- June 10, 1998
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Added new memos 66 and 67, new press release AAS (San Diego).
- May 15, 1998
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Added link to the
Poynter-Pickett and
Lovas
linecatalogs. Both have some form of searching for lines,
although you can also use NEMO's
tabpp and tablovas programs for local queries.
- March 18, 1998
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Added link to the
MMA development pages at NRAO.
- October 24, 1997
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The User's
Page now has
a link to
Calfind: a page that describes and displays planets and calibrators
for any epoch (display and controls are via a Java program).
- April 21, 1997
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Added link to our ASIAA partner.
They will have an Open House Party on May 30, 1997.
- March 25, 1997
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The link to the page that describes
how hour angle ranges are likely to be assigned to a project
has been updated to reflect the change from a script to a Java program.
- March 16, 1997
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Corrected an old
technical description, which now points to an updated copy at UIUC.
Should get it back at UMD.
- March 7, 1997
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An alternative noise calculator is now
available as a java applet,
courtesy Mike Regan.
- March 6, 1997
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We've added a Press Release page.
- December 10, 1996
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The
BIMA Call for Proposals has been updated and includes
directions on how to retrieve the latest versions of the Proposal
cover sheet and LaTeX style file.
The
What's New Page outlines the changes in scheduling and
provides
a link to a page which can be used to find the hour angle ranges
likely to be assigned a project.
XCORF, the X-Windows application used to interactively set correlator
options, has been updated and now resides as part of the main Miriad
distribution. Any site with Motif libraries can now build it.
Static binaries are still available;
see the BIMA User Page for details on how to
retrieve these static binaries.
- May 7, 1996
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Minutes of the BIDIG
(BIMA Interferometry DIscussion Group).
The Hat Creek machine bima2 has been converted to Solaris and is running
a new web server now.
- October 30, 1995
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New 9
Element BIMA Configurations:
Both the new 9 element C and C' configurations were developed by Sheng-Yuan
Liu and Dave Mehringer, with the help of Jack Welch and Mel Wright.
- June 29, 1995
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The Correlator Reference Manual is now online thanks to
Jerry Hudson.
- February 20, 1995
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Index to Fitted Antenna Positions are now available.
These are baseline solutions which may need to be applied to your data.
- January 3, 1995
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Current Weather
Station data are now available as interactive plots.
Previous
observing schedules are now archived on the BIMA Web Server.
- November 21, 1994
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The Observer's
guide and the
trouble shooting guide
are now included in the
Observer's Page thanks to Rick Forster.
- November 17, 1994
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The BIMA Observing Notes are now
included in the Observer's Page.
- November 16, 1994
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The BIMA WWW undergoes a radical facelift.
The home page is simplified, and several new sub-pages are created to
organize all information related to the subtopics:
general,
user,
observer,
programmer, and
internet.
In addition a quick-menu-bar is added to top of each sub-page to
facilitate Web navigation.
- November 8, 1994
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The BIMA electronic preprints are
now available on the Bima Web.
- October 25, 1994
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The WIP manual is now available
as a hypertext document. Look for it under the BIMA User Documentation
and the Miriad Documentation sections.
- August 9, 1994
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BIMA is now a participant in the
NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library.
Additional images, information about the currents status of the library,
and instructions on submitting fully processed images are available.
- July 18, 1994
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The hypertext and PostScript versions of the document
Writing Observing Command Files
has been updated.
- June 28, 1994
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The Bima User Documentation section has been updated to include both
a description of and a figure of
the new correlator modes and also
includes a PostScript version of the figure (thanks to Tamara Helfer).
- June 17, 1994
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The Hat Creek page now lets you execute the status command and get the
status of:
everything,
antennas,
interferometer,
messages,
systemps,
pointing.
- June 11, 1994
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The CHECKER software
(to check BIMA observing scripts) is now available on anonymous ftp as a
tar file.
A small installation guide
is available that guides you through.
It is assumed you have installed MIRIAD.
- March 28, 1994
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The Bima
Data Archive is now on-line thanks to the efforts of Jeff Terstriep
and others.
- Februray 8, 1994
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The Miriad Page now includes
What's new in Miriad;
the User's Guide and
Reference;
the Miriad
Programmer Guide;
and subroutine listing.
- January 26, 1994
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Selections from the Bima User's Guide are now on-line. These include
Checker Guide (also in
PostScript) and
a chapter on
Writing Observing Command Files
using the new syntax for observing files.
- January 5, 1994
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The Miriad User's Guide
is available thanks to Peter's experimentation with a texi2html converter.
- December 27, 1993
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The WWW server now contains the USNO
IERS Bulletin.
In addition, a
BIMA telephone and E-mail listing
is also on-line.
- December 23, 1993
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The BIMA Memo Index is now available
along with abstracts,
and the full text to some memos in dvi, Postscript, or hypertext formats.
A technical description of the
telescopes and proposal guidelines is also available.
- December 22, 1993
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The BIMA Image Gallery is created
as an archive of pictures and images of interest to BIMA users.
A hypertext version of the document
Writing Observing Command Files
is contributed by Jim Morgan.
- December 20, 1993
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This Bima WWW server is setup at UMD as a testbed for providing
BIMA users with documents and related services.