Observation Summary

OBSID:1342243870
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:PACS-M17-off-RED
Proposal:OT1_epeeters_1
Target:M17 off
Actual RA:18h 30m 18.87s
Actual Dec.:-16° 13' 1.42''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:---
OD:1059
Start:2012-04-07T20:47:54.000000 TAI (1712522874000000)
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 B2Bred102R1140.000220.000139.595210.301120.14Noprime
-blue2B2B--69.815105.196120.14Yes, partlyparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.0
SPG pipeline products creation date:2016-07-27T04:14:28.186000 TAI (1848284068186000)
Mission configuration:MC_H98ASTR_P69ASTR_S66ASTR_RP
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 1342243869
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  1.77" 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.