VLA Observational Status Summary 2014A

VLA capabilities February 2014 - September 2014

1. Introduction
   1. Purpose of Document, Older Versions of the OSS
   2. An Overview of the VLA
   3. The Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) Project
2. Proposing for the VLA for the current semester
3. Performance of the VLA during the current semsester
   1. Introduction
   2. Resolution
   3. Sensitivity
   4. VLA Frequency Bands and Tunability
   5. VLA Samplers
   6. Field of View
      1. Introduction
      2. Primary Beam
      3. Chromatic Aberration (Bandwidth Smearing)
      4. Time-Averaging Loss
      5. Non-Coplanar Baselines
   7. Time Resolution and Data Rates
   8. Radio-Frequency Interference
   9. Subarrays
   10. Positional Accuracy & Astrometry
   11. Limitations on Imaging Performance
       1. Image Fidelity
       2. Invisible Structures
       3. Poorly Sampled Fourier Plane
       4. Sidelobes from Confusing Sources
       5. Sidelobes from Strong Sources
       6. Wide-band Imaging
       7. Wide Field Imaging
   12. Calibration and Flux Density Scale
   13. Complex Gain Calibration
       1. General Guidelines for Gain Calibration
       2. Rapid Phase Calibration and the Atmospheric Phase Interferometer (API)
   14. Polarization
   15. VLBI Observations
   16. Snapshots
   17. Shadowing and Cross-Talk
   18. Combining Configurations and Mosaicing
   19. Pulsar Observing
4. The WIDAR Correlator
   1. General Capabilities
      1. Introduction
      2. Wideband Observing
      3. Spectral Line Configurations
      4. Continuum Subarrays
   2. Shared Risk Observing Program
   3. Resident Shared Risk Observing Program
5. Documentation
6. Key Personnel
7. Acknowledgements

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• ant_positions.ps