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Scheduling Block Restrictions

Presently, SBs generated for Science Goals contain only one source. The number of SBs that are created for a Science Goal depends on its parameters, mainly the angular resolution and largest angular scale. The algorithm used to split the project into SBs is described below.

The current version of the Scheduling Block generator does not support sideband separation of DSB receivers, i.e. using both sidebands, LSB and USB, at a time. The Multi Resolution Mode of the BL correlator is used to configure more than 1 spectral window in a baseband, each. with potentially a different bandwidth and number of channels. The Multi Region Mode is similar, but every spectral window must have the same bandwidth and number of channels.



The ALMA OT Team, 2011 May 20