Future

As we get to know CARMA and refine calibration strategies, a number of new techniques will undoubtedly will have to be addressed. We name a few that are appearing on the horizon that you can expect future versions of the cookbook to address:

• Polarization
• Blanking and Flagging: baseline and band dependant integration times. This will require some changes to the lower level Miriad code.
• More detailed primary beam models for OVRO and BIMA for improved mosaicing. Currently only simple gaussians are used. Again something needed in Miriad.
• Iterative Selfcal (cf. BIMA Song scripts)
• support for python (see e.g. AIPY)

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