GBT K-Band Focal Plane Array Science and Data Pipeline Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2007



Introduction

This is a workspace to facilitate the organization of the GBT K-Band Focal Plane Array Science and Data Pipeline Workshop, Nov 26 - 28, 2007.

Conference Schedule

Monday, November 26th

Time Presenter Topic
8:30   Welcome/Introduction
8:40 White Overview of the KFPA project
9:10 Maddalena The GBT at K Band
9:40 Lockman Science with the KFPA
10:00 Break
10:15 Remijan Chemistry with the KFPA
10:45 Taylor Continuum polarimetry
11:15 Wagg High-redshift studies with the KFPA
11:45 Brogan Molecular clouds and star formation
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Brogan Molecular clouds and star formation - discussion
2:30 Mangum Observing modes and array configuration
3:00 Pisano Discussion on configuration
3:30 Break
4:00 Maddalena Discussion on calibration
4:15 Minter Discussion on polarimetry
5:00 Lockman The KFPA and future GBT instrumentation

Tuesday, November 27th

Time Presenter Topic
8:30 Lockman Recap of previous day's science discussions
8:40 Garwood State of GBT data reduction software
8:50 Pipeline talks
8:50 Crossley Pipeline basics and VLA pipeline, see also notes
9:10 Cotton OBIT
9:40 Gopal/Heyer The FCRAO OTFTool
10:10 Break
10:25 Willis Design and Implementation of the ACSIS Real-Time Data Reduction Pipeline
10:55 Zwart/Tilanus HARP Data Pipeline and LOFAR Real-Time Pipeline
11:30 Taylor/Dever GALFACTS Pipeline
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Pipeline Demos Same order as talks - not all pipelines will have a demo. Keep demos short. Will include a demo of Livedata if time allows.
2:00   Key Requirements
3:00 Break
3:15   Calibration
4:15   Polarimetry
4:45   Algorithms
6:00 Dinner

Wednesday, November 28th

Time Presenter Topic
8:30 Garwood Review of yesterday's progress and unresolved issues
9:00   Technical Hurdles
10:00 Break
10:15   Non-technical Hurdles
11:00   The User Experience
12:00 Lunch
1:00   Data Formats (throughout pipeline and final)
2:00   Archiving
3:00 Break
3:15   Data Visualization
3:15 Tilanus Demo of GAIA. Other unique visualization tools could be demoed here if there is interest.
4:30   Where do we go from here?

Notes:
  • Pipeline talks will be short talks (30 minutes including discussion) on the basics of the various pipelines represented here (including lessons learned)
  • Pipeline demos will be a session of short (10-15 minute) demos of the pipelines represented here. A demo might simply be a set of snapshots.
  • A tour of the GBT will happen at some point. It takes about 2 hours. The paired maintenance days this week are Tuesday/Thursday and Wednesday/Friday. If the only available day is Thursday, then the tour will happen Thursday morning.
  • There will be an informal session on Thursday, November 29th, to flesh out as much of the proposed GBT KFPA data pipeline as possible based on the discussions held the previous 3 days.

Participants

Name Affiliation
Crystal Brogan NRAO
Bill Cotton NRAO
Jared Crossley NRAO
Jeff Dever U. Calgary
Bob Garwood NRAO
Mike Hollis GSFC
Jay Lockman NRAO
Ron Maddalena NRAO
Mike McCarty NRAO
Karen O'Neil NRAO
D.J. Pisano NRAO
Larry Morgan NRAO
Richard Prestage NRAO
Tony Remijan NRAO
Amy Shelton NRAO
Russ Taylor U. Calgary
Remo Tilanus JCMT
Jeff Wagg NRAO
Tony Willis NRC/DRAO
Walther Zwart JCMT

In addition, Mark Heyer and Gopal Narayana (FCRAO) and Tim Jenness (JCMT) will be participating remotely when possible as will a number of NRAO employees at the AOC and CV.

Data Pipeline Discussion Topics

This section has been moved to it's own wiki and organized to align with the discussion topics on the agenda for Tuesday and Wednesday. Note that these cover all aspects of the data processing problem and so to some extent many of these are independent of the any automatic processing (a pipeline).

KFPA Data Processing Issues

AOC & CV conference rooms

  • AOC
    • 11/26
      • Auditorium (except from 10-11 AM MST, during lunch in GB)
    • 11/27
      • 317 up to 9:30 AM MST
      • 280 11 AM MST to end of day
    • 11/28 - no rooms available.
  • CV
    • 230 except during TUNA on 11/27 and after 3 PM on 11/28, when it will move to CV-aud.
  • Viewing the video stream. You should be able to do this from most PCs. This will not allow you to participate but can be used during the times when no remote rooms are available. NRAO participants should talk to your local system administrators for instructions and help in setting this up. Non-NRAO participants who wish to try this should e-mail BobGarwood. People on the NRAO network can follow this link to the internal wiki for the URL and phone for remote participation.

"To Do" List & Notes

Topic attachments
I AttachmentSorted ascending Action Size Date Who Comment
RemijanKbandFPATalk2007.pptppt RemijanKbandFPATalk2007.ppt manage 2 MB 2007-11-26 - 17:26 BobGarwood Remijan
CalibrationKaArray.pptppt CalibrationKaArray.ppt manage 40 K 2007-11-26 - 17:23 BobGarwood Calibration discussion
GBT_at_K-Band.pptppt GBT_at_K-Band.ppt manage 236 K 2007-11-26 - 17:20 BobGarwood Ron Maddalena
GBTDataReductionSummary.pdfpdf GBTDataReductionSummary.pdf manage 49 K 2007-11-26 - 22:56 BobGarwood Garwood Talk
heyer_nrao_kband_workshop.pdfpdf heyer_nrao_kband_workshop.pdf manage 4 MB 2007-11-23 - 16:40 BobGarwood Heyer/Narayanan Talk
KB-FPA.pdfpdf KB-FPA.pdf manage 2 MB 2007-11-26 - 17:25 BobGarwood KB-FPA
kfpa_brogan_sf1.pdfpdf kfpa_brogan_sf1.pdf manage 1 MB 2007-11-26 - 16:11 CrystalBrogan Brogan Galactic Star Formation
kfpa_brogan_sf1.pptppt kfpa_brogan_sf1.ppt manage 8 MB 2007-11-26 - 17:25 BobGarwood Brogan
KFPA_GB_Nov07.pptppt KFPA_GB_Nov07.ppt manage 9 MB 2007-11-26 - 17:26 BobGarwood Wagg Talk
pipeline_basics_notes.pdfpdf pipeline_basics_notes.pdf manage 69 K 2007-11-27 - 08:26 BobGarwood Pipeline Basics Notes
pipeline_basics.pptppt pipeline_basics.ppt manage 948 K 2007-11-27 - 08:25 BobGarwood Pipeline Basics
SDWWorkshop.pptppt SDWWorkshop.ppt manage 576 K 2007-11-26 - 17:27 BobGarwood White talk
the_vla_pipeline_notes.pdfpdf the_vla_pipeline_notes.pdf manage 72 K 2007-11-27 - 08:25 BobGarwood VLA Pipeline notes
willis_acsis.pdfpdf willis_acsis.pdf manage 848 K 2007-11-26 - 15:50 BobGarwood Willis Talk
Topic revision: r28 - 2009-10-19, CarolynWhite
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