[evlatests] Outstanding Ku-band sensitivities
Rick Perley
rperley at nrao.edu
Wed Nov 9 14:02:47 EST 2011
The EVLA sensitivities at Ku-band are simply stunning. We now have
16 antennas equipped at Ku-band, plenty to establish the overall array
performance.
Using the same methods as described for X-band:
Freq. SEFD Tsys Effic.
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13200 MHz 265 Jy 25K 0.53
16800 290 28 0.54
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The project book required an SEFD ~ 400 Jy, so you can see we've
cleared that bar with 'room to spare'. The efficiencies are exactly as
expected, so, again, the superb performance is a result of the
outstanding receivers on the array.
As before, errors should be no more than ~5% on any of these
quantities.
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