Epics- VLA Calibration Improvement: Improvements to the flagging heuristics for system and RFI Issues.
- RFI heuristics for VLA PI pipeline will be modified - moving toward VLASS or VLASS-derived
- bad deformatter flagging should gracefully recover from bad deformatter on refant
- Heuristic changes for bad deformatter identification
- proper multi-band support
- allow different min/max solints per band
- allow different bandpass calibrators per band
- API plot should appear in weblog
- gaintable flagging of final gaintables based on statistics (do within final cals?)
- heuristics need to be defined
- Fluxboot 2 display refinements (PIPE-319, PIPE-426)
- Fluxboot fitorder determined when different gain calibrators used for different bands
- Antenna pointing solutions in weblog
- observing log in weblog
- flagging summary per stage (SRDP-411)
- AQUA Report needs to be finished (SRDP-194, CASR-263, CASR-358)
- VLA Spectral Line Calibration: Modifications to the system to support Spectral Line science with the VLA.
- per-baseband delay capability should be implemented
- ability to use spw-mapping per baseband for final gain calibration in low S/N regime (mixed spw setups)
- pipeline should use fluxboot2 results to determine if gain calibration on individual spws will have too low S/N
- switched power weights (CASR-476)
- mstransform hanning smooth pass through (CASR-357)
- SPW intents and processing options need to be passed from RCT/OPT to pipeline
- SDM option
- PPR option
- Intents : Spectral Line or Continuum
- Processing Options: Hanning smooth, RFI Flagging, Statwt
- VLA Imaging Pipeline: Initial version of VLA Imaging pipeline targeting Ku-band and above
- continuum-only
- Use nsigma threshhold
- X-band and higher frequency
- ALMA PI Driven Imaging: Additional options in the pipeline and interface
- Pipeline
- Selectable resolution (several options), higher resolution, max sensitivity, max sensitivity + larger scale
- Interface
- rest frequencies for commonly used transitions selectable (interface with splatalogue)
- support the multiple resolution modes
- multiple sources per request
- multiple cube requests
- Improved Download Support: Cutouts for images and data selection for MS downloads
- Archive restore workflows should use XML template recipes for VLA and ALMA delivery
- templates provided in CASA 5.6.1/2
- enable intent selection, target selection, frequency averaging, and time averaging
- batch request capability
- upload formatted catalog, obtain cutouts against selected image collections (e.g., ALMA, VLASS)
- Metadata Improvement: Improved meta-data for products in the archive.
- Thumbnails for archived image products
- CARTA- Archive Integration: Integration of the CARTA viewer with the Archive.
- Support starting CARTA backend (require to be logged-in) and user views through new web browser tab
- User should be able to select an image product and open it in CARTA
- User should see a progress bar so they know what is happening
- important for large cubes that are not available within seconds
- Ability to open second image from archive within CARTA and overlay
- Regions support is required
- region information should be available to archive interface for cutout or search functionality
- Ability to upload their own image
- Overlay catalogs (available in archive or external catalog available in CARTA)
- those in archive (e.g., NVSS, VLASS, etc)
- external catalogs available in CARTA (e.g., 2MASS, IRAS, GAIA)
- Upload user's catalog
- Catalog Support: Support for searchable scientific catalogs in the Archive
- Image Ingestion: If not already complete the ingestion and service of VLASS and ALMA images.
- ALMA
- ALMA cubes and continuum images associated with each MOUS need to be ingested
- ALMA image products must be displayed to users and downloadable
- Thumbnails should be present for ALMA image products
- Viewable in a CARTA session
- VLASS
- VLASS QL images from the entire first epoch must be ingested
- VLASS images must be displayed and downloadable
- VLASS images require thumbnails and high-resolution png images
- Viewable in CARTA session
- VLA Images
- When VLA imaging pipeline comes on line products must be ingested
- Image products have same requirements as ALMA image products
- Large Project Support: Support for the ingest and serving of products from Large projects as collections.
- VLA Sky Survey
- Epochs 1.1 and 1.2 images ingested and served
- proper position search within the images and SDMs for VLASS
- Projects should be viewable as a 'collection' to see only the data from that project.
- project specific metadata should be searchable
- Interface to support upload and ingestion of large project data
- Observatory Calibrator Database: Development of a centralized calibrator database for the VLA.
- Performance Improvement: Efforts to make the system more responsive and decrease product latency.
- Optimized imaging
- Multiple sources per MOUS grouped into single request
- Multiple cubes specified per source(s) grouped into single request
- Reduce restore load if user comes back to specifc MOUS several times for different jobs
- Restore
- Reduce latency for popular data sets
- Restore datasets with same CASA version as calibrated with
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