NRAO VLA Archive Survey Development

This wiki documents ongoing work on the NRAO VLA Archive Survey software and data.

Goals

Finish imaging and validating all VLA continuum data from 1982 to March 2006.

Logs

• Dates loaded: LoadedLog.txt
• Recent activity: ActivityLog.txt

Current Status

Jared

• Continue loading data until all data between 1982 and March 2006 have been processed.
• Continue 1st-stage validation of processed data, as it becomes available.
• Continue cleaning up left-over data from pipeline processes that fail.

Lorant

• Perform 2nd-stage validation of data that gets flagged during the 1st stage.
• Address data sets that caused the pipeline to crash. Jared maintains a list of these data at /users/jcrossle/pipeline/cleanUp/nvasFail.txt .
• Verify that all data have been included in survey. (Some files may have been missed due to computer or human error.)

Data Products

All data products produced by the NVAS pipeline, and their location are described here, NvasDataProducts.

Software Bugs

Data Loading

A locked (proprietary) file causes ArchPreps to die

A locked (proprietary) file causes Arch_Preps.pm to die. Example: 1984Jan17, AH0999. Fix this bug so it does not kill Arch_Preps, or leave it as is? As is, it shows the user where the locked file is. At a minimum the error message should be changed to indicate that the file is locked.

logReader output jargon

Jared might want to update logReader to output table headers that make more sense to Lorant. The currently output table headers have been a source of confusion. This is a low priority bug, since redundant processing is no longer a significant problem.