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 Noise Cal
  • 6.4 Pulse Cal
  • 6.5 Receiver
  • 6.6 Front End Synthesizer
  • 6.7 IF Converter
  • 6.8 IF Cables
  • 6.9 ROACH Digital Backend (RDBE)
  • 6.10 Mark 5C Recorders
  
  
• 7 CORRELATOR
  • 7.1 Spectral Resolution
  • 7.2 Integration Period
  • 7.3 Multiple Phase Centers
  • 7.4 Output Rate
  
  
• 8 ANGULAR RESOLUTION & u-v 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 Proposal Preparation and Submission
  • 17.2 Large Proposals
  • 17.3 Director's Discretionary Time
  • 17.4 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