in this regard.  I propose
>> to lay out the procedure I followed, and show interesting plots
>> illustrating the lessons learned, and what yet must be understood, and
>> done.   Others are invited to show their results on this topic.
>>
>>    2) Optimum polarimetry.  There are, I think, two topics here,
>> interlinked.  The first is proper calibration -- optimum (or sufficient)
>> determination of the cross-polarization terms.  The second is
>> application for the purpose of optimum imaging.  There has been some
>> active discussion of these points on the evlatests listserver -- there
>> is I think more agreement amongst the experts than would be concluded
>> from reading these posts -- the goal tomorrow will be agreement on the
>> best way to proceed.  This is a complex topic.
>>
>>    Room 317.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ecsv mailing list
>> Ecsv at listmgr.cv.nrao.edu
>> http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/ecsv
>>