Agenda

CASA/JIVE VLBI Coordination Meeting

2019 April 14 @ 1400UTC

Logistics

• Future Meeting dates (usually last Wed of the month):
  • 2019 May 29
  • 2019 Jun 26?
  • 2019 Jul 31?
  • 2019 Aug 28?

General Admin

• CASA 5.5
  
  • Release pending (VLASS and related imaging fixes in progress)
  • CASA 6.0 now to coincide with CASA 5.6
• CASA 5.6/6.0
  
  • Requirements process complete, see CASA 5.6 Confluence page
  • Feature freeze: 2019 Jun 07; for other dates, see Confluence page
  • (Mark) CASA 6 build environment?
• Other admin?

Verification/Validation/Documentation

• (Mark) Testing of fringe fitting with a model... status?
• (Mark) EVN archival data issue and importfitsidi... status?
• Other?

Development/Features

• (Mark) Requirements collation
  
  • Any news?
  • Link (also available on main VLBI Coord page): ConsolidatedRequirements
• (Mark) New integration branch...status?
• Items for CASA 5.6/6.0 development
  
  • (George) CASA 6 VLBI task interface verification
    • (Mark) fringefit task not present yet
  • (George) Look into correlation-dependent flagging issue (CAS-695)
  • (Walter) Advanced VLBA Amplitude calibration a la Walker memo from a few years ago
    • Bandpass normalization flexibility: voltage vs. power
  • (Des) Baseline stacking
  • (Des) Wide bandwidth and dispersive
    • Expand number of parameters in FringeJones table
  • (George) perscan interpolation option?
  • (George) consider overlapping solution intervals?

AOB?