Category: Updates

2022-02-01 software update v3.2

update: see details 22 Bugs and Release Notes of documentation v3.2

22.1 Recent changes in repository

This section gives the changes made since the last documentation release (as dated above). The changes are available in the working repository, but may not be distributed in any Gildas release yet.

  • 10-Jan-2022 Implement the LOAD command in viewer.
  • 07-Jan-2022 Implement SHOWPV and improve transposed data display.
  • 06-Jan-2022 Allow direct READ of FITS data cubes.
  • 03-Jan-2022 Improve syntax of COMBINE
  • 17-Dec-2021 Improve UV CHECK BEAM and FIT commands.
  • 16-Dec-2021 Add the UV MERGE /MODE CONCATENATE command to stitch adjacent or over- lapping spectral windows. Imaging is only possible using MAP BEAM STEP = 1 after this, so far.
  • 13-Dec-2021 Implement a fast, reliable version of ”statcont” through the MAP CONTINUUM command (run time < 40 secs for a 28 Gbyte data set on a 64-core machine)
  • 13-Dec-2021 Globally revised the Robust weighting scheme. Speed up by huge amount for large (¿ 10 MegaVis) number of visibilities. UV data sorting not required anymore.
  • 08-Dec-2021 Change the CASA – GILDAS interface. Use pure-Python scripts and put them in the $HOME/.casa directory to have a CASA-version independent solution.
  • 07-Dec-2021 A missing initialization was causing UV RESTORE to use the slow mode on some compiler versions.
  • 06-Dec-2021 Speed up (by a factor 5-10) the Natural weighting scheme when there is only 1 channel.
  • 19-Nov-2021 Create the viewer program, that only contains the DISPLAY\ language.
  • 19-Nov-2021 Expand the COMMAND ? Key mechanism to many commands.
  • 18-Nov-2021 Add the STATISTIC /UPDATE andFIT /JVM FACTOR commands