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VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVATIONAL STATUS SUMMARY
Edited by J. D. Romney
January 5, 2012
Contents
List of Tables
1 INTRODUCTION
2 NEW DEVELOPMENTS
3 ANTENNA SITES
4 ANTENNAS
5 FREQUENCY BANDS & PERFORMANCE
6 VLBA STATION 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 &
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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 Documents and Articles
25 Further Information
26 Editor's Acknowledgments
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Jon Romney 2012-01-05
