1 | \secA{Future developments} |
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3 | Here are lists of planned improvements and a wish-list of |
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4 | features that would be nice to include (but are not planned in the |
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5 | immediate future). Let me know if there are items not on these lists, |
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6 | or items on the list you would like prioritised. |
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8 | Planned developments: |
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9 | \begin{itemize} |
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10 | \item Parallelisation of the code, to improve speed particularly on |
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11 | multi-core machines. |
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13 | \item Better determination of the noise characteristics of |
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14 | spectral-line cubes, including understanding how the noise is |
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15 | generated and developing a model for it. |
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17 | \item Include more source analysis. Examples could be: shape |
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18 | information; measurements of HI mass; more variety of measurements |
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19 | of velocity width and profile. |
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20 | |
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21 | \item Improved ability to reject interference, possibly on the |
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22 | spectral shape of features. |
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24 | \item Ability to separate (de-blend) distinct sources that have been |
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25 | merged. |
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26 | \end{itemize} |
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28 | Wish-list: |
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29 | \begin{itemize} |
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30 | \item Incorporation of Swinburne's S2PLOT |
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31 | \footnote{\href{http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/s2plot/} |
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32 | {http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/s2plot/}} code for improved |
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33 | visualisation. |
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34 | \item Link to lists of possible counterparts (\eg via NED/SIMBAD/other |
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35 | VO tools?). |
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37 | \item On-line web service interface, so a user can upload a cube and |
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38 | get back a source-list. |
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40 | \item Embed \duchamp\ in a GUI, to move away from the text-based |
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41 | interaction. |
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42 | \end{itemize} |
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44 | \secA{Why \duchamp?} |
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46 | Well, it's important for a program to have a name, and the initial |
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47 | working title of \emph{cubefind} was somewhat uninspiring. I wanted to |
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48 | avoid the classic astronomical approach of designing a cute acronym, |
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49 | and since it is designed to work on cubes, I looked at naming it after |
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50 | a cubist. \emph{Picasso}, sadly, was already taken \citep{minchin99}, |
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51 | so I settled on naming it after Marcel Duchamp, another cubist, but |
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52 | also one of the first artists to work with ``found objects''. |
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53 | |
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