| 1 | Changelog
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| 2 | =========
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| 3 | 
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| 4 | Release 4.1.0 [2012-17-05]
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| 5 | 
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| 6 | * reworked build system to work as 'normal' python package
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| 7 | * Ticket #257 fixed bug in average_time introduced in 4.0
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| 8 | * experimental merging of IFs
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| 9 | * speed ups
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| 10 | * move to ipython>=0.11
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| 11 | * Ticket #269 fixed regression of reference scan detection for Hobart data
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| 12 | * work under OS X 10.7 
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| 13 | * fixed logging control through rcParams
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| 14 | * fix for frequency_alignment
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| 15 | * Ticket #264 silence skydip.
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| 16 | * Ticket #265 fix summary for multiple IF chains 
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| 17 | 
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| 18 | Release 4.0.0 [2011-10-05]
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| 19 | 
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| 20 | * Ticket #251 fixed scantable.scale broken behaviour when selection was set
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| 21 | * Ticket #250 fixed average_time's change in behaviour
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| 22 | * Ticket #249 fixed backwards compatibility with existing scantable
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| 23 | * speed up of scantable.summary which has changed the 
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| 24 |   output of the summary information
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| 25 | * various changes to MS export
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| 26 | 
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| 27 | Release 3.1.0 [2011-08-10]
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| 28 | 
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| 29 | * additional baseline fitting, e.g. sinusoid, cspline
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| 30 | * speed ups in various areas
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| 31 | * plotter metadata display
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| 32 | * interactive statistics
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| 33 | * improved packaging
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| 34 | * matplotlib >= 1.0 support
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| 35 | * better support for MeasurementSet data
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| 36 | * more statistics e.g. max/min abcissa
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| 37 | * row-based flagging
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| 38 | * apply fft to spectra
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| 39 | * improved mask handling
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| 40 | 
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| 41 | Release 3.0.0 [2010-05-06]
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| 42 | 
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| 43 | * BEWARE: added asap2to3 which converts '.asap' files from version 2 to 
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| 44 |           version 3
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| 45 | * Ticket #183 Added scantable.get_weather
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| 46 | * Ticket #181 Added work-around for casacore bug in saving tables with
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| 47 |               selection
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| 48 | * Ticket #178 Added opacity_model based on  miriad's atmospheric model
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| 49 | * Ticket #177 Added function skydip to determine opacities.
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| 50 | * Ticket #172 Fixed non-working scantable.resample
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| 51 | * Ticket #155 Better output filenames. Ignore non-existsing 
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| 52 |               beams/pols/ifs/scans
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| 53 | * Ticket #157 numpy >= 1.1 support
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| 54 | * Ticket #158 fixed plotter.set_font
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| 55 | * Ticket #160 Aspect ratio of plotter is customisable now
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| 56 | * Ticket #163 fixed for scantable.set_sourcetype
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| 57 | * Ticket #164 Upgrade note in wiki FAQ
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| 58 | * Ticket #165 Handle non-parallactified polarimtery data (if supported in 
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| 59 |               rpfits)
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| 60 | * Ticket #167 Added running polynomial filter to scantable.smooth
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| 61 | * Ticket #168 Data exported via scantable.save now contains correct frequency
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| 62 |               or velocity information
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| 63 | * Ticket #169 Simplified selection of data
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| 64 | * Ticket #46  Interactive lag flagging
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| 65 | * Ticket #170 Provided access to frequency coordinate information via
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| 66 |               scantable.get_coordinate
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| 67 | * Added OS X 10.5 Disk image installer
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| 68 | * Added support for OS X 10.6
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| 69 | * Interactive plotting annotations via optional argument interactive=True
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| 70 | * Interactive creation of masks on the plotter - plotter.create_mask
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| 71 | * Tidy up date range in asapplotter.plotazel/plotpointings
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| 72 | * support for gcc-4.4
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| 73 | 
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| 74 | Release 2.3.1 [2009-03-25]
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| 75 | 
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| 76 | * Ticket #154 Flagged data wasn't hnoured in fitting
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| 77 | * Ticket #153 plotter.plot_lines fixed for matplotlib >= 0.98
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| 78 | * Ticket #90  Support integer values for frequencies/errors/intensities
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| 79 | 
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| 80 | Release 2.3.0 [2009-03-13]
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| 81 | 
