Observation Summary

OBSID:1342246655
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:Calibration_RPSpecFlux_1-RPSpecFlux_611B_StdSED_nochop_sedb2a_NeptuneOff_r03
Proposal:Calibration_rppacs_142
Target:Neptun Off OD1118
Actual RA:22h 20m 36.89s
Actual Dec.:-10° 56' 37.56''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:---
OD:1118
Start:2012-06-05T14:54:38.000000 TAI (1717599278000000)
Duration:339.0 seconds (incl. spacecraft on-target slew time)

AOT and instrument configuration:

AOT:PacsRangeSpec
Mode:Pointed, unchopped grating scan
Bands:B2A 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 B2Ared102R1102.000146.000101.468146.519120.14Noprime
-blue2B2A--50.65373.261120.14Yes, partlyparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.0
SPG pipeline products creation date:2016-07-27T09:33:41.111000 TAI (1848303221111000)
Mission configuration:MC_H100ASTR_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 1342246654
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  1.72" 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.