Monday, 26 July at 2.00pm @ JAC
Claire Chandler - NRAO
The Expanded Very Large Array
ABSTRACT: "The VLA is the world's most powerful synthesis imaging array,
and has been the workhorse of radio astronomy for more than 20 years.
However, it was designed in the 1970s, and its signal transmission and
data processing systems currently in use are still those that were built
with 1970s technology. The Expanded Very Large Array project seeks to
improve the current capabilities of the VLA by at least an order of
magnitude in all key observational capabilities: sensitivity, frequency
coverage, spatial resolution, correlator capabilities, and imaging
performance. In this talk, I will review the scientific and technical
cases for expansion of the VLA. When completed in ~2012, the EVLA will
give astronomers unprecedented imaging capabilities for research into the
properties of our evolving universe. "
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