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VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVATIONAL STATUS SUMMARY

Edited by J.S. Ulvestad

August 4, 2008

Contents
List of Tables
INTRODUCTION
VLBA FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
ANTENNA SITES
ANTENNAS
PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS
VLBA SIGNAL PATH
- Antenna and Subreflector
- Feed
- Polarizer
- Pulse Cal
- Noise Cal
- Receiver
- Maser
- Local Oscillator Transmitter and Receiver
- Front End Synthesizer
- IF Converter
- IF Cables
- IF Distributors
- Base Band Converters
- Samplers
- Formatter
- Recorders
- Site Computer
- Monitor and Control Bus
- GPS Receiver
RECORDING FORMATS
CORRELATOR
ANGULAR RESOLUTION
u-v PLANE COVERAGE
TIME RESOLUTION
SPECTRAL RESOLUTION
WIDE-FIELD IMAGING
BASELINE SENSITIVITY
IMAGE SENSITIVITY
CALIBRATION TRANSFER
AMPLITUDE CALIBRATION
PHASE CALIBRATION AND IMAGING
- Fringe Finders
- The Pulse Cal System
- Fringe Fitting
- Editing
- Self-Calibration, Imaging, and Deconvolution
- Phase Referencing
POLARIMETRY
SPECTRAL LINE OBSERVING TECHNIQUES
VLBA/HSA/EVN/GLOBAL PROPOSALS
- Preparing a Proposal
- Submitting a Proposal
- Student Support and Dissertations
PREPARATION FOR OBSERVING
DURING OBSERVING
POST-PROCESSING SOFTWARE
- AIPS
- CASA
- The Caltech VLBI Analysis Programs
VISITING THE DSOC
- General Information
- Travel Support for Visiting the DSOC
DATA ARCHIVE AND DISTRIBUTION
Publication Guidelines
- Acknowledgement to NRAO
- Dissertations
- Preprints
- Reprints
- Page Charge Support
RESOURCE LISTS
- Software
- Documents and Articles
- Key Personnel
Acknowledgments
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Jim Ulvestad 2008-08-04