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ALMA MEMO #473

AIPS++ Reuse Analysis Test: Report on Phase II


J. Pety1,2, A. Baker3, A. Coulais2, F. Gueth¹, D. Shepherd4, L. Testi5, C. Wilson6

Support by D. Broguiere1, K. Golap2, R. Lucas1, G. Moellenbrock4, W. Young4

1 IRAM (France), 2 LERMA, Observatoire de Paris (France)
3 MPE, Garching (Germany), 4 NRAO (USA)
5 INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy), 6 McMaster University (Canada)

2003-03-10



Keywords: Offine, Software, Science, Calibration, Imaging

The "AIPS++ Reuse Analysis Test" has been designed to address the ability of AIPS++ to be adapted to the needs of the ALMA reduction software. It has been divided into three parts:

Phase I Implementation of PdBI (Plateau de Bure Interferometer) calibration engines inside AIPS++;

Phase II Test of the calibration extensions implemented in Phase I and of the native AIPS++ capabilities (in particular, imaging capabilities) on a fair sample of PdBI data sets by a panel of testers outside the AIPS++ team;

Phase III Benchmarking of AIPS++ on ALMA-size data sets using the calibration extensions implemented in Phase I.

This report addresses every aspect linked to Phase II. Section 2 details the findings on the test charge as seen from Phase II. Section 3 is a collection of recommendations to the AIPS++ project. These findings and recommendations follow naturally from the experience gained during Phase II, which is summarized in Appendix A. In all sections of this appendix, the text gives only the mean of a response sample whose dispersion is sometimes large. We thus encourage the reader to go through all the questionnaires available in Appendices B through H, to obtain an idea of the full range of feedback.


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Last modified: 2003-10-29

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