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Pulsar Observing

The hardware for pulsar-specific observing modes at the VLA is no longer supported, and potential proposers should consider making use of telescopes that are more suitable for pulsar timing observations. The VLA is most fruitfully used for pulsar observations in its more traditional observing modes, accepting the signal/noise penalty that is paid by accepting data at all times rather than gating the correlator synchronously with the pulsar. The EVLA will offer significant new pulsar observing capability with its new correlator, starting in around 2010.



Jim Ulvestad 2007-04-09