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Feature
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Must have
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Data Processing
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Intra Program
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5
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5
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0
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Team_HIPPO
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Sprint 5
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SDP-G2
Description
Direction-dependent calibration is necessary to ensure functional completeness of the Mid imaging pipeline. The most challenging Mid observations to process will be at the lowest frequencies where diffraction is large and the ionospheric corrections will need to be calculated in a direction-dependent way. To understand the scaling challenge of the mid pipeline, a representative example of such processing must be developed. This will continue the work on the Mid imaging pipeline which currently provides direction-independent calibration.
This likely requires moving to the use of DP3 direct prediction and ideally would incorporate and build on the ability to do in-memory data exchange between DP3 stages in order to link different processing functions and avoid I/O overhead whilst adding the direction dependent capability (as developed in SP-3447).
Who?
- SDP development teams, commissioning scientists, Telescope operators.
What?
- Require a self-calibration workflow capable of direction-dependent calibration for SKA1 Mid
Why?
- While direction-dependent calibration is more critical for SKA Low, low bands of SKA Mid will also require it (at minimum).
- This feature introduces significant pipeline complexity, and is therefore important to introduce early