Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
  • Receivers and IF System
  • The Local Oscillator Chain
  • The Correlator
    • Total Number of Channels
  • Some Advanced Spectral Line Topics
    • Creative Use Of The Spectral Line System
    • High Accuracy Spectral Line Polarization Observations
    • The Lag Spectrum, Gibbs Phenomenon and Hanning Smoothing
  • Continuum Observations in Line Mode
  
  
• OBSERVATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • Amplitude and Phase Calibration
  • Bandpass Calibration
  • Continuum Subtraction
  • Interference
  • Bandwidth and Time Smearing
  • Determining the Observing Frequency
    • Doppler tracking and dopset
    • Running dopset
    • Setting the LO Chain: loser
  • System Temperature Corrections
    • Changes In T With Elevation (T)
    • Contributions to T From Strong Lines
  
  
• REFERENCES
• Bandwidth and Number of Channels
  • Normal Mode
  • On-line Hanning Smoothing Option
  
  
• Interpreting Observe
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