2024-03-01 Meeting notes

Agenda

• News

• Program Administration 
• Project Management
  • official closeout date for SRDP project
    • Main issue is reporting to TB, but we now also have regular ops reports. Maybe official wind-up of project should be with the Fall 2024 pipeline release (Oct 24)? Need to discuss with AR.
• Project RADIAL
• Science Ready Data Products
  
  • Stephan working on 5 yr SSA plan, will include both new capabilities for SRDP and VLASS and also support of streamlined/automated QA. Need to make sure this process continues with his successor. 
    
    • Timeline for cal+img capability (and implications for ops).
  • ~1-10% of early legacy (mostly pre-1986) VLA projects cannot be read into CASA. Bryan and John investigating.
  • Intermittent NAASC lustre issues for AUDI & restores.
  • Statement on what we mean by 'SRDP'
    • The science readiness of a dataset is science-ready will depend on the science goals of individual users. The data from SRDP services are expected to be immediately usable for science and produce scientifically valid results in the supported modes, but data products may not be 'fully-optimized' for all the science users may perform.

      possible additional sentence: That is to say that expert users may be able to obtain superior results with careful manual processing and imaging, versus the automatic calibration and imaging pipelines.

• VLASS
  • Pipeline testing - almost complete?
  • HPG testing
  • IAU - ML going, put in abstract for sky survey theme in Div J (galaxies & cosmology)
• CIRADA
  • Told the CIRADA management committee that we will probably not complete our in-kind contribution (catalogs and convolved coarse cubes) by Dec 31st 2024 when the project wraps up. Likely we can continue to contribute for another 12 months though, which should suffice.
• AOB
  • Next AI/ML meeting mid- to late-March, focus on VLASS imaging.