In particular for non-interferometric experts, the OT provides an easyway to create observing proposals without having the need to specifylarge amounts of observing detail. For standard observations, this isdone by defining Science Goals , each of whichcontains the basic scientific aims of a project. Often a singleScience Goal will suffice, but due to various restrictions on these(e.g. only one ALMA band can be included), more than one might benecessary. Each Science Goal consists of a series of forms to specifyspatial, spectral and a number of control parameters, as well as someinformation for the calibration observations.
The first action to create a Phase 1 proposal is to provide somegeneric information about the project. This is done in the Projectform that is visible when selecting the Project node. The fields inthe panels Principle Investigator and Main Project Information are to be filled in. Project Note and Advanced Options are for privileged users only. The Project form isvisible in Figure 6.1 .
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In the Project Structure pane, a Proposal folder will be visibleunderneath the top Project node. Within this is a Planned Observingfolder to which Science Goals can be attached. At the top of theproject tree, the status of the Proposal is visible. For newly createdproposals it will say Unsubmitted Proposal ; proposals that havealready been submitted will show Submitted . The latter should beconsidered as a warning. If this message is visible, submission of theproposal will overwrite the previous submission even if every singledetail of the proposal has since been changed! Please seeSection 11.3 for more details of what can go wrong duringthe submission process.