Daily Image
30-07-2014
LOFAR's Calibration & Imaging Tiger Team (CITT) reflects on a Year of Progress
| Submitter: | George Heald |
| Description: | About a year ago, a small group of expert developers was assembled in order to update the capability of the LOFAR Standard Imaging Pipeline (SIP), which is used to automatically form images from interferometric data immediately after observations. This group is referred to as a "Tiger Team," reflecting the fact that it is highly focused on achieving a specific goal - enabling the production of high quality science-ready images in an automatic fashion. The CITT is made up of eight members and is supported by an expert Advisory Group that provides input and feedback, and a team of community testers that help to verify the software enhancements. During the first year of CITT activity, the team has demonstrated marked improvements to calibration and imaging routines, as well as providing a functional and widely-used self-calibration script. It has also made important progress toward the realization of an automated direction-dependent calibration scheme. Drawing all of these development threads together into an enhanced pipeline is the central goal of the coming year of work for the CITT. In order to reflect on the past year of progress, and plan for the future, the CITT recently held a full-day workshop at ASTRON. The Advisory Group and expert community testers were invited to attend and bring their unique expertise to the discussions. Many of the workshop attendees are shown in today's image, casually hanging out together at a coffee break. The workshop itself was very successful and has helped to clarify the activities needed to realize the ambitious goal of a newly capable pipeline. We look forward to still more progress in the second year of Tiger Team activity! |
| Copyright: | LOFAR CITT |
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