3. Performance of the VLA during the Next Semester

1. Introduction
2. Resolution
3. Sensitivity
4. VLA Frequency Bands and Tunability
5. VLA Samplers
6. Field of View
   1. Primary Beam
   2. Chromatic Aberration (Bandwidth Smearing)
   3. Time-Averaging Loss
   4. 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 non-Deconvolved 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

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