From: Mark Holdaway <mholdawa@NRAO.EDU>
To: Stephane Guilloteau <guillote@iram.fr>
cc: Al Wootten <awootten@NRAO.EDU>
Subject: proposal for calibration PB chapter
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:33:50 -0700 (MST)


Stephane and Al,

May I suggest that we divide up the responsibility for
rewriting the calibration chapter of the project book?
I am finding that I will probably be taking a larger
role in this work than I had initially thought.

I feel that I have useful things to say about:
	- pointing
	- primary beam
	- baseline determination
	- phase calibration (fast switching)

I am guessing that Stephane has useful things to say about:
	- pointing
	- flux calibration
	- phase calibration (radiometric)

Potential orphans are:
	- bandpass calibration
	- polarization calibration
	- single antenna calibration

Can Al do "single antenna calibration"?
(Al, do you feel inspired to do any other sections?)
I could do "polarization calibration", but it would be work.
Do we need anything new in "bandpass calibration"?

Stephane replied:
I could perhaps intervene too on "Bandpass" and
"Single Antenna" calibration
There are a couple of missing items (or implicit items) to be added:
    - focus determination
    - axis non intersection (baseline calibration)

Finally, I think we may have missing sections:
      -	I think that dynamic scheduling should
	have its own section here.
      -	We probably need something which integrates
	all of these calibrations, an overview which
	states when and where the calibrations will
	be performed (ie, on-line, while observing,
	post processing).
      - I am assuming there should be no ACA section
	at this point.  Or perhaps better, there are no
	ACA subsections for each section.
      -	Other missing sections?

Mark suggests:

      * We agree on how to split up the sections
	(with the above split as a starting point)

      *	We need to get an estimate from each of us
	as to when our sections will be done.

      * As each section is completed, we distribute
	among ourselves for comments (small chunks)

      *	One of us should be responsible for the final
	integration.  I could do that, but I am happy
	to let someone else do that as well.

Take care,

	-Mark