Observation Summary

OBSID:1342229708
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:Calibration_RPSpecFlux_1-RPSpecFlux_433G_StdSED_B3A_UnChop_RDor_0001
Proposal:Calibration_rppacs_101
Target:R Dor
Actual RA:4h 36m 45.32s
Actual Dec.:-62° 4' 37.33''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:[1342229708, 1342229709]
OD:863
Start:2011-09-24T11:07:24.000000 TAI (1695553644000000)
Duration:867.0 seconds (incl. spacecraft on-target slew time)

AOT and instrument configuration:

AOT:PacsRangeSpec
Mode:Pointed, unchopped grating scan
Bands:B3A 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 B3Ared102R1140.000219.000139.568219.195120.14Noprime
-blue2, 3B2A,B3A--50.19775.767110.14Yes, partlyparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.0
SPG pipeline products creation date:2017-01-14T10:14:12.321000 TAI (1863080052321000)
Mission configuration:MC_H88ASTR_P67ASTR_S63ASTR_RP
Processed to level:RED: 2.5 BLUE: 2.5
Quality Control:PASSED
Action:NONE

Quality comments

On source observation in an unchopped range-scan pair; matched with the off-source observation 1342229709
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  2.21" 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.