GETTING START WITH SMA MIRIAD SOFTWARE



	AGENDA FOR SMA MIRIAD USERS' MEETING

	Miriad for handling hybrid ASIC & SWARM data & Imaging techniques 2016-07-18 Cyber-telecom meeting at HST 9:00am, PDT 12:00pm, MDT 1:00pm and EDT 3:00pm Highlight: Karma for SMA - Issue 2 SWARM for daul receivers - Issue 3 Patches for specific ASIC spectral configuration - Issue 4 Agenda: Issue 1 - Review of previous meetings since 2015 Fall September 11, 2015 September 28, 2015 October 05, 2015 November 09, 2015 November 23, 2015 December 07, 2015 January 11, 2016 February 22, 2016 March 28, 2016 May 09, 2016 June 13, 2016 Issue 2 - Karma for SMA *Karma 1.7.: Karma is a toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication, encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating and manipulating the Karma network data structure. It adapts Miriad and FITS formatted images. Links at The University of Calgary & ATNF Australia Installation at /home/miriad/karma Environment setting Function testing Issue 3 - SWARM for daul rx Miriad SMA-WB 3.3.0: Implement SWARM routine for daul rx Ready for SWARM data test Issue 4 - Patches for specific ASIC configurations Miriad SMA-WB 3.3.1: add a patch wbhq1patch for hybrid freq conf of ASIC correlator data Q1 SWARM (two sp chunks), separating SWARM data from the hybrid data configurations add a pacth for sorting out ASIC frequency configuration when the ASIC configured with random chunk channel resolutions along with many empty chunks and missing the ASIC sp chunk with the largest labelling number (s-48) Issue 5 - New scheme for continuum average E-mail communication from K Young No changes to online data format Issue 6 - Questions and Answers for SMA users Handling SMA Data Miriad -** Calibrations, imaging for continuum and spectral lines in general Imaging facility for submillimter and radio astronomy - Miriad - providing UVFITS for imaging elsewhere CASA AIPS Issue 7 - Development of New Imaging Technology Imaging technology from interdisciplines- physicis, nanoscience, biology and etc. Imaging algorithms & procedures - for radio/submillimeter interferometers and etc. Working progress