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| 82 | * Ticket #150 fix in casacore for frequency frame conversions
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| 83 | * Ticket #151 added rc parameter and function set_sourcetype to identify
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| 84 |               on/off scans
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| 85 | * Ticket #78/#112 Resolved the issue with random errors occuring under linux
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| 86 |                   for large
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| 87 |    data files, which corrupted the identifaction of off scans
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| 88 | * Ticket #149 Fixed the bug causing spectral line search to go into an
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| 89 |               infinite loop in some rare circumstances
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| 90 | * Ticket #110 Added export to CLASS readable FITS files
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| 91 |    scantable.save("myfile.fits", "CLASS")
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| 92 | * Ticket #142 Fix of the frequency alignment for long observations
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| 93 | * Ticket #133 allow supression of history in the scantable via rc parameters
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| 94 | * Ticket #109 source direction for Hobart data
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| 95 | * Ticket #115 added running median to scantable.(smooth(kernel='rmedian')
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| 96 | * Ticket #148 opacity correction wasn't applied to TSYS
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| 97 | * Ticket #135 quotient detection failure for specific source names
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| 98 | * Ticket #140 NaN values not handled - added scantable.flag_nans to ensure
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| 99 |               that the NaN are flagged
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| 100 | * added python iterator access to scantable rows
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| 101 | * made functions available to directly manipulate spectra 
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| 102 |   scantable.get/set_spectrum
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| 103 | * upgrade to support ipython >= 0.8.1
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| 104 | * support gcc-4.3
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| 105 | * use scons >= 1.1.0
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| 106 | * update to latest livedata I/O functions
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| 107 | * add WCS info to the exported text files
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| 108 | 
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| 109 | 
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| 110 | Release 2.2.0 [2007-05-02]
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| 111 | 
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| 112 | * fix for losing flags in average_time
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| 113 | * changed asap_update_data to contact ATNF ftp server directly
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| 114 | * Documentation updates
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| 115 | * changed to use casacore instead of aips++
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| 116 | * auto_quotient uses on/off pair detection by default, 'time' the old mode can also
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| 117 |   be accessed
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| 118 | * Ticket #107 added function to shift reference pixel
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| 119 | * Ticket #106 added  function to retrieve integration times
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| 120 | * Ticket #105 added Parkes K-band gain curve
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| 121 | * Ticket #102 fixed wrong polarisation type in case of 'circular'
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| 122 | * Ticket #104/94 fixed segmentation fault for time average if all channels are flagged
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| 123 | * Ticket #98  AIPSPATH is honoured if set
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| 124 | * Ticket #101 fixed set_restfreqs not working for IFs not starting at 0
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| 125 | * Ticket #97 fixed error in opacity calculation
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| 126 | 
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| 127 | Minor Release 2.1.1 [2006-11-09]
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| 128 | 
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| 129 | * fix for Ticket #88 - numpy masks
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| 130 | * better TAB completion for ipython (handles quotes, don't list private members)
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| 131 | * Fix for Ticket #81 = scanatble.stats output as list
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| 132 | * ticket #64 - speed up of auto_poly_baseline
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| 133 | * fix for ticket #89 - export of IF sub-selections
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| 134 | * fix for Ticket #83 - export to ms2 crashed asap
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| 135 | * added file suffix support for name.rpf.1 etc.
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| 136 | 
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| 137 | Release Version 2.1.0 [2006-09-11]
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| 138 | 
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| 139 | * Processing of Multibeam MX data
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| 140 | * Line Catalogs for both plotting and setting rest frequencies
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| 141 | * median averaging
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| 142 | * support of circular polarisations
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| 143 | * binaries for fedora (core 3/5), debian, ubuntu, OSX (ppc,intel)
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| 144 | * text/arrow/line annonations for plotter
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| 145 | * export of fit parameters to text file
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| 146 | * disk based scantables for large data sets
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| 147 | * re-introduced custom quotients
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| 148 | * fixed major fitter bug
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| 149 | * fft flagging
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| 150 | * full support for MOPS data
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| 151 | 
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| 152 | Release Version 2.0 [2006-04-28]
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| 153 | 
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| 154 | * Major rework of internal data representation. Now supports IFs with
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| 155 |   different number of spectral channels. This has minimal effect on the
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| 156 |   user interface.
