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VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVATIONAL STATUS SUMMARY
Edited by J. D. Romney
September 21, 2010
Contents
List of Tables
1 INTRODUCTION
2 VLBA FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
3 ANTENNA SITES
4 ANTENNAS
5 FREQUENCY BANDS & PERFORMANCE
6 VLBA SIGNAL PATH
6.1 Antenna, Subreflector, & Feeds
6.2 Polarizer
6.3 Pulse Cal
6.4 Noise Cal
6.5 Receiver
6.6 Front End Synthesizer
6.7 IF Converter
6.8 IF Cables
6.9 IF Distributor
6.10 Base Band Converter
6.11 Samplers
6.12 Formatter
6.13 Recorders
7 CORRELATOR
7.1 Spectral Resolution
7.2 Integration Period
7.3 Multiple Phase Centers
7.4 Output Rate
8 ANGULAR RESOLUTION &
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COVERAGE
9 BASELINE SENSITIVITY
10 IMAGE SENSITIVITY
11 CALIBRATION TRANSFER
12 AMPLITUDE CALIBRATION
13 PHASE CALIBRATION & IMAGING
13.1 Fringe Finders
13.2 The Pulse Cal System
13.3 Fringe Fitting
13.4 Editing
13.5 Self-Calibration, Imaging, & Deconvolution
13.6 Phase Referencing
14 POLARIMETRY
15 PULSAR OBSERVATIONS
16 SPECTRAL LINE OBSERVATIONS
17 VLBA/HSA/EVN/GLOBAL PROPOSALS
17.1 Preparing a Proposal
17.2 Submitting a Proposal
17.3 Student Support & Dissertations
18 PREPARATION for OBSERVING
19 DURING OBSERVING
20 POST-PROCESSING SOFTWARE
20.1 AIPS
20.2 CASA
20.3 Difmap
21 VISITING the DSOC
21.1 General Information
21.2 Travel Support for Visiting the DSOC
22 DATA ARCHIVE & DISTRIBUTION
23 PUBLICATION GUIDELINES
23.1 Acknowledgment to NRAO
23.2 Acknowledgment of DiFX
23.3 Dissertations
23.4 Page Charge Support
23.5 Reprints
24 RESOURCE LISTS
24.1 Software
24.2 Documents and Articles
24.3 Key Personnel
25 Acknowledgments
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Stephan Witz 2010-09-21
