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Technical Justification

In order for the proposal review committees to judge that the proposed observations are technically feasible and will achieve the scientific objectives, it is necessary for the user to justify the various choices that were made when creating the Science Goal. For example, for a spectral line observation it must be shown that the requested sensitivity and correlator setup will enable the line to be detected with sufficient signal to noise and that the spectral resolution of the correlator mode, perhaps including spectral averaging, is appropriate.

From Cycle 2 onwards the technical justification should no longer be submitted as part of the PDF that contains the scientific case, but instead using a node in the Science Goal. This has been designed to help non-expert users in particular in the writing of technical justifications and does this by presenting the relevant parameters that need justifying, including ``non-standard'' choices, in one location in the OT. The user should read the information presented in this node carefully and use and refer to it in the textual justification, which is also entered in this node. Please note that any figures which the user would like to refer to should go into the Scientific Justification PDF.

The following information is presented:

The justification text itself cannot exceed 4000 characters. If no text is entered than the project will not validate.


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The ALMA OT Team, 2014 May 21