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Action items from the LBA operations meetings at perth - DRAFT

From: <Tasso.Tzioumis_at_email.protected>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:22:37 +1100

Hi everyone,

Attached is the draft of the action items from the LBA ops meetings
recently held at Perth.

Please let me know of any additions/corrections by 1 April 2009. I
will then revise and post on our web.

Thanks and cheers
Tasso

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Tasso Tzioumis, Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO
Location: Cnr Pembroke & Vimiera Rds, Marsfield, NSW, 2122, AUSTRALIA
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Email: Tasso.Tzioumis_at_csiro.<!--nospam-->au
URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~atzioumi/
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LBA Operations meeting. Curtin 12 March 2009.
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A: ACTIONS carried over or modified from Hobart 2008 meeting.
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ACTION 1 (old 6): Investigate/implement/document developments on polarisation calibration and
Cir-Linear polarisation conversion (Tasso/Richard)

ACTION 2 (old 7): LBA test-time for L-band feed at Ceduna (Tasso/Brett)

ACTION 3 (old 9): Investigate broadband feed developments e.g. Kildal feed (Jim)

ACTION 4 (old 17): Get Parkes Tsys calibration for each session (Tasso/JER)

B. New ACTIONS

ACTION 5: Investigation of self-cal/cacal modes with ATCA for phasing-up tied array.
ACTION 5a: Results of tests in Feb 09 (Richard/Tasso).
ACTION 5b: Check on recent TANAMI data (Hayley/Roopesh).
ACTION 5c: Incorporate CAL flags into SCHED and parse into atnf sched (Cormac)

ACTION 6: Separate disk pool from Swinburne. Need to get back ATNF disks and return Swinburne disks. (Claire)

ACTION 7: No buying of new disks. Develop network transfers to Curtin, either direct or via ARCS (All)

ACTION 8: Buy more Mk5 disks for use with Parkes/Tid/Hobart and establish LBA Mk5 disk pool. (Curtin)

ACTION 9: Investigate scheduling of short or long LBA sessions. Take into account Ceduna support and Tid TANAMI access (Phil/Tasso/Shinji)

ACTION 10: Improve checking during LBA observing sessions
ACTION 10a: Produce periodic checklists (~ every 3hrs) for each antenna. (All)
ACTION 10b: Implement SCHED flags for possible automatic fringe checking (Cormac/Chris)
ACTION 10c: Improve LBA network monitoring (Chris/Curtin)
ACTION 10d: Better training of observers (All)

ACTION 11: Improve Wiki documentation.
ACTION 11a: Document DAS modes at Parkes (Tasso/JER)
ACTION 11b: Document Hobart DAS modes and frequency setups (Jim)
ACTION 11c: Backup all DAS profiles into LBA ftp area (Chris/Tasso)
ACTION 11d: Enable LBA wiki external file attachments (Chris)

ACTION 12: Update of SCHED with new LBA parameters and setups. Test for July 09 LBA session. (Cormac)

ACTION 13: AT TAC recommended more time for VLBI due to high proposal pressure! (Phil/Tasso)

ACTION 14: Clarify LBA timing for public availability of data. (Phil/Tasso)

ACTION 15: Establish procedures for timely operation with external antennas and media.
ACTION 15a: Inform PIs of data transfer requirements in PI letters at schedule time (Phil/Tasso)
ACTION 15b: Sort out current data transfer issues with TIGO and O'Higgins. (Tasso/Hayley/Chris)
ACTION 15c: Investigate use of South American antennas (TIGO, O'Higgins, Fortaleza, Peru,...) with LBA, to compensate for loss of Hart. New MOUs? (Tasso)

ACTION 16: DIFX new version to produce IDI FITS. RPFITS compatibility needs to be retained. (ATNF/Curtin)

ACTION 17: ** Curtin to organise DiFX developers meeting (Cormac)

ACTION 18: Need to make LBA archive available online like ATOA.
ACTION 18a: ATNF to investigate cross-referencing LBA data from ATOA (Tasso)
ACTION 18b: Possible new software from new ICRAR positions (Steven)

ACTION 19: Next meeting in 2010. Possible synergies with IVS meeting in Hobart (2nd week of Feb 2010) or Summer school in NZ (Feb 2010). Liaise on timing and place (Tasso)
Received on 2009-03-27 16:22:58