To: "aips2-alma@zia.aoc.NRAO.EDU" Bug/Enhancement update as of 04mar03: ========================================================= ========================================================= Bugs and enhancements found during Phase II testing - not fixed yet: ========================================================= BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04264: ALMA: flagger chokes when flagging iram dataset STATUS: SUBMITTED 14jan03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 14jan03 STATUS - high priority, Currently testing private version. BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04303: ALMA: ALMA: iramcal functions can't abort due to lack of id() STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - high priority, not fixed yet. QUIT function was added so you can now abort out of interactive flux operations. you can also type in a name that is not a calibrator and flux will kick you out without damage. BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04309: ALMA: iramcal.rf plots appear to have wrong error bars STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - high priority, not fixed yet ENHANCEMENT: AIPS++ defect AOCso04310: ALMA: iramcal.phcor should plot alma-flag-corr-row corrections STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to kgolap on 3feb03 STATUS - would be nice, not incorporated yet. BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04329: Submitted by George Moellenbrock: two problems: The almati2ms filler has two problems: 1. Offset direction (as in mosaicing) are not properly filled - FIXED 2. The antenna positions are not rotated out of the local coord sys. STATUS: SUBMITTED 10feb03 STATUS - Offset direction problem fixed Antenna positions not fixed (plotting error only) BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04372: imagr: 1st mask image of a mosaic is not correct STATUS: SUBMITTED 03mar03 BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04373: imagr: setimage GUI inputs do not remain fixed STATUS: SUBMITTED 03mar03 BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04374: imagr: clicking on 'Done with masking' too fast freezes GUIs STATUS: SUBMITTED 03mar03 BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04375: imageconcat: doesn't know spectral axis in a cube STATUS: SUBMITTED 03mar03 BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04375: imagr.weight will not weight mosaics correctly STATUS: SUBMITTED 03mar03 BUG:AIPS++ defect AOCso04386: The documentation describing how to control the multi-field mosaicing options is not adequate. STATUS: SUBMITTED 04mar03 ENHANCEMENT: AIPS++ defect AOCso04387: The threshold for which each channel is CLEANed down to is governed by the channel with the brightest emission. This is fine for most VLA data but not for PdBI data where there may not be adequate $uv$ coverage. In the HH 288 mosaic the brightest emission was in a channel that could not be adequately cleaned due to significant missing flux. I requested that the logic for defining the CLEANing threshold in each channel be modified to account for this problem. STATUS: SUBMITTED 04mar03 ========================================================= ========================================================= Fixed problems: ========================================================= BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04300: ALMA: iramcal.flux doesn't work when spwid changed in an obs. STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - high priority, fixed RESOLVED BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04301: ALMA: iramcal.flux doesn't do flag weights properly when calculating ant efficiency STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - high priority, fixed RESOLVED BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04302: ALMA: iramcal.rf typo in name field causes strange behavior STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - high priority, fixed RESOLVED BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04306: ALMA: iramcal.phcor gave an error when running from glish STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - FIXED RESOLVED BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04307: ALMA: iramcal should not produce plots with flagged data - lower priority STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - FIXED RESOLVED Phase transfer from 3mm to 1mm fixed for data that has phase wrapping (e.g. 25mar97 GG Tau data). RESOLVED During Phase II testing it was found that, for data with rapid phase decorrelation, the visnorm=T option in the RF function did not work as well as expected. The (generic) aips++ calibrater tool (called by iramcalibrater) was modified so that time-averaged data passed to the solver (e.g., B) will be more robust with respect to coherence loss. RESOLVED BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04261: ALMA: iramcalib.flux won't abort STATUS: SUBMITTED 14jan03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 15jan03 STATUS - high priority, Kumar will add a 'quit' option in flux should be ready by 12feb03. RESOLVED and tested on 11feb03 BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04282: ms.concatinate crashes aips++ upon GUI selection (affects ALMA Ph II testing when testers must concatinate multiple data sets to make the final images). STATUS: SUBMITTED 21jan03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 21jan03 STATUS - high priority, problem is reproducible in GUI, works from Glish command line. RESOLVED on 11feb03 BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04299: ALMA: iramcal can't choose 3mm USB to reduce STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - high priority, fix put into glish, needs to be added to the GUI inputs. RESOLVED and tested on 11feb03 BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04304: ALMA: ALMA: iramcal.flux 'fixed' parameter doesn't work in GUI mode STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - high priority, not fixed yet. Workaround: Don't used fixed paramter in interactive mode. RESOLVED and tested on 11feb03 BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04305: ALMA: iramcal.flux needs a stop/abort button STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to kgolap on 3feb03 STATUS - high priority, quit option being added. RESOLVED and tested on 11feb03 ENHANCEMENT: AIPS++ defect AOCso04311: ALMA: iramcal functions should be able to choose the ref ant STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 RESOLVED - fixed 19feb03 BUG: bug fix in flux: weights had been fixed before, but some weight=0 data was still passing through if you flagged aggressively in msplot, and this led to fluxes and efficiencies = 'nan'. This is now be fixed. BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04312: ALMA: iramcal.flux should be able to limit time range STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 RESOLVED 19feb03 ENHANCEMENT: flux plot now saved along with other plots BUG: rms listing files from phase and amp now not overwritten by second band processed. You can do each step for each band in parallel. ENHANCEMENT: For iramcal.rf, now you have 2 new parameters: degphase and degamp...these are polynomial degree that you want to be fitted to your band for phase and amplitude respectively. The defaults are 12 and 6 and they work well for phase 1 data and some phase 2 data but some larger bands may need larger degrees in phase. BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04314: ALMA: iramcal GSPLINE solution intervals should be by user choice - lower priority STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - fixed ENHANCEMENT: For iramcal.phase: the rawspw now can take multiple spw (subbands) from the 3mm band...(instead of only one). For now it will work only for multiple bands that come from only 1 side band (e.g all your continuum subbands from 3mm-LSB) ENHANCEMENT: For iramcal.phase: there are now 2 new parameters: npointaver (default npointaver=10) and phasewrap (default phasewrap='250deg'). These are to help when the phase data gets very bouncy between 180deg and -180deg. npointaver determines how many points are averaged before doing a comparison with the next npointaver if the difference is larger that the phasewrap value. If the difference is larger it'll try to move all subsequent point (from the point it is in time) by 360 degrees. BUG: iramcal.flux has a new parameter: numchancont (default numchancont=64) Flux uses the continuum subbands to do its calculations and it uses the number of channels to look for these spectralwindows (subbands). We've realized that in some observations (e.g Leonardo's) the continuum bands have a different number of channels from 64 (which was what phase 1 data had). So if the continuum subbands have a different number of channels from 64, put the right value there to help flux find these. BUG: Offset directions (for mosaicing) were not properly filled. STATUS: CLIC FITS writer \& AIPS++ ALMA filler fixed by Dominique BUG: MEM crashed when deconvolution was started on this mosaic. STATUS: FIXED ========================================================= ========================================================= Minor bugs or enhancement requests that will be fixed in the long term. Due to lack of time before the PDR, these items will probably not be corrected in the next week in time for Phase II testing. If any of these bugs causes data processing problems (rather than minor annoyance) please contact me or the AIPS++ team so the problem can be made a higher priority. ========================================================= BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04260: ALMA: almatifiller returns F, not T, when finished (minor annoyance) STATUS: SUBMITTED 14jan03 ASSIGNED to kgolap on 15jan03 STATUS - low priority BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04267: Clean says it did not reach threshold when it did (a minor annoynance for ALMA Ph II testers) STATUS: SUBMITTED 14jan03 ASSIGNED to kgolap on 15jan03 STATUS - low priority BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04308: ALMA: iramcal.phcor - 05may98 data has an error - lower priority STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - low priority, doesn't seem to affect data BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04313: ALMA: iramcal should make first look plots - lower priority STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - low priority BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04315: msplot locate should suppress 'no data found' warnings. STATUS: SUBMITTED 3feb03 (requested by Chris Wilson) ASSIGNED to gmoellen on 3feb03 STATUS - low priority BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04388: ALMA: iramcal.flux ant efficiencies report wrong error estimates STATUS: SUBMITTED 04mar03 BUG: AIPS++ defect AOCso04389: ALMA: iramcal.phase: flagged data causes solutions to be wrong STATUS: SUBMITTED 04mar03 ENHANCEMENT: AIPS++ defect AOCso04390: ALMA: ALMA: please provide a summary of the total calibration process STATUS: SUBMITTED 04mar03