Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA)Town Meeting

Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 1:00-2:00pm, Salon 3

The purpose of this Town Meeting is to inform the AAS membership of the status of the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) Project. By the time of the Washington D.C. AAS meeting, the EVLA will have completed outfitting five antennas in the 27-telescope array, and installation will have begun of the new wide-band L (1-2 GHz) and C (4-8 GHz) receivers. The Canadian partners will have made considerable progress on the EVLA correlator. An on-the-sky test of the prototype correlator will take place in early 2007. At this proposed Town Meeting, NRAO and DRAO personnel will make brief presentations regarding: (a) the exciting science opportunities enabled by the EVLA