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- Cube Imaging pipeline PIPEREQ-142
- Resolve calibrator handling PIPEREQ-132
- Imaging fails in somecases in 2021.2 (PIPE-1173)
Change VLASS parameter compressionusemedian default from False to True (PIPE-1338)
VLA 2022 Priorities
Bugs
- PIPE-1287 - fluxboot failing with target intent using pointing and a CG intent with the pointing setup
- PIPE-1335 - selection heuristics when delay calibrator mixed with CG intent
- PIPE-1098 - cont.dat failures for targets with some characters
Primary Development Priorities
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Enhanced DTS issue identification and flagging (CASR-563/PIPE-986)
- Option to disable bad deformatter flagging completely or partially, PIPE-1183
Possible RFI flagging refinements
- per baseline flagging - (PIPE-1286)
- combine targetflag heuristics into checkflag - (PIPE-1342)
- flux calibrator RFI flagging should use residuals - (PIPE-1274)
- Backup flags in hifv_applycal prior to calibration (PIPE-854)
- Change hifv_targetflag to flag target data using a .flagtargetstemplate.txt - (PIPE-37)
- Add plots to PI pipeline statwt weblog
- Only show post statwt plots
- show box plots for weights per spw, per antenna, and per scan
- ID places where statwt goes sideways
- Long solution interval calculation improvement (PIPE-1002/PIPEREQ-64)
- Short Solution interval calculation improvments (PIPE-1340)
- Short solint calculation improvement
Per-baseband delay solutions (PIPE-670)
Spectral window mapping for gain calibration (PIPE-671)
enables phase calibration if not enough S/N due to faint calibrator
Antenna position corrections in a post-observation time window (CASR-556)
Gain table flagging extensions
Ripple detection (bad switch problem) (PIPEREQ-11)
Gain outlier detection (PIPEREQ-10)
Fluxboot gain solution flagging (PIPEREQ-9)
Fluxboot QA metric adjustments (PIPEREQ-8)
Enable data weights to be determined from switched power (CASR-476)
Use MS tool hanning smoothing to enable per spw hanning smoothing (CASR-523; PIPE-672)
Self-calibration
- Enable self-calibration heuristics for continuum data only in new task (hif_selfcal) and operate on only the _cont.ms (PIPE-)
- Joint ALMA and VLA development and should work on both types of data
Spectral lines
Cont.dat interpretation to treat non-specified spws as continuum-only (PIPE-1043)
Design and set up independent spectral line calibration recipe that could be used by end users or triggered using recalibration workflow
- Save pre-target RFI flagging and split non-RFI flagged data after hifv_statwt using a new task (PIPE-)
- For VLA data, enable steps to run findcont to only run on line spws
- hif_makeimlist(specmode='mfs')
- hif_findcont()
- hif_uvcontfit()
- hif_uvcontsub()
Spectral window mapping for gain calibration (PIPE-671)
enables phase calibration if not enough S/N on narrow spws
- Waiting on CASA development
- RFI flagging on uv-grid (CASR-496)
- avoids flagging of bright spectral lines
- RFI flagging on uv-grid (CASR-496)
Cont.dat interpretation to treat non-specified spws as continuum-only
Weblog
- Zoom feature for all hif_makeimages plots (PIPE-1083)
- plot labels in semifinalbpdcals (PIPE-984)
- parallactic angle vs time plot (PIPE-836)
- Add API plot to VLA pipeline runs (PIPE-580)
Minor things
- Report total MS sizes at end of calibration on main weblog page (PIPE-1166)
- multi-band weblog plots should not use shared time axis for plots (PIPE-1044)
- Zeros flagged not reported properly (PIPE-1033)Design and set up independent spectral line calibration recipe that could be used by end users or triggered using recalibration workflow
Imaging
Detect mosaicked fields and perform joint deconvolution with mosaic gridder
Enable basic cube imaging
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