Observation Summary

OBSID:1342217799
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:Calibration_RPSpecFlux_1-RPSpecFlux_611B_StdSED_nochop_sedb2b_VestaOff_0001
Proposal:Calibration_rppacs_74
Target:4 Vesta off OD686
Actual RA:20h 3m 31.79s
Actual Dec.:-19° 1' 54.19''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:---
OD:686
Start:2011-03-31T17:54:58.000000 TAI (1680285298000000)
Duration:669.0 seconds (incl. spacecraft on-target slew time)

AOT and instrument configuration:

AOT:PacsRangeSpec
Mode:Pointed, unchopped grating scan
Bands:B2B R1 (prime diffraction orders selected)
Sampling:Nyquist (with spectral dithering if range repetition > 1)
Nod cycles:1

Observation block summary

Name(*)CameraIDBand(*)ReqWaveMin(*)ReqWaveMax(*)WaveMinWaveMaxRepetitions(*)ActualRepCapacitanceOutOfBandChannel
micrometermicrometermicrometermicrometerpF
SED B2Bred102R1140.000220.000139.594210.298120.14Noprime
-blue2B2B--69.814105.195120.14Yes, partlyparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.0
SPG pipeline products creation date:2016-07-25T02:43:44.570000 TAI (1848105824570000)
Mission configuration:MC_H67_P62_S62_CAL
Processed to level:RED: 2.0 BLUE: 2.0
Quality Control:PASSED
Action:NONE

Quality comments

Off source observation in an unchopped range-scan pair; matched with the on-source observation 1342217798
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  2.88" 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.