Congratulations Jan-Willem on Assistant Scientist appointment
Congratulations Pam and Kumar on Star awards
Kana leaving NRAO in October - Joe Masters will be new Pipeline Lead
CNGI Framework Trade Study Report - this week
CASA 6 Initial Release - Documentation, examples, tutorial development
Development
Calibration and Flagging
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Imaging
Issues found by recent ALMA tests :
CAS-12433/CAS-12432 : Issues at freq-chunk edges. In validation
CAS-12550 : perchanweightdensity=False (i.e. old behaviour) is ok in 5.4 but seg-faults sometimes for 5.5/5.6. (pending)
PIPE-375 : 'inf' restoring beams from stripy PSFs. CAS-12559 fixed one part. Script provided to pipeline team for heuristics if needed. In validation.
PIPE-387 : Efforts ongoing to reproduce error. Only CB can still make it fail.
CASA 5.6 dev items
ARD-25 / CAS-12563 : In Validation. [ pointing corrections for VLASS + bug fixes + tests ]: VLASS tests (validation) are OK. mem bugs fixed and functional verification tests pass. ALMA test passed.
CAS-9621 : scalebias for mtmfs + improvement for multiscale (validation and bug fix)
Data Visualization
CAS-12408/12457 : Plotms fixes ( PR issued )
Import / Export
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Infrastructure
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Simulation
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CASA 6
There is a new blocker for running tclean in parallel under CASA6. imageconcat is a requirements for tclean running in parallel, as it uses its binary to produce the concatenated images.
Build / Testing
Infrastructure
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Unit
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Verification
cas-12424 : Test framework code ready for python 2.7 and also working with Tom Booth's first ALMA stakeholder test.
The automated tests keep reporting a failure in "pipelineTest_vla". Who/what ? Brian Kent
Working on test cases for replacement tasks for uvcontsub
Validation
5.6 validation list:
NEED VALIDATION:
CAS-12433 tclean with chunks has discrepant PB, restoringbeam, and spectrum at edges of subimages, branch needs merge from master to include CAS-12434 fix
CAS-12457 plotms axis range issues (parent ticket for four sub-tickets), one more build coming with fix to plotms crash
CAS-12493 Extend fringefit calibration table to make space for a dispersive term
CAS-12485 Add options for weighting in fringe fitter least-squares solver
CAS-9621 tclean : Improvements to Multiscale CLEAN and add 'scalebias' option to MTMFS CLEAN, testing report back on Friday and needs attention
CAS-12545 Fix some of the importvla bugs identified in CASR-416, needs some validation, requested by Juergen/Nick Ferraro (?)
CAS-6747 calculate/transfer bandpass solutions in RF and IF space
ARD-25 / CAS-12563 AWProject ticket, what is the status of VLASS testing?
CAS-11552 variable nchan w/ combine='spw' in gaincal, likely to need more extensive testing than just bug fix testing
ONLY NEED DOCUMENTATION UPDATES:
CAS-12148 Serious issue with explicit setting of restoringbeam parameter in tclean
CAS-12528 Add CalAntennaSolution changes to ASDM code as requested by the VLA
CAS-9108 Linear basis-specific 'Xf' (multi-scan) improvements
CAS-9106 Migrate qufromgain (python) to gaincal
CAS-12495 image sideband atmospheric curve in plotms
THINGS STILL COMING (?)
CAS-12395 makePSF in hifa_imageprecheck unacceptably slow - implementation of rectangular convolution function -- currently in verification, but I assume PLWG wants this in 5.6; pinged ticket (maybe not going in for 5.6 after all?)
Wideband mosaic commissioning: CAS-11191, CAS-12220, CAS-12223 (others?) --> to 5.7
CAS-12550 segfault when perchanweightdensity=False for mosaic dataset