1. Combining GBT and VLA data

2. CASA Issues
GBT spectra (fully reduced, calibrated spectra) currently unable to load into CASA
NRAO’s Bob Garwood working on program to convert SDFITS file into scantable that CASA can read
Bob is working the program into his schedule, so no definitive time on when it will be completed
CASA has new spherical Bessel function for gridding (imaging) GBT data
waiting for above to be complete before testing can commence
CASA’s current task ‘imregrid’ is producing checkerboard pattern in GBT data
likely due to large GBT pixels (3.5’/side) being re-gridded to match teeny tiny VLA pixels (~7”/side), causing an artificial “edge-effect”
Helpdesk ticket submitted and NRAO is working on correcting problem

3. Flux measurements GBT flux:
converted K to Jy/bm using:
GBT flux produced = Jy/bm compared to Jy/bm from VLA CLEAN channel (see Feather notes) – Does this make sense???

4. Weighting Function for Feather

5. FFT of GBT and VLA center pixel profile

6. Feathered image
The LT GBT + VLA data look like this:

7. Combined in Image Domain
GBT + VLA data look like this for M81/M82 group using AIPS:

8. Other data combination methods
Image domain
Using GBT as model for CLEAN:

9. Other data combination methods
Combining in uv-plane???
Convolving VLA data with GBT beam – then combine – then run CLEAN (multi-scale??) on combined data