Agenda

Minutes in Bold

CASA/JIVE VLBI Coordination Meeting

2019 August 21 @ 1400UTC

Logistics

• Future Meeting dates (usually last Wed of the month):
  
  • NEXT Meeting: 2019 Oct 30, 1400 UTC
  • 2019 Nov 27? (Will probably revise due to Thanksgiving, vacations, etc.)

General Admin

• CASA 5.6.0 released 2019 Aug 08
  
  • CASA 6.0 pending
  • CASA 5.6.1 / ALMA pipeline release pending (mid-September)
• EHT-related article planned for next newsletter, ~October
  
  • Contribution from Michael Janssen, via Ilse
• (Mark) EHT polarization workshop: report
  • Workshop utilized EHTimager, LPCAL (AIPS), and Ivan Marti-Vidal's python version of LPCAL with CASA.
  • Data with parang already corrected, so not conditioned for standard CASA polarimetry processing.
  • Should discuss migration of Marti-Vidal's python LPCAL (resolved calibrator polarization fitting) into standard CASA
  • Mark has made some fixes in exportuvfits for mount types (for parallactic angle calculation).
• Justin Linford now in Socorro (VLBA)
  • VLBA Stakeholder presence
• (Ryan) CASA Next Generation Infrastructure
  • Trade study ~complete
  • Conceptual Design Review pending (~September)
  • Recently attended scipy conference; dask, python data frames
• George/Ryan to ADASS in Groningen Oct 7-11
  • George to JIVE Oct 12-16ish. Will discuss several items enumerated below.
  • Des to present VLBI poster. Other JIVE presentations include MS plotting and integrating CASA with Jupyter notebooks.
• Other admin?

Development/Features

• (Mark) Requirements collation ConsolidatedRequirements....Any news?
  • Living document, Mark adding text periodically
• VLBI Integration branch: CAS-12325
• Items for CASA 6.0
  • (Mark) fringefit task: coordinating with Bob Garwood. Ok?
  • Mark waiting for reply from Bob. Still time to finish up
• Stakeholder inputs for CASA 5.7/6.1
  • See VLBI section
  • George has added notes. Will add some derived items to actual 5.7/6.1 delivery plan at: CASA 5.7/6.1
  • Glendenning has requested VLBI work plan describing how/when CASA can replace AIPS (needed sometime during FY2020)
• Items for CASA 5.7/6.1 (need CAS tickets for many of the following)
  • (George) Support correlation-dependent flagging, with user option (CAS-695). (High 5.7 priority for GM)
  • (Mark) Spectral-line / astrometry support
    • Fringe fitting on a single channel (or multiple channels with delay turned off) (CAS-12553)
      • With a bit more work to refine, will deliver for 5.7.
    • Spectral window mapping issues (CAS-12591)
      • George to investigate caltable portability aspect of this issue further (5.7)
      • Also refFreq issues (will discuss in October, or before)
    • Updated EOP corrections
      • Ongoing investigation/development continues; should coordinate with fixvis, antpos and similar (Mark/George to discuss in October).
  • (Des) Dispersive term solve, including user control and an FFT-based option for estimating the dispersive term. (Work continues for 5.7)
    
    • Must exist in code by end of year (funding progress report)
  • (George/Des) Convert CC tables to image or ComponentList for resolved model-setting
    • George/Des to discuss/develop in October
  • (Des) CAS-12485? fringefit weighting control
    
    • Need good use case for testing/validation. Des exploring test data options at JIVE.
  • (Des) Wide bandwidth (Work continues for 5.7)
    
    • Must exist in code by end of year (funding progress report)
  • (Des) Baseline stacking
  • (George) Per-scan interpolation option?
  • (George) Overlapping solution intervals?
  • (Walter) Advanced VLBA Amplitude calibration a la Walker memo from a few years ago?
    • Bandpass normalization flexibility: voltage vs. power

Verification/Validation/Documentation

• (George) CAS-12591: CTPatchedInterp spectral window mapping bug (see above)
  
  • Needs further investigation.... I suspect this requires additional work addressing differing spw populations in MS and CalTable (portability)
• (Des) Michael Janssen has found a so-far unreproducible bug... Progress?
  • Related to peculiar GSL return codes....
• (Mark) Will soon commit data to DR for fringefit verification tests; also scripts. Will coordinate with Darrel and Ville.

AOB?