EVN User Guide

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

Essential information for EVN users

• Call for Proposals
• How to propose observations with the EVN
• How to schedule EVN observations (including EVN block schedules)
• 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