[evlatests] C-band polarimetry -- good news
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Thu Oct 25 13:44:38 EDT 2007
I've carefully reduced the C-band polarimetry data taken last Friday.
The (pleasing) bottom line is that all the antennas (both EVLA and VLA)
show superb stability in the cross-polarization. There is a small
global phase variation in the observed position angle of 3C286 of about
3 degrees, which is conceivably due to ionospheric Faraday rotation (
this corresponds to about 15 rad/m^2 -- a bit larger than normal, but
probably within range for these daytime observations).
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