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Science Goals

The simplest method of creating Scheduling Blocks is by creating oneor more Science Goals. These must be created as part of an observingproposal, but may be skipped by privileged users. A Science Goalcaptures the basic scientific requirements of a project (e.g. desiredsensitivity, angular resolution, largest angular scale of source) andso does not require detailed knowledge of how ALMA works or how theobservations are actually run. The OT contains a number of tools thataid in the process of filling the necessary information and will warnthe user if invalid parameters have been entered.

If a proposal is awarded time, the project is retrieved from thearchive and the SBs are automatically generated from the ScienceGoals.



The ALMA OT Team, 2011 May 20