Observation Summary

OBSID:1342209695
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:Calibration_RPSpecFlux_1-RPSpecFlux_433E_stdLine_Unchop_A_NGC6543_0001
Proposal:Calibration_rppacs_44
Target:NGC6543
Actual RA:17h 58m 33.68s
Actual Dec.:66° 38' 1.84''
Redshift:0.0 (z)
Purpose:---
Concat.:---
OD:555
Start:2010-11-20T07:14:34.000000 TAI (1668928474000000)
Duration:1401.0 seconds (incl. spacecraft on-target slew time)

AOT and instrument configuration:

AOT:PacsLineSpec
Mode:Pointed, unchopped grating scan
Bands:B3A R1 (prime diffraction orders selected)
Is bright:NO (default range mode)
Nod cycles:1

Observation block summary

Name(*)CameraIDBand(*)Wave(*)WaveMinWaveMaxRepetitions(*)ActualRepCapacitanceOutOfBandChannel
micrometermicrometermicrometerpF
N III 2P3/2-2P1/2blue3B3A57.33056.96457.733120.14Noprime
-red103R1-170.849173.185120.14Noparallel
O I 3P1-3P2blue2B3A63.18562.86563.526120.14Noprime
-red102R1-188.563190.564120.14Noparallel
O I 3P0-3P1red104R1145.535143.877147.334240.14Noprime
-blue4B2A-71.95073.6692--Yes, partlyparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.0
SPG pipeline products creation date:2016-07-24T08:37:38.526000 TAI (1848040658526000)
Mission configuration:MC_H60ASTR_P58ASTR_S60ASTR_RP
Processed to level:RED: 2.0 BLUE: 2.0
Quality Control:PASSED
Action:NONE

Quality comments

The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  2.74" in the dispersion direction.
If the target is point-like and is offset from the centre of a spaxel in the dispersion direction, the spectral line 
profiles will develop a skew. This skewed Gaussian profile becomes more extreme as the offset increases. 
Be aware that this can be confused with real velocity structure.
This will affect spectra from a single spaxel of a rebinned cube (products with filenames "..hps3dr[r|b].."), 
and combined spaxel-spectra, i.e. added rebinned cube spaxels, or single spaxels from an interpolated or projected cube
(products with filenames "..hps3di[r|b].." or "..hps3dp[r|b].."). See the "PACS Handbook" for more information.