The testing and validation process of the archive-new restore versus the output of the production calibration pipeline revealed minor differences between the results. The differences were tracked down to the production calibration pipeline using a standalone installation of CASA that did not have the continually updating data repository, thus Earth Orientation Parameters were becoming out of date relative to the regular CASA installation. It was decided that the production pipeline should be running on the current and updating data repository to provide the most accurate calibration
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Consulted: John Tobin
Claire Chandler
Juergen Ott
Jeff Kern
Drew Medlin