[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.
----------------------------------------------------------
13200 MHz   265 Jy          25K           0.53
16800            290               28            0.54
-------------------------------------------------------

    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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