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VLA 2025 Priorities (currently 2024 rollover and not necessarily prioritized)

• Pipeline will crash if one calibration source gets fully flagged by flagtemplate or other mechanism

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• Use near-field RMS to adjust auto-masking noise threshold (

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  )

• Zoom-in plots on non-128 MHz windows for inspection of bandpass in finalcals, semifinalBPdcals,testBPdcals, plotsummary for targets and cals (

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  ) Less critical than other items, but still desired.
• Agg cont adjustments to exclude spectral line windows (unless only spectral line) (

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• Different bandpass calibrators in different bands - (

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• Option to disable bad deformatter flagging completely or partially, (

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• Detect mosaicked fields and perform joint deconvolution with mosaic gridder (

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  )
• access to nmajor parameter and setting a default (

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• flux calibrator RFI flagging should use residuals - (

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• TestBPdcals uses wrong integration time multipliers in multi-band data (

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  )

• Jira
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• Enhanced DTS issue identification and flagging (

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• Only flag offending polarization for DTS issues

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• limit_short_solint='int' uses 0.0s (

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• remove hifv_targetflag and add its heuristic to hifv_checkflag (

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  )

• Jira
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• Don't show setup Intent scans as calibrators (

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• when spws are in reverse frequency order, print them in proper frequency order (

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• plot labels in semifinalbpdcals (PIPE-984)
• parallactic angle vs time plot (PIPE-836)
• Add API plot to VLA pipeline runs (PIPE-580)

• Jira
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VLA 2024 Priorities

Highest Priority:

• Pipeline will crash if one calibration source gets fully flagged by flagtemplate or other mechanism

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• Use near-field RMS to adjust auto-masking noise threshold (

  Jira
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• Spectral line stuff:
  • Task to create VLA _line.ms (

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  • Ability to use _line.ms and cont.ms in different pipeline tasks. (

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  • Detection Spectral windows for spectral line processing (

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    )

  • Spectral line calibration recipe definition (

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    )

  • Zoom-in plots on non-128 MHz windows for inspection of bandpass in finalcals, semifinalBPdcals,testBPdcals, plotsummary for targets and cals (

    Jira
    server DMS JIRA columnIds issuekey,summary,issuetype,created,updated,duedate,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution columns key,summary,type,created,updated,due,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution serverId eb2e750b-a83a-387e-8345-36eee8a98f01 key PIPE-1413

    ) Less critical than other items, but still desired.
  • Enable basic cube imaging (

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  • Use MS tool hanning smoothing to enable per spw hanning smoothing (CASR-523;

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  • include additional flag versions in exported *.ms.flagversions.tgz (

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  • Add task to casa_piperestore script to support spectral line restores (

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  • Agg cont adjustments to exclude spectral line windows (unless only spectral line) (

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• Different bandpass calibrators in different bands - (

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• Option to disable bad deformatter flagging completely or partially, (

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• Detect mosaicked fields and perform joint deconvolution with mosaic gridder (

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• Manual and automatic refant ignore do not work together (

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• Enable time limits for antenna position updates

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• Don't show setup Intent scans as calibrators (

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• when spws are in reverse frequency order, print them in proper frequency order (

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• plot labels in semifinalbpdcals (PIPE-984)
• parallactic angle vs time plot (PIPE-836)
• Add API plot to VLA pipeline runs (PIPE-580)
• hifv_circfeedpolcal should not add the KCROSS talbe to cal library after second call (

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• hifv_circfeedpolcal should include CALIBRATE_POL_ANGLE intent for KCROSS solutions (

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VLA 2023 Priorities

Blocker:

• Per-band manipulation of apply, antexclude, and usemedian for hifv_syspower (

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  )
• Detect mosaicked fields and perform joint deconvolution with mosaic gridder (

  Jira
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  )
• Use wproject gridder for single-field L and S-band imaging 

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• Option to disable bad deformatter flagging completely or partially, (

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  )
• Antenna position corrections missed if Bx,By=0 and Bz !=0 (

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• Don't show setup Intent scans as calibrators (

  Jira
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  )
• when spws are in reverse frequency order, print them in proper frequency order (

  Jira
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• plot labels in semifinalbpdcals (PIPE-984)
• parallactic angle vs time plot (PIPE-836)
• Add API plot to VLA pipeline runs (PIPE-580)
• hifv_circfeedpolcal should not add the KCROSS talbe to cal library after second call (

  Jira
  server DMS JIRA columnIds issuekey,summary,issuetype,created,updated,duedate,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution columns key,summary,type,created,updated,due,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution serverId eb2e750b-a83a-387e-8345-36eee8a98f01 key PIPE-1534

• hifv_circfeedpolcal should include CALIBRATE_POL_ANGLE intent for KCROSS solutions (

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VLASS 2022 Priorities

• Cube Imaging pipeline PIPEREQ-142
• Resolved calibrator handling PIPEREQ-132 Deferred
• Imaging fails in some cases in 2021.2 (

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• Change VLASS parameter compressionusemedian default from False to True (

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• Change hifv_targetflag to flag target data using a .flagtargetstemplate.txt - (PIPE-37,

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• Add reimaging_resources.tgz to manifest.xml (

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VLA 2022 Priorities

Prioritized list:

Blocker:

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• multi-band weblog plots should not use shared time axis for plots (PIPE-1044)
• Zeros flagged not reported properly (

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  )
• Make an untarred MS when making a basic MS PIPE-749
• PIPE-1098 - cont.dat failures for targets with some characters

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• Generalize hifv_circfeedpolcal for all bands

• Enable experimental P-band calibration

• Define requirements for the continuum imaging pipeline to use outlier fields to remove effects of bright sources rather than using large images
• RFI flagging on uv-grid (CASR-496)
  • avoids flagging of bright spectral lines
• Enable data weights to be determined from switched power (CASR-476)

2021 Priorities

Primary Development Priorities

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