GBT software improvements and extensions are a critical part of the KFPA project, which will enable important new scientific results to be obtained with the GBT and KFPA.
Pointing modes for KFPA (allowing specification of a single signal beam and reference beam). This would be the same type of data reduction as is currently done for all 2 beam receivers.
Receiver FITS file modifications for KFPA and other multi-feed Rxs
Data Pipeline Effort
We plan a revolutionary change in the standard method of GBT data reduction, starting with the KFPA project.
For a certain set of standard KFPA observing modes, the images will be automatically calibrated, gridded, merged and provided to the
observer. The development of this idea is presented below as a series of links to planning meetings.
To achieve automatic display and reduction of the KFPA images, we will need to make a number of improvements and extensions to the existing GBT software system.
Pipeline interface Directives to GBT observing system. (Allows setting Pipeline start/stop and mapping parameters such as map center, size, flagging and mapping techniques).