v1.0.0

• The pipeline has been ported to work with CASA 5+ versions, and works with latest version available v5.4
• It can calibrate spectral line data.
• It can calibrate all frequency bands: C, L and K band.
• Accepts pseudo wideband processing (C-band data from 4.5 to 7.5 GHz).
• Pipeline can search for observatory logs of slewing antennas and flag off-source visibilities.
• Multiprocessing CASA (mpicasa) working properly.
• The weblog includes a summary page with real-time information of steps executed, main parameters and access to all processing and calibration parameters used.
• Add-on script under development to self-calibrate sources processed with the pipeline.
• Implemented automatic Lovell dropout scans detection and flagging.
• The pipeline accepts models of the structure of the phase calibrators.
• Added possibility to use any flux calibrator and to set the flux manually.
• New autoflagging procedures (TFCROP, and optionally RFLAG) during calibration.
• Use phase solution tables to flag calibrator visibilities.
• More complete plots of calibration tables.
• Pipeline can correct phase centre of sources, or generate new phase centres for other sources in the FoV.

v0.6

The eMCP can do:

• Import fits data and generate a summary weblog (basic information, uvplots, elevation, listobs, etc.).
• Prepare MS: hanning, separate spectral line data, autoflag with aoflagger, a-priori and manual flags, average.
• You can produce amplitude and phase plots against time and frequency and inspect them in the weblog.
• Calibration of continuum data. Delay, bandpass, phase, phase jitter, amplitude, fluxscale, bandpass with spectral index.
• Produces caltables plots and plots of corrected data (accessible via the weblog).
• Two more runs of autoflagging (tfcrop using bandpass calibration, and rflag after calibration).

Additional features:

• Can find best antennas to be use as refant.
• Can deal with Lo drop out scans (not observing phase calibrator) by modifying the calibration tables.
• Can use more than one bandpass calibrators.

CASA 5.1 and fringefit

This version breaks from versions v0.4 because it requires CASA v5.1+, and it is not compatible with CASA v4.7. Other changes are:

• Support to use fringefit when it is available in CASA v5.3 (not used for the moment).
• New aoflagger strategies.
• Improved msinfo management.
• Now it is possible to execute the pipeline from a CASA session.

eMCP basic functionality, continuum calibration

Merge pull request #56 from e-merlin/monitoring1

Monitoring1