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Observing Parameters

For each target type (science, calibration, optical pointing) the user must specify Observing Parameters. To create an Observing Parameters set, select the Observing Parameters folder in Resources . Via the Edit menu you can now select the type of observingparameters you want to add to the Observing Parameters folder. There is one for adding science parameters, one for the various calibrations as well as for optical pointing, holography and radiometric pointing. Alternatively, you can right-click and select one of the observing parameters options from the pop-up menu.

Figure 8.12: The form for the Observing Parameters. The tabs for science and calibration targets and for the special Observatory Setups are visible. The tabs become visible when the corresponding entry in the Observing Parameters folder in the Project Tree is selected.
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When selecting the newly-created entry in the Resources/Observing Parameters folder, in the Editors pane the empty observing parameters form is displayed. For each of the possible observingparameters sets there is a separate tab. When selecting an Observing Parameters folder the corresponding tab in the Observing Parameters form is enabled as displayed in Fig  8.12 . The Science Observing Parameters form includes the name of the parameter set, the representative frequency and bandwidth and the sensitivity goal for that frequency and bandwidth. For calibration observations, most of the observing parameters include the name of the parameter set, the cycle time (how often the calibration shall be repeated) and the default integration time. An exception is the observing parameters for pointing calibrations. This parameter set also contains the desired accuracy and which pointing method shall be used.

Note that the tabs for science and calibration parameters contain a sub panel Advanced Parameters which is only intended for Expert use and is described in more detail in Appendix  F . After having created one or more ObservingParameters data sets, clicking on the Resources/Observing Parameters folder shows a table with the available observing parameters sets.


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