The VLA Green Book

When the VLA Green Book was written in 1978 (!), its original purpose was to serve as an introduction to the VLA for prospective observers, providing an overall view of the VLA and information about the instrument at a level appropriate to those who may not know a great deal about interferometry and aperture synthesis techniques. It has been updated sporadically, and the current version was last updated in 1992. Although in the era of the EVLA much of the information is hopelessly outdated, there will be information of interest. For current information on the status of the array the reader is referred to the EVLA web pages and specifically the more compact EVLA Observational Status Summary.

The Green Book can be downloaded as follows:

For reasons unknown two useful and popular plots from the Green Book were not included in the scanned version and are therefore made available here:
Modified on Wednesday, 06-Jan-2010 15:56:39 MST