The EVLA (Phase 1)
VLA
Phase 1
Phase 2
Point source sensitivity
10
m
Jy
0.8
m
Jy
0.6
m
Jy
No. baseband pairs
2
4
4
Maximum bandwidth in
each pol’n
0.1 GHz
8 GHz
8 GHz
No. frequency channels,
full BW
16
16384
16384
Max. frequency channels
512
16384
[262144]
16384
[262144]
Max frequency resolution
381 Hz
~1 Hz
~1 Hz
(Log) Frequency coverage
0.3-50 GHz
25%
75%
100%
No. baselines
351
351
666
Spatial resolution @ 5 GHz
0.4”
0.4”
0.04”