Observation Summary

OBSID:1342248675
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:PSpecR-Per-emb21-B2B
Proposal:GT1_rvavrek_1
Target:Per-emb21
Actual RA:3h 29m 10.5s
Actual Dec.:31° 18' 20.66''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:1342248672,1342248673,1342248674,1342248675,1342248676,1342248677
OD:1172
Start:2012-07-29T05:14:17.000000 TAI (1722230057000000)
Duration:2652.0 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 B2Bred102R1140.000220.000139.585210.285420.14Noprime
-blue2B2B--69.810105.189420.14Yes, partlyparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.2
SPG pipeline products creation date:2017-01-18T08:39:11.794000 TAI (1863419951794000)
Mission configuration:MC_H100ASTR_P70ASTR_S66ASTR_RP
Processed to level:RED: 2.5 BLUE: 2.5
Quality Control:PASSED
Action:NONE

Quality comments

Normally, for this observation the background spectrum is subtracted using its related off-source observation, and the results placed in Level 2.5. However, due to an oversight this was not done in SP 14.0. You can use a Useful script in HIPE to do this instead. The problem will be fixed in the 14.2 SPG products.
On source observation in an unchopped range-scan pair; matched with the off-source observation 1342248673
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  2.39" 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.