Observation Summary

OBSID:1342230146
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:Aquila-PACSS-off-Range2
Proposal:OT1_pandre_4
Target:Aquila-sub-fil-off-1
Actual RA:18h 32m 5.43s
Actual Dec.:-4° 6' 5.67''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:1342230145,1342230146
OD:874
Start:2011-10-05T11:47:26.000000 TAI (1696506446000000)
Duration:534.0 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
Range 2blue2B3A61.50064.50061.32464.605520.14Noprime
-red102R1--183.935193.796520.14Noparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.0
SPG pipeline products creation date:2016-07-26T03:16:39.762000 TAI (1848194199762000)
Mission configuration:MC_H88ASTR_P67ASTR_S63ASTR_HPSDB
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 1342230145
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  1.93" 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.