Welcome to the new NRAO archive!

This archive tool provides access to VLA (historical and post-upgrade), ALMA (Cycles 1 and higher), VLBA, and significant fraction of GBT data. Users seeking GBT data not found here should submit a science help desk ticket.

Users seeking ALMA Cycle 0 and/or the full assortment of ALMA image and calibration products should use the ALMA Science Archive (https://almascience.nrao.edu/asax/).

For questions, please contact the science help desk (https://help.nrao.edu) and select the "Data Products" topic.

Introduction

Additional features this release include:

  • Support for VLBA FITSAIPS and GMVA products
  • Work under the hood to support VO TAP queries
  • Delivery structure improvements
  • Improved ALMA calibration availability



Release Notes - 4.2.0 - 2022.09.06

Epic

  • [SSA-7263] - ALMA KeyCloak Mitigation
  • [SSA-7394] - Standardize metadata units
  • [SSA-7395] - Commission ObsTAP scriptable search interface
  • [SSA-7514] - ALMA Butler integration

Engineering Task

  • [SSA-7275] - Adapt RH to use ALMA's KeyCloak
  • [SSA-7404] - identify and mitigate bad metadata observations
  • [SSA-7405] - transform existing metadata
  • [SSA-7406] - modify ingestion to use agreed-on units
  • [SSA-7407] - document agreed-on units
  • [SSA-7408] - modify indexer to use agreed-on units
  • [SSA-7409] - commission new VMs
  • [SSA-7410] - implement postgresql mirroring
  • [SSA-7411] - make VO schema functional/performant
  • [SSA-7412] - deploy VOTap web service
  • [SSA-7508] - Workspaces Support: Add pointing correction to VLASS restores
  • [SSA-7515] - dust off the code, get it into revision control
  • [SSA-7516] - deploy the ALMA Butler as a cron job

Feature

  • [SSA-7381] - WS Support: Update Ingest to handle SECI Images
  • [SSA-7418] - WS Support: Adding ancillary product support to the locator service
  • [SSA-7421] - Add wget command in emails generated by the AAT upon downloading data
  • [SSA-7464] - fix labels on scans page
  • [SSA-7467] - make scans report sortable
  • [SSA-7502] - Remove the AAT welcome (pop up) page

Bug

  • [SSA-7429] - WS Support: Ensure Calibration status flag is set properly on ingestion complete


Release Notes - 4.2.1 - 2022.12.08

Known Issues

  • Display of >1000 EBs throws Solr connection errors on production. Cause is under investigation.

Epic

  • [SSA-7569] - fix standard position searches
  • [SSA-7573] - modify `select all` functionality
  • [SSA-7580] - fix 502 errors for large VLBA projects

Engineering Task

  • [SSA-7591] - WS Support: Ingest SEIP_parameter.list as a separate ancillary product
  • [SSA-7606] - WS Support: Ancillary file extension Fix
  • [SSA-7621] - isolate & extract tap-server, embetter it
  • [SSA-7653] - AUDI Ingestion issue for Request 1142352135
  • [SSA-7672] - VLBA indexer cronjob not running hourly

Feature

  • [SSA-7574] - select one, then all, behavior change
  • [SSA-7575] - select all displayed functionality
  • [SSA-7627] - Remove Legacy Archive label and link from ALL HEADERS in the new archive

Bug

  • [SSA-7436] - service throws 502 errors for huge VLBA projects
  • [SSA-7497] - address radius issue with standard position searches


Release Notes - 4.2.2 - 2023.03.30

Research Request

  • [WS-1398] - where are the missing ALMA calibrations?

Bug

  • [WS-1329] - AUDI requests will not validate consistently in velocity space
  • [WS-1346] - Mark4 files with 0 length getting added to new archive metadata
  • [WS-1410] - Errors encounter intermittently with repeated TAP quieries
  • [WS-1539] - Project identification for ALMA calibration ingestion

Story

  • [WS-1327] - As a scientist, I would like legacy VLA data deliveries not to be in directories one level deeper than an SDM
  • [WS-1328] - As a scientist, I would like to see all the ALMA calibrations
  • [WS-1330] - As a product owner, I want the archive UI to send basic downloads to Workspaces
  • [WS-1334] - As a user, I do not want a file number limit
  • [WS-1335] - As a user, I want to be able to batch download of calibration tarballs
  • [WS-1338] - As a user, I want to be able to save to other network mounted drives than lustre ones
  • [WS-1516] - As a user, I want to see a visual indication in the UI that an image is proprietary
  • [WS-1540] - Check for Only MOUSes for calibrations
  • [WS-1541] - Screen out ARI-L Project Calibrations


Release Notes - 4.2.2.1 - 2023.04.12

Bug

  • [WS-1676] - Fix FilesetID handling in RH

Release Notes - 4.2.3 - 2023.06.07

Bug

  • [WS-1759] - VLBA Reingestion AMQP timeout
  • [WS-1797] - Close files from CASA log raiding
  • [WS-1844] - wget on ALMA download is missing ASDMBinary directories

Story

  • [WS-1282] - As an operations manager, I would like AUDI (and subsequently VUDI) to be able to run on a CASA+pipeline version different from the archive default
  • [WS-1372] - As an operations manager, I want to retain workflow progress visibility for converted AAT and VLASS workflows
  • [WS-1593] - As a user, I would like to see array configuration information in the TAP server returns
  • [WS-1796] - Add additional default values to AUDI parameters
  • [WS-1801] - As a product owner, I would like AUDI ingest to work with the new self-calibration products
  • [WS-1842] - Upgrade AAT/PPI utilities and deployment to python 3.10
  • [WS-1843] - wget calls failing with memory errors


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