[evlatests] Q-band Status
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Thu Oct 5 16:28:08 EDT 2006
Five EVLA antennas gave identifiable, stable fringes on all IFs:
13, 14, 16, 18, and 24. Good Show!
In terms of sensitivity, it's clear we have some work to do. Only
antenna 13 shows a sensitivity comparable to median VLA antennas. The
others are all at the tail end of the sensitivity distribution. (But
they are not alone -- numerous VLA antennas keep them company).
I suspect one, or both, of two explanations:
a) Reference pointing failed. (I elected to do 'primary' only, and
if the beam is more than ~20 arcseconds off, this will fail).
I neglected to request the pointing solutions from operations -- when I
get these, I'll correlate the results with the sensitivities.
b) Optics. We have yet to do the careful focus and subreflector
alignments. There will also be needed a full panel adjustment, via
holography.
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