Observation Summary

OBSID:1342250579
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:PSpecR-Oph-OFF-B2A-1
Proposal:GT1_rvavrek_1
Target:Oph OFF-2-1
Actual RA:16h 35m 5.31s
Actual Dec.:-25° 13' 53.89