Australia Telescope Compact Array
Users Guide

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October, 2006

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This manual was first written by R.A. Duncan, M.J. Kesteven and R.N. Manchester. Other members of the ATCA development team (especially J.R. Forster, R.P. Norris and J.B. Whiteoak) wrote ATNF documents that were used here. Later editors were W.M. Walsh (Versions 1.1 - 1.3), D.J. McKay (Version 2.01), S. Houghton (Version 3.0), J. Lazendic (October 1999), V. Wheaton (March 2002) and J. O'Brien and R.M. Wark in April 2004. R.M. Wark also updated the guide in May, 2005. Local staff at the Paul Wild Observatory have provided up-to-date system information. In August, 2005, R.M. Wark used Tony Wong's web pages as a basis for a chapter to describe 3mm observations. The October, 2006, update was done by P.G. Edwards. Many observers have provided helpful comments and identified errors and omissions in the Guide, which has helped improve it. If you find any areas requiring correction in this version, please draw it to the attention of Robin Wark or Phil Edwards.