Guide to MFFE Observations with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope Date: 2010/07/20 Revision: 2.

• 1 Special Note
• 2 Introduction
  • 2.1 The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
  • 2.2 Proposing for Time
• 3 Telescope Parameters and Array Configurations
  • 3.1 Telescope Parameters
  • 3.2 Array Configurations
  • 3.3 Shadowing
• 4 Observing Modes
• 5 Technical Information
  • 5.1 Observing Bands
  • 5.2 Correlator Setup
  • 5.3 Sensitivity
  • 5.4 Multi-frequency observations
  • 5.5 Spectral Dynamic Range
  • 5.6 Time and bandwidth smearing
  • 5.7 Primary beam and Mosaicing
• 6 VLBI
• 7 PuMa
• 8 RFI (Radio Frequency Interference)
• 9 Observing with the WSRT
  • 9.1 Schedule
  • 9.2 Observing Procedure
  • 9.3 Calibration
• 10 After the Observations
  • 10.1 Getting the Data
  • 10.2 Data Reduction
• 11 Archive
• 12 Further Information and Contact People
  

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