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VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVATIONAL STATUS SUMMARY
Edited by J. D. Romney
January 15, 2010
Contents
List of Tables
1 INTRODUCTION
2 VLBA FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
3 ANTENNA SITES
4 ANTENNAS
5 PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS
6 VLBA SIGNAL PATH
6.1 Antenna and Subreflector
6.2 Feed
6.3 Polarizer
6.4 Pulse Cal
6.5 Noise Cal
6.6 Receiver
6.7 Maser
6.8 Local Oscillator Transmitter and Receiver
6.9 Front End Synthesizer
6.10 IF Converter
6.11 IF Cables
6.12 IF Distributors
6.13 Base Band Converters
6.14 Samplers
6.15 Formatter
6.16 Recorders
6.17 Site Computer
6.18 Monitor and Control Bus
6.19 GPS Receiver
7 CORRELATOR
7.1 Spectral Resolution
7.2 Integration Period
7.3 Output Rate
8 ANGULAR RESOLUTION
9
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PLANE COVERAGE
10 BASELINE SENSITIVITY
11 IMAGE SENSITIVITY
12 CALIBRATION TRANSFER
13 AMPLITUDE CALIBRATION
14 PHASE CALIBRATION AND IMAGING
14.1 Fringe Finders
14.2 The Pulse Cal System
14.3 Fringe Fitting
14.4 Editing
14.5 Self-Calibration, Imaging, and Deconvolution
14.6 Phase Referencing
15 POLARIMETRY
16 PULSAR OBSERVATIONS
17 SPECTRAL LINE OBSERVATIONS
18 WIDE-FIELD IMAGING
19 VLBA/HSA/EVN/GLOBAL PROPOSALS
19.1 Preparing a Proposal
19.2 Submitting a Proposal
19.3 Student Support and Dissertations
20 PREPARATION FOR OBSERVING
21 DURING OBSERVING
22 POST-PROCESSING SOFTWARE
22.1 AIPS
22.2 CASA
22.3 Difmap
23 VISITING THE DSOC
23.1 General Information
23.2 Travel Support for Visiting the DSOC
24 DATA ARCHIVE AND DISTRIBUTION
25 Publication Guidelines
25.1 Acknowledgment to NRAO
25.2 Dissertations
25.3 Page Charge Support
25.4 Reprints
26 RESOURCE LISTS
26.1 Software
26.2 Documents and Articles
26.3 Key Personnel
27 Acknowledgments
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Claire Chandler 2010-01-15