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| 157 | * Creation of a "selector" object used for data selection. Allow slicing of
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| 158 |   data in beam, IF, polarisation as well as selection via header values
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| 159 |   (e.g. Tsys). set_cursor is now invalid use set_selection instead.
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| 160 | * Scantables can be merged
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| 161 | * scantable.lines() has been removed. Set rest frequencies by value
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| 162 |   (This will change in 2.1)
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| 163 | * Multiple data files (e.g. rpf) can be read into a single scantable
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| 164 | * Polarmetric infrastructure improved to support most observing styles
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| 165 |   (linear feeds only)
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| 166 | * ability to convert to/store as Stokes
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| 167 | * Plotter can now only plot from a single scantable (use merge if necessary)
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| 168 | * ASCII (text) spectral output changed to be more usable
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| 169 | * Can change the source position coordinate frame
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| 170 | * Bug fixes
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| 171 | * auto_quotient is doing "closest in time reference"
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| 172 | * option auto-align in velocity when using average_time
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| 173 | * flagging on a per channel base
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| 174 | 
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| 175 | 
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| 176 | (Release 1.2.2)
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| 177 | 
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| 178 | * channel based flagging
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| 179 | * Added get_elevation, azimuth and parangle
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| 180 | * Added swap_lineas & invert_phase
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| 181 | * added allaxes arg to poly_baseline
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| 182 | * Request: added pager throuput for history and summary
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| 183 | * Request: Log meesage on auto_quotient()
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| 184 | * Bug Fix: plotter -set_mode("s","i").
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| 185 | * Bug fix: plotter -autoscale abcissa limits from all spectra for stacking.
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| 186 | 
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| 187 | Release Version 1.2.1 [2005-12-06]
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| 188 | 
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| 189 | * scantable.recalc_azel - recalcualte azimuth and elevation based on
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| 190 | * pointing Bug fix: plotter - set_layout got overwritten byt plot; row
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| 191 |   cursor not honoured in _plot_time
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| 192 | 
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| 193 | 
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| 194 | Release Version 1.2 [2005-11-30]
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| 195 | 
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| 196 | Code changes
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| 197 | ------------
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| 198 | * frequency switching: scantable.freq_switch()
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| 199 | * get a list of sourcenames: scantable.get_sourcename()
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| 200 | * build quotients from matched _S/_R pairs or 1*_R/n*_S automatically
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| 201 | * plotting control: plotter.set_colors(), plotter.set_linestyles(),
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| 202 |   plotter.set_linewidth() all also  via .asaprc parameters
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| 203 | * non-interactive (non-GUI) plotting
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| 204 | * ASAP Online (Mopra) Monitor web interface (mini pipeline)
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| 205 | * user control of multi-panel: plotter.set_layout()
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| 206 | * histogram plotting: part of linestyles
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| 207 | * plugins: via ~/.asap/userfuncs.py
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| 208 | * plotter panel control: rcParams['plotter.ganged']
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| 209 | * usability: reworked the whole asap startup scripts, now all user adjustable
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| 210 |   through ~/.asap/
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| 211 | 
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| 212 | Todos/pending
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| 213 | --------------
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| 214 | * documentation update: should be finished by 2005-11-25
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| 215 | * cookbook
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| 216 | * release 1.2:  2005-11-30
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| 217 | 
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| 218 | Major non-targets, resulting from requirements/targets
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| 219 | -----------------------------------------------------
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| 220 | * asap logging, which can be turned on and off through .asaprc/rcParams
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| 221 |  (from asapmon)
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| 222 | * Data container v2 design study and document ( moved from cycle II )
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| 223 | 
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| 224 | Not Addressed
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| 225 | -------------
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| 226 | 
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| 227 | (deferred to cycle II, as described in support document)
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| 228 | 
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| 229 | * Flexible data selection
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| 230 | * "Merging of spectra" (concatenating scantables)
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| 231 | 
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| 232 | * public defect tracking system
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