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Responsive interface that works on mobile devices.
Natural language (text based) searches of the observation's title, abstract, source names, authors, and more; e.g., search on 'nova'.
Search results displayed as an Observations View (similar to the legacy archive) or a Projects View, which aggregates observations by project and also displays the title, abstract and other assorted details missing from the Observations View.
Display a scans report for a given execution block, including the scan intents and subscans.
The 'my data' feature: log in, press a button, and see a list of your observations.
If you link your ALMA and NRAO accounts, you can use either to access your observations.
For ALMA and VLA you can download your SDM as a measurement set and filter by scan intent.
For ALMA and VLA you can download a calibrated measurement set , which re-runs the calibration pipeline on your SDM.For VLA you can download a calibrated measurement set restored from a previously run calibration pipeline.

New Features

support for a wider variety of legacy VLBA IDIFITs and UVFITs data sets, due to improvements in the ingestion algorithms, ingestion of legacy VLBA data will continue
support for VLASS quicklook image and images, starting with the VLASS 1.1 'quicklook' images; these have been loaded into the system and are available for downloadsupport for VLBA IDIFITs and UVFITs data sets, which we are currently loading into the system
multi-product requests: users can now retrieve multiple products in a single request, with the following limitations:
- requested products must be from the same project and must be of the same type, e.g. six execution blocks from 17B-197, or 12 images from VLASS1.1
- users are limited by disk space and number of products. The current settings for EBs are 10 EBs or 10TB; for images 20 images or 10TB, but we will adjust these to fit the usage and our storage space

reingestion, in order to improve metadata quality
faster availability of restore functionality, as the search index updates are more complete upon calibration ingestion
support for customization of cluster job limits (both time and memory) to allow greater flexibility of CIPL processing

With the current upgraded functionality comes the need to reingest a large fraction of the ALMA observations (from Cycle 5 forward), and the ingestion of ALMA calibration information. This process will take several weeks, and thus the new capabilities will not be readily apparent to start.
Due to the separation of the UI search index from the true database of metadata, some observations do not show up right away. A fix is currently being developed to remedy this problemThe search interface for this release of the AAT/PPI is built on a completely new database of metadata, redesigned around the needs of VLASS and SRDP (ingestion of calibration products, observations with thousands of sub-scans and so on). We have ingested metadata from ALMA and the Jansky VLA into it, but it lacks metadata for the GBT and legacy VLA. Work is underway to address these issues, but until it is complete users are advised to use the legacy archive instead. VLBA ingestions of UVFITs and IDIFITs have started and will be complete in several months time.

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