EVN User Guide

Basic description of the EVN and more general information on the capabilities of the network.

Essential information for EVN users

• How to propose observations with the EVN.
• How to schedule EVN observations.
• Correlation of EVN data.
• Analysis of EVN data.
• The EVN Data Archive. See also the EVN Data Access Policy.
• EVN data analysis guide (html, gzipped postscript, pdf) - makes use of the results from the EVN user pipeline.
• The EVN Calculator is a useful tool at all stages of an EVN experiment. This allows baseline and image sensitivities to be calculated for various combinations of antennas, data rates and frequencies.
• The working status of the EVN telescopes is available in the general EVN status tables and the e-VLBI status tables.
• Travel support to JIVE and the EVN observatories is also available for EVN PIs.
• Personal EVN user support is available from the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE).

General information regarding the EVN

• EVN frequency coverage.
• EVN baseline sensitivity.
• EVN angular resolution at various frequencies (includes a table of baseline lengths).
• EVN source visibility for various arrays.
• EVN (and global) UV-coverage plots for various frequencies.
• EVN image sensitivity.
• Imaging limitations.