Overall status: C config; intense observing pressure in the 1200-2100 LST range; short week due to US Thanksgiving holiday (Thu-Fri) - we will suspend operations starting Wednesday evening and will resume observing early Friday morning (0000+ MST); Thursday will be used by the Canadian WIDAR group.
Key dates:
Pre 08Jan: Call for Proposals for February 2011 Call (first for new semester based system; tentative)
08-12 Jan: AAS with special NRAO sessions: Perley: 7 presentations scheduled for the EVLA special session.
Testing of 0.5, 0.25 second dumps out of the correlator; recirculation testing still ongoing; need any reports on missing sub-bands (not recently seen).
OPT 1.07 is on webtest undergoing testing (meeting today for anyone interested); planned update by 30 Nov. Problem in 1.06 with bulk edit of resource configurations; ongoing issues with performance.
CASA Update (new functionality available/issues/enhancements):Release continues to be immminent.
Concise list of deliverables for R3.2
AIPS Update (new functionality available/issues/enhancements): Eric is back;
SDM Update:
Added links to ASDM information off of home page:
Commissioning Reports
Observing recommendations update (Ops)
Notes: Use of OSRO dummy scans (for RSRO) dropped.
Groups moving forward; historical associations of scientists with groups was not accurate; please review the groups
and add your name as primary for those that you will be able to work on; we expect during this meeting to cover relevant details
for all members.
* Flagging*: Venkata: Autoflagging in CASA (Coming soon)
Polarization: Myers: Multi-band leakage/PA
Array: Dhawan/Rupen: RF switch tests with rapid monitoring; issue still affecting; being replaced as identified. Looking at acquiring new switches to solve the problem in the long term.
Commissioning Test Planning
High Frequency: Claussen: Weak calibrator tests (this week); needed.
Spectral Line: Momjian: Zeeman followup
Spectral Line: Dhawan: Follow-up on frequency offset phase jumps characterization.
Satoko Takahashi (POC: Juergen Ott); area(s): continuum, mosaicing; 10B-126 (AT380): A Millimeter Study of the Embedded Star-Cluster in the Orion Molecular Cloud.
Hauyu Liu (POC: Juergen Ott); area(s): continuum, mosaicing
Adam Leroy (POC: Ronin); area(s): post-processing/CASA; 10A-196 (AL746): Resolving the Starbursts in Nearby LIRGs and ULIRGs
Ken Kellerman/Amy Kimball: 10B-104
James Miller-Jones -back!
AOB
Misc Actions
[Frail/Butler]: Enable restrictions based on proximity to sun; review OST weather trending.
[McMullin/Frail]: %REDWrite up disposition of RR items.
[McMullin]: Confirm restriction of RSRO scan length at 90 s
[Owen]: Outline issue with 90s scan length restriction.
[McMullin]: Review/recover metrics for Priority 0 items.
[Perley/McMullin]: SPW/IF/BB lexicon and mapper
Development of WIDAR guidelines document (Michael)
List of known problems (can be used by OSRO commissioning team (van Moorsel)
Med Priority [Rupen]: X, Ku band subbands are inverted (IF 1 is labelled as IF4, IF2 as 3, IF3 as 2, IF 4 as 1). Noted that this had been tested but there were enough changes to warrant a re-do.
Med Priority [TBD]: Phase offsets within scans (phase jump at scan boundaries). R&L phase offset on some scans - probably L302 LO problem, needs tracking down. MR: Seen on EA07, EA25 (both RR and LL)
Med Priority [TBD]: Added. Phase change when frequency changes (needs to be tested).
Med Priority [TBD]: Anti-aliasing does not behave as advertised.
Low Priority [TBD]: First scan often bad.
Low Priority [TBD]: Phase (and amp) wobbles; long history.