ALMA MEMO #472

AIPS++ Reuse Analysis Test: Report on Phase I

A. Kemball, K. Golap, G. Moellenbrock (NRAO)
R. Lucas, D. Broguiere (IRAM)

2003-09-10

This report describes the results of testing to assess the ability of AIPS++ to be adapted to the needs of the ALMA reduction software. Specifically:
1) how can AIPS++ be adapted to reduce data of an instrument for which it was not designed,
2) how long is the learning curve for developers who have sufficient experience in the processing of millimeter data, but no experience at all of the AIPS++ programming environment, and 3) can we perform an end-to-end experiment on actual, real-life millimeter-wave spectroscopic data? This report describes the course of implementation for these tests and the final results and conclusions.

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