[evlatests] EVLA, feb 12.
Vivek Dhawan
vdhawan at aoc.nrao.edu
Sun Feb 12 17:07:23 EST 2006
I did continuum only, about 1.5hrs of data, at 11:30-1pm.
L, C, X, K band, antennas 13, 14 16.
ant 16 IFs A,C are dead or absent - L302 troubles, as Ken reported
earlier today. 16 B,D are good.
ant 14 all IFs, all bands behaved well to zero-th order.
ant 13 too, with fringes on all (except K) bands, all IFs.
Another small item fro yesterday's data: the EVLA-EVLA passbands,
on all IFs and bands, look pretty good (amplitudes flat, phase
curvature <20deg everywhere). Much better than the phase hook on
VLA-EVLA baselines (~150deg); but not quite as good as a typical
VLA-VLA passband (5-10deg). This was all 6.25MHz BW, 64 chans.
There are 2 things to follow up next week, besides the L302's:
1. Closure error at L-band, IF A = RCP only. Seen Feb 11 & 12th.
2. Ant 13 at C band, IF A, has low amplitude by a factor of 1.6 compared
to 13 B,C,D; and is more variable too. Also seen on Feb 11 & 12th.
13 B,C,D are very good - I need to track down whether this is real
SNR improvement (it seems to be) or just scale factor e.g. Tsys
measured and/or applied wrongly.
Mike Revnell's realtime spectrum display may show something on both
these issues.
Vivek.
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