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TST3, jan05 - SINGLE & SMALL MULTI-FIELD+SINGLE DISH COMBO

   Single-field, no single dish (defined in TST1),
   Small multi-field mosaic imaging, no single dish (defined in
      TST2) 
   *** PLUS: 
   Single-field or small mosaic, WITH (and without) single dish
      (add single dish image information during deconvolution). 

   Bandwidth = 256 channels or less, 
   Integration time less than 10 seconds
   5-27 antennas
   Line and continuum imaging
   Line requires continuum subtraction.  
   Self-calibration should be possible for bright sources

   Possible science: 
   -----------------
    1 mm: IRAM30m+PdBI/OVRO/BIMA 13CO(2-1) + thermal continuum
    3 mm: IRAM30m+PdBI/OVRO/BIMA HCO+(1-0) + thermal continuum
    7 mm: IRAM30m/GBT(OTF)+VLA  SiO(1-0) + thermal continuum
   1.3cm: IRAM30m/GBT(multifld)+VLA NH3(1,1) + thermal continuum

   Testing Focus: 
   --------------
   Functionality: editing (including automatic editing using
     heuristics to identify bad data), data reduction, deconvolution
   Spot check user interface developments, if available
   Spectral line and continuum Analysis functions 
   SD+interferometer uv-combination and imaging. 

   Lower Priority (not available or problems may not be fixed): 
   ------------------------------------------------------------ 
   Pointing, Tsys, Weather info to identify bad data (may be
     available for PdBI data but not for OVRO, BIMA, or VLA data). 
   Polarization for PdBI data (only VLA can do polarization). 
   Editing based on plot of calibrator solutions displayed with
     calibrator and source uv data.  
   Automatic identification of spectral lines (for uv continuum
     subtraction). 
   Generation of publication-quality figures.     

http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~dshepher/alma/offline.tests/

http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~dshepher/alma/testplans/

-- NicoleRadziwill - 16 Dec 2003