Agenda

CASA/JIVE VLBI Coordination Meeting

2020 Dec 9 @ 1500UTC

Logistics

  • Future Meeting dates (usually last Wed of the month):
    • 2021 Jan 20 @ 1500 UTC (a week earlier than nominal)
    • 2021 Feb 24?

General Admin

  • General Status w.r.t. Coronavirus measures
    • NRAO/ALMA:
      • NRAO in North America will continue to work@home for foreseeable future (well into 2021). Infections rates increasing across US; NM now worse than ever.
      • ALMA progressing with array restart plans, expected to take many months. Power to be restored to the high site Dec 10. Resume science observing in March 2021?
    • ASTRON/JIVE
      • Science/computing staff continuing work-at-home for now
  • CASA Release Schedule
    • CASA 5.7/6.1: Has been released (2020 Aug 20). Patch releases pending:
      • CASA 6.1.1 for ALMA PL being exercised; working on a repeatability issue
      • CASA 6.1.2/5.7.2 w/ polcal and tec fixes (VLASS, ALMA) nearly ready.
    • CASA 5.8/6.2: Development ongoing.
      • Should be wrapping up development ~now
      • Validation in progress, will continue into January. Release ~early February.
      • Tickets reviewed below...
  • Requirements collation: 2020 May 07 document / VLBA Costing/Prioritization (2020 May 21)
    • (George) TBD: Complete re-numbering to better align with prioritization exercise from May 2020 (Still thought necessary?)
    • (George, Justin) TBD: Need to forward Requirements Doc and prioritization to Jen Donovan-Meyer, as input to Stakeholder process for CASA 5.9/6.3. (see below)
  • (Ryan) CNGI/ngCASA Status:
  • Pending admin issues
    • DIY casa5 tarball build instructions can be found here
    • casa6 build issues: formal instructions for plotms, CASAshell, casa5/6 co-exist, c++ unit tests in casa6
  • Meetings/workshops of relevance
    • JIVE VLBI Workshop 2020 Nov 2-6. (virtual)
      • How did it go?
    • Ilse giving CASA/VLBI talk at Radio Camera Initiative Seminar Dec 11 @ 1600 UTC
  • Other admin?

Development

  • CASA 5.8/6.2:
    • JIRA (VLBI) Status
      • Notables:
      • (George) CAS-12735: Frequency meta-info (includes generalized fix for CAS-12553, and several other bug tickets)
        • Continued progress, been distracted by 6.1.1/6.1.2 in recent weeks. Committed to completing it!
      • (Des) CAS-12765 (wide-spaced spws): waiting for freq meta fix in CAS-12735
      • (Neal) CAS-13184): accor corrdepflags.
        • Assigned to Neal for verification blessing.
      • (Mark) CAS-8537: gain curve. Now in validation. Need to ping Jen.
        • (Mark) Test of gaincurve to use small dataset recently obtained by Justin: TL015
        • (Mark) TL015 revealed some importfitsidi bugs fixed in casacore
      • (Neal) CAS-12736 (revised accor test) Neal updating verificaiton tests with TL015 (found same trouble as Mark on gaincurve)
      • (Mark) CAS-12989 (eMerlin crosshands) Validation complete (Anita Richards). Need hard-to-get eMerlin dataset for proper verification test....
      • (Pam Ford) CAS-11318: Fringe-fitting solution plotting (incl. dispersive term) has been implemented in plotms!
      • (CAS-13056, CAS-13003, and possibly CAS-13005 to slip to next cycle)
  • CASA 6.3 prioritization
    • Justin collating high-priority items (see email dated 2020 Nov 19).
    • Due first week of January for CASA planning process (there will be a confluence page and JIRA filter, etc.)
  • Other development topics
    • (**Mark) Per-scan interpolation
    • (**Mark) AveragingTvi2 and FringeFitting
    • (**Des) NaNs in imported Tsys
    • CAS-12485: OTF weight munging for solve (Can we complete validation and deploy? Des seeking interested users at JIVE)
    • (Mark) VLBA pulsar binned data.... requires casacore fix to importfitsidi (PR pending, CAS- ticket pending)
    • (Mark) Generalized polarization basis conversion
    • (George/Justin) to coordinate initial testing on CASR-463 (TEC) to better characterize basic requirements (also CAS-13040 re TEC retrieval changes)

AOB?

Topic revision: r3 - 2020-12-08, GeorgeMoellenbrock
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