AIPS Memos

These are listed in order of date released. Hint: the most interesting ones are probably near the end. All the memos are listed in this text file.

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• VLA 131: 1979/12: The Effects of Various Convolving Functions on Aliasing and Relative Signal-to-Noise Ratios Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (pdf, 1807868 bytes).
• 27: 1983/05/20: Non-Linear Coordinate Systems in AIPS (Corrected and Revised 1983/11/15) Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (ps, 2037575 bytes; Gzipped version 105874 bytes).
• 33: 1985/01/30: Gridding Synthesis Data on Vector Machines Donald C. Wells and William D. Cotton, NRAO (runoff, 70845 bytes).
• 35: 1985/06/01: AIPS GRIPES Procedures Donald C. Wells, Eric W. Greisen, and Nancy D. Wiener, NRAO (runoff, 46297 bytes).
• 39: 1986/01/25: Shareable Images for AIPS under VMS Pat Moore and Gary Fickling, NRAO (ps, 62163 bytes).
• 46: 1986/05/20: Additional Non-linear Coordinates Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (ps, 1066320 bytes; Gzipped version 111436 bytes).
• 51: 1987/05/15: The NRAO AIPS Project - A Summary Alan H. Bridle, NRAO (text, 9849 bytes).
• 54: 1987/11/16: The MAIL-REMINDER Utility for VAX/VMS Pat Murphy, NRAO (text, 32127 bytes).
• 61: 1988/09/12: The Astronomical Image Processing System Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (ps, 189404 bytes; Gzipped version 57530 bytes); excellent intro to the AIPS system.
• 62: 1989/08/31: The AIPS Wishlist Eric W. Greisen (ps, 172216 bytes; Gzipped version 53938 bytes).
• 65: 1990/07/16: Installing AIPS on an IBM RISC SYS6000 and Performance Results for Convex C220 and Sun Sparc Computers Eric W. Greisen and Mark Calabretta, AUSTRALIA TELESCOPE (text, 20161 bytes).
• 66: 1990/08/22: An Overview of the AIPS TV Servers Chris Flatters, NRAO (revised extensively but not updated for 15APR92 and later releases; ps, 159878 bytes; Gzipped version 48813 bytes)).
• 67: 1990/11/28: AIPS DDT benchmark results for Sun's SPARCstation 2GX (SUN4/75) Mark Calabretta, Henrietta May, Australia Telescope National Facility (text, 7909 bytes).
• 68: 1991/04/04: Summary of AIPS UV-data Calibration from VLA Arcive tape to a UV FITS tape Glen Langston, NRAO (ps, 91669 bytes).
• 69: 1991/03/28: The 1991 AIPS Site Directory Alan Bridle and Joanne Nance, NRAO (ps, 326893 bytes; Gzipped version 90518 bytes).
• 70: 1991/04/24: The 1990 AIPS Site Survey (HTML format, also available in WordPerfect binary Format) Alan Bridle and Joanne Nance, NRAO (WP doc is 233572 bytes).
• 71: 1991/04/08: A Comparison of DDT results: IBM RS/6000 and Convex C-1 Patrick P. Murphy, NRAO (ps, 80740 bytes).
• 72: 1991/05/07: AIPS Imaging and Self-Calibration: MAPIT Glen Langston, NRAO (ps, 188455 bytes; Gzipped version 58622 bytes).
• 73: 1991/05/16: AIPS DDT History Glen Langston, Pat Murphy and Dean Schlemmer, NRAO (ps, 172967 bytes; Gzipped version 49040 bytes).
• 74: 1991/08/08: AIPS at the Australia Telescope National Facility Mark Calabretta, ATNF (text, 72592 bytes).
• 75: 1991/09/23: 15APR91 DDT Results on a Sun IPC, a Sun Sparcstation 2, a Convex C1, and an IBM RS/6000 Model 550 Brian Glendenning & Gareth Hunt, NRAO (ps, 52350 bytes).
• 76: 1991/11/27: Summary of AIPS Continuum UV-data Calibration Glen Langston, NRAO (ps, 99638 bytes).
• 77: 1992/09/03: Summary of DDT Accuracy Results Ernest Allen & Glen Langston, NRAO (ps, 131270 bytes; Gzipped version 37673 bytes).
• 78: 1992/06/01: Object Oriented Programming in AIPS Fortran (OOPS) W.D. Cotton, NRAO (ps, 183914 bytes) Updated version also available (ps, 306711 bytes; Gzipped version 54172 bytes).
• 79: 1992/06/09: Polarization Calibration of VLBI Data W.D. Cotton, NRAO (ps, 196541 bytes; Gzipped version 58810 bytes).
• 80: 1992/06/30: Remote Tapes in AIPS Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (ps, 119776 bytes; Gzipped version 34708 bytes).
• 81: 1992/08/26: Tape and TV Performance in AIPS Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (ps, 66341 bytes).
• 82: 1992/09/24: Replacing the Convexes- New Color Algorithms in AIPS Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (ps, 94055 bytes).
• 83: 1992/12/14: Dual Libraries and Binaries in AIPSPatrick P. Murphy, NRAO (revised). (ps, 70237 bytes).
• 84: 1993/11/12: A Proposed Package to Support the Use of the X-Window System in AIPS tasks Chris Flatters, NRAO (ps, 80211 bytes).
• 85: 1994/02/09: DDT Revised and AIPSMark(93) Measurements Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (ps, 151013 bytes; Gzipped version 48028 bytes).
• 86: 1994/03/16: Widefield Polarization Correction of VLA Snapshot Images at 1.4 GHz W. D. Cotton, NRAO (ps, 222979 bytes; Gzipped version 61567 bytes).
• 87: 1994/04/05: The NRAO AIPS Project -- a Summary Alan H. Bridle, Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (ps, 63027 bytes).
• 88: 1994/05/16 The AIPS Gripes Database , Originally 1992/02/20, W. D. Cotton and Dean Schlemmer (both NRAO); this version revised by Eric Greisen (ps, 164506 bytes; Gzipped version 49276 bytes).
• 89: 1994/11/17 Baseline-Oriented Fringe Searches in AIPS , Chris Flatters (NRAO) (ps, 121486 bytes; Gzipped version 36944 bytes).
• 90: 1995/07/30 Delay decorrelation corrections for VLBA data within AIPS, A. J. Kemball (NRAO) (ps, 247619 bytes; Gzipped version 50431 bytes ).
• 91: 1995/12/12 AIPS Benchmarks on the Sparc Ultra 1 and 2, Patrick P. Murphy (NRAO) (ps, 55875 bytes).
• 92: 1996/10/01 Errors in Two Dimensional Gaussian Fits, L. Kogan (NRAO) (ps, 103347 bytes; Gzipped version 29956 bytes).
• 93: 1997/01/29 Position angle of the VSOP antenna feed, L. Kogan (NRAO) (ps, 204045 bytes; Gzipped version 35761 bytes)
• 94: 1997/01/29 AIPS Benchmarks for the Silicon Graphics Origin200, Athol Kemball and Chris Flatters (NRAO) (ps, 71937 bytes).
• 95: 1997/08/29 AIPS/AIPS++ INTEROPERABILITY, Athol Kemball (NRAO) (ps, 95429 bytes).
• 96: 1997/10/9 AIPS on an ALPHA AXP Clone, Robert L. Millner, Patrick P. Murphy, and Jeffrey A. Uphoff (NRAO) (ps, 45403 bytes).
• 97: 1997/10/14 Test of Errors of the Fitting Paramenters at Gaussian Fitting task JMFIT, L. Kogan (NRAO) (ps, 78818 bytes).
• 98: 1997/11/19 AIPSTerminal for Linux PC's, Robert L. Millner and Patrick P. Murphy (NRAO) (ps, 48379 bytes).
• 99: 1998/05/29, Multiple TV Servers on a Single Host, Patrick P. Murphy (NRAO) (HTML - experimental!). Also available in Postscript (color, 309035 bytes).
• 100: 1998/07/27: The Creation of AIPS Eric W. Greisen, NRAO (ps, 20 Megabytes; Gzipped version 2 Megabytes).
• 101: 1998/10/08: The Calculation of SNR in KRING's FFT stage Ketan M. Desai, (NRAO) (ps, 203535 bytes).
• 102: 1998/12/03: The FITS Interferometry Data Interchange Format Chris Flatters, (NRAO) (ps, 432881 bytes).
• 103: 2000/03/21: Weighting data in AIPS Ketan M. Desai, (NRAO) (ps, 70198 bytes).
• 104: 2000/09/08: Y2K, a new DDT, and AIPSMark(00) Measurements Eric W. Greisen, (NRAO) (ps, 108954 bytes).
• 105: 2001/02/28, 2001/04/26 (Version 2): AIPS Procedures for Initial VLBA Data Reduction Jim Ulvestad, Eric Greisen, Amy Mioduszewski (NRAO) (ps, 149060 bytes).
• 106: 2001/06/06: Making Movies from Radio Astronomical Images with AIPS C.C. Cheung, D.C. Homan, J.F.C. Wardle, D.H. Roberts, (Brandeis University) (ps, 118507 bytes).
• 107: 2002/04/08: KRING versus FRING Tests Amy J. Mioduszewski (NRAO) (ps, 359270 bytes)
• 108: 2003/01/21: Weights for VLA Data Bryan J. Butler, NRAO (ps 151585 bytes)
• 109: 2004/01/20: Using DVDs with AIPS Greg Taylor, Eric W. Greisen (ps, 73076 bytes)
• 110: Revised 2009/10/21, 2004/08/31: Strategy for Removing Tropospheric and Clock Errors using DELZN Amy J. Mioduszewski (ps, 675042 bytes). Also available in gzipped form (204621 bytes).
• 111: 2005/01/08: ATMCA: Phase Referencing using more than one Calibrator Edward Fomalont and Leonid Kogan (ps, 4044305 bytes); also as gzipped ps (229170 bytes)
• 112: 2007/03/19: Capabilities of the VLA pipeline in AIPS Lorant Sjouwerman (ps, 245441 bytes)
• 113: 2009/05/22: Faceted imaging in AIPS Leonid Kogan & Eric W Greisen (ps, 1169878 bytes); also gzipped (ps.gz, 308229 bytes) and pdf (pdf, 497238 bytes)
• 114: 2022/07/19: The FITS Interferometry Data Interchange Convention Eric W Greisen (ps, 960456 bytes); also gzipped (ps.gz, 417893 bytes) and pdf (pdf, 436808 bytes). Memo 114 uses color to distinguish changes from prior conventions.
• 115: 2009/06/29: Auto-boxing for Clean in AIPS Eric W Greisen (ps, 2638936 bytes); also gzipped (ps.gz, 435453 bytes) and pdf (pdf, 125531 bytes)
• 116: 2010/06/22: RFI Mitigation in AIPS; the new task UVRFI Leonid Kogan & Fraser Owen (ps, 796846 bytes); also gzipped (ps.gz, 218818 bytes) and pdf (pdf, 232971 bytes)
• 117: 2023/02/01: AIPS FITS File Format (revised) Eric W. Greisen (ps, 1234506 bytes); also gzipped (ps.gz, 418409 bytes) and pdf (pdf, 906252 bytes). The Tex version (text, 431573 bytes) is also available and may be helpful in finding things.
• 118:2017/11/08: Modeling Spectral Cubes in AIPS Eric W. Greisen (gzipped ps, 1877667 bytes); also pdf (pdf, 1268026 bytes)
• 119: 2014/12/11: TVSAD: interactive search and destroy Eric W. Greisen (gzipped ps, 1428787 bytes); also pdf (pdf, 267034 bytes)
• 120: 2017/07/22 revision: Exploring Image Cubes in AIPS Eric W. Greisen (gzipped ps, 2135861 bytes); also pdf (pdf, 747282 bytes)
• 121: 2016/09/12: Editing on a uv grid in AIPS Eric W. Greisen (gzipped ps, 929427 bytes); also pdf (pdf, 412836 bytes)
• 122:2017/03/07: Modeling Absorption-line Cubes in AIPS Eric W. Greisen (gzipped ps, 917673 bytes); also pdf (pdf, 570582 bytes)
• 123:2017/10/30: New Pulse-cal Capabilities for VLBI in AIPS Eric W. Greisen (gzipped ps, 702468 bytes); also pdf (pdf, 561755 bytes)
• 124:2018/11/15: Further Exploration of Image Cubes in AIPS Eric W. Greisen (gzipped ps, 2316139 bytes); also pdf (pdf, 394353 bytes)
• 125:2024/04/16: Post-Correlation Basis Conversion in AIPS Rick Perley & Eric W. Greisen (gzipped ps, 685049 bytes); also pdf (pdf, 577325 bytes)