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Phase 2 Observing Programs

After the successful application of a Phase 1 proposal and havingobtained observing time, the telescope runfiles (Scheduling Blocks)need to be created; this is often referred to as Phase 2 . In most cases, these will be automatically generated from theScience Goals that were defined at Phase 1. The OT will be used toretrieve the approved project from the ALMA Archive, the user willgenerate the SBs, and the project is resubmitted to the archive.

For privileged users, it is possible to create a Phase 2 project byskipping the Science Goal stage and constructing the ObsUnitSets andScheduling Blocks directly. This is a complicated process and will notgenerally be available to normal users.



The ALMA OT Team, 2011 May 20