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       R. Craig Walker   Home Page

I am a staff scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, working at the Array Operations Center in Socorro New Mexico, USA. My research interests are mainly in the area of high resolution observations of extragalactic radio sources. Most of my time is spent in observatory and user support, especially related to the Very Long Baseline Array.

PRESENTATION SLIDES: In this area, I have HTML versions of the slides used in some talks.

PUBLICATIONS: This links to some of my astronomical publications and a complete bibliography.

ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES: Some astronomical images I have made (Not much yet).

SOCORRO: Follow this link to see some photos of Socorro and surrounding region.

PIE TOWN HOLOGRAPHY: This link leads to some photos of the equipment being used to do holography on the Pie Town VLBA antenna.

VLBA TESTING: Some information and plots related to various VLBA testing issues can be found on this link.

VLBA FIBER CONNECTIONS: This gives some of what we know relating to a possible future project to connect the VLBA with fiber for real time correlation.

TELESCOPE PICTURES: This is a collection of photos I have taken of telescopes and other astronomy related subjects. (not much yet)

MARKII Correlator:The old NRAO Mark II VLBI correlator is at risk of being thrown out. These photos show its condition in March 2004. There is also a photo related to the EVLA first fringes.

UV SCENARIOS: This section gives the UV coverage for some hypothetical VLBI arrays, mostly consisting of the VLBA plus some station station someone has asked about.

PHOTOGRAPHS from trips etc. Includes photos of Hein Hvatum.

My personal home page outside NRAO.

LINKS: Some useful web links.

M87 Project: Prelimary results, including a movie, from a project to study the dynamics of the base of the M87 jet using the VLBA at 43 GHz.

Local pages. Access limited to NRAO network sites.

SCHED: I support the program used for scheduling VLBI observations on the VLBA, the European VLBI Network (EVN), the VLBI Space Observatory Program, and for other astronomical VLBI observations.  The html version of the SCHED Manual is at this link.

Here are a couple of sample SCHED plots useful for proposal and observation planning. They are here to help tempt observers to use the plotting capabilities of SCHED.

UV coverage--  UPTIME plot


This page is very much under construction, although changes are happening slowly.