Agenda

CASA/JIVE VLBI Coordination Meeting

2019 December 11 @ 1500UTC

Logistics

• Future Meeting dates (usually last Wed of the month):
  
  • NEXT MEETING: 2019 Jan 22 (1500UTC)? (one week early)
  • 2019 February 26?
  • 2019 March 25?

General Admin

• Recent/upcoming meetings:
  • Space VLBI 2020 in Charlottesville, VA (2020 Jan 28-30)
• CASA Newsletter: contribution re EHT from Michael Janssen, via Ilse; coordinated by Bjorn
  • Distributed 2019 Nov 21
• Helpdesk access from JIVE ok?
• New CASA git repository. See: casa6 Any issues?
• Current VLBI Integration branch: CAS-12325
  • Will make new VLBI integration branch from new repository soon, modulo items that move out of CAS-12325 in current work
• (Mark) Requirements collation ConsolidatedRequirements....Any news?
• Work plan describing how/when CASA can replace AIPS (FY2020 NRAO/DMS Program Operating Plan)
• Other admin?

Development/Features

• Items for CASA 5.7/6.1 (Stakeholder inputs).
  
  • NB: Feature freeze: 2019 Dec 15, some work trickling into January
  • (George, CAS-695) Support correlation-dependent flagging, with user option.
  • (George, CAS-12735) Frequency meta-info consolidiation (see also CAS-12553)
  • (Mark/George, CAS-12591) spwmap fix
  • (Des, CAS-12365,12653) Deploy dispersive term solve, including user term control
  • (George/Des, CAS-xxxxx) Convert CC tables to image or ComponentList for resolved model-setting
  • (Mark, CAS-8546) GAINCURVE definition, deployment of standardization (deployment --> 5.8/6.2)
  • (Des, CAS-12765) Wide bandwidth (deployment in CASA --> 5.8/6.2)
• Items for future cycles (future stakeholders discussions should include these items, at least):
  • (George) Per-scan interpolation option?
  • (George) Overlapping solution intervals (CASR-467, CASR-468)?
  • (Mark) EOP. (Any news from Mark's Australia discussion w/ Deller/Brisken?)
  • (Des/George) PCAL (Des has ad hoc scripts, need updated prioritization from VLBA since this is not a high EVN priority)
  • (George) Polarization calibration w/ resolved calibrators
  • (Des) CAS-12485? fringefit weighting control (test data options pending)
  • (Des) Baseline stacking?
  • Opacity for high-frequency VLBI, derived from Tsys(sec(z))
  • TEC
  • (Walter) Advanced VLBA Amplitude calibration a la Walker memo from a few years ago?
    • Bandpass normalization flexibility: voltage vs. power

Verification/Validation/Documentation

• (Mark) MS concat bugfix on casacore github to CASA?

AOB?