[evlatests] Weekend EVLA data
Rick Perley
rperley at aoc.nrao.edu
Mon Feb 27 11:22:05 EST 2006
Although the system performance was very good on Thursday night,
things have
'gone to pot' since then. The L-band and X-band data I took over the
weekend show
the EVLA antennas -- particularly antenna 16 -- to be working poorly.
In baselines with the VLA:
Antenna 13 has near normal amplitudes
Antenna 14 has about 1/2 normal amplitude
Antenna 16 has about 1/10 normal amplitudes.
But, between the EVLA antennas themselves:
14 x 16 is normal
13 x 16 is about 1/2 amplitude
13 x 14 is about 1/4 amplitude.
As a whole, we get enormous amplitude closure errors when antenna-based
solutions are sought -- particularly for antenna 16.
These characteristics are the same at both bands tested.
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