2023-10-06 Meeting notes

Agenda

• News

• Program Administration
  • Initial visiting committee feedback
    • Maybe try to get VLASS catalogs into NED/SIMBAD (wait for SE?)
• Project Management
• Project RADIAL
  • Proposal going in to NSF for 2nd worker node+sysadmin and PM on Jan 18.
  • New faculty contact for UPRM
• Science Ready Data Products
  • User survey - ready to go?
  • Selfcal from D-config start (Oct 20)
  • AAT 4.3.0 wrapping up development and moving to testing
    • • Refactored scanlists are a primary new feature for users
      • https://webtest.aoc.nrao.edu/portal/#/subscanViewer/nrao:567525
      • https://webtest.aoc.nrao.edu/portal/#/subscanViewer/vlba:528772
      • https://webtest.aoc.nrao.edu/portal/#/subscanViewer/vlba:396604
      • VLBA ingestion will also go through AAT and not legacy archive after release
      • CASA 6.5.4-9 pipeline released
        • Used for AUDI
        • Ticket in to make it default for AAT (SSA-7928)
• VLASS
  • Restart SE after last ~200 3.1 QL QA'd
  • VLASS cube ingest to quarterly planning, should get a few sprints in Feb/March - any other upgrades (e.g. manager improvements, RADIAL/CHTC jobs) to request as part of that?
• CIRADA
  • VLASS cube catalog scripts and convolved/regridded products can count as NRAO in-kind contribution. DAs and scientists should charge to CIRADA subsidiary for cube-related work, including QA, script development  etc.
• AOB