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• Enhancements:

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     New registration / login option: 
    • You may now log in with your own institution account via a federated identity system.
    • Existing users with MWA ASVO accounts may continue to log in with them, as normal.
    • Existing MWA ASVO account users may also log in via their own institution. This utilises the MWA identity management framework that allows users to log on via thousands of different institutions via the Australian Access Federation (AAF) and the international federation: eduGAIN.
    • If you log in with a federated identity for the first time, you will be asked to go through a short one-time enrolment process to confirm your details and confirm your email address. 
    • If you log in or register with a federated identity and you already have the same email for your local MWA ASVO account, then the accounts will be merged, allowing you to sign in with either method.
    • If you are a current Phase 2 member of the MWA Collaboration and you have already enrolled as part of that process, then you will not need to enrol again.
    • Phase 2 MWA Collaboration members will also automatically have access to data as per the MWA Data Access Policy.

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     Calibration: 
    • Conversion jobs now have the option of finding and applying a calibration solution so it returns a calibrated measurement set or uvfits file. This output can then be used in standard radio astronomy tools for analysis / imaging (e.g. CASA, WSClean, etc)
    • From the website or via the mwa_client / API you can now opt to try and apply a calibration solution to your conversion job.
    • If there exists an appropriate calibration solution for the observation, the MWA ASVO will provide you with a measurement set or uvfits file which has the calibration solution applied. 
    • If a an appropriate calibration solution cannot be found for the observation then the job will fail. NOTE: not all observations have calibration solutions, yet- this is something the MWA ASVO team are working on completing in the next few weeks. 
    • For more information about the calibration feature please see: Data Access > MWA ASVO Calibration Option.

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     manta-ray-client now uses an API key for authentication:
    • You will need to obtain the newest version of the manta-ray-client (mwa_client and API).
    • API key now replaces username/password for the API and mwa_client. 
    • ASVO_USER and ASVO_PASS environment variables are no longer used and should be removed from your .profile or .bashrc.
    • MWA_ASVO_API_KEY environment variable is now used to authenticate with the API / mwa_client.
    • Find your API key from your "Profile" on the MWA ASVO website- it has been auto-generated for you already and then set your MWA_ASVO_API_KEY environment variable to it.
    • The mwa_client and API now checks the API version on the server and if your client is out of date you will receive an error message asking you to get the latest version.

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     UI improvements:
    • Verification and welcome emails now have html formatting for clients that support it.
    • All help and documentation for the MWA ASVO has been moved to this wiki.
    • Minor look and feel improvements to the underlying web page template.
• Fixes:

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     Clicking the link in the email verification email sent during the registration process now correctly informs you that your verification was successful.

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     When user submits data in a form e.g. registration, errors are more clearly highlighted in the browser.

5-Sep-2018

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     The cone search now has a checkbox. When unchecked, it will perform a strict cone search against the observation pointing. When checked (this used to be the default behaviour), the cone search will show any results where the cone is anywhere within the primary beam. This will mean you get a lot more results than the strict cone search.

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     Conversion jobs now have the option to apply a unity bandpass correction. This is equivalent to the cotter “-sbpassband” option. Ticking the box will effectively cause the MWA ASVO to not apply the corrections by passing all 1’s to cotter.

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