The purpose of the Visual Spectral Editor is, apart from the graphicalpresentation of the various parameter settings, to offer thepossibility of adjusting and optimising various frequency settingparameters interactively using the cursor.
The Visual Spectral Editor comes in two flavours: a simple version forfilling out the spectral setup for Phase 1 and Phase 2 Science Goalsand showing information about the selected receiver band, the rest-frameand observed frequencies and the atmospheric transmission curve. Afar more elaborate version is available for completing theSpectralSpec of a SB Instrument Setup and shows more baseband detailsand the settings of the spectral windows.
Together with the graphical information, the Visual Spectral Editoralso shows some of the fields in the corresponding form editor of theScience Goal or SB. These fields have already been discussed in thediscussed in the corresponding sections. The details for the ScienceGoal spectral setup can be found in Section 6.3.3 . Thedetails for the complete SB Instrument Setup form and the SpectralSpecfields can be found in Section 8.4.3 .
Below we first discuss the relatively simple Visual Spectral Editorfor Science Goals. In Section 10.2 , more detailsabout the Spectral Editor for SBs can be found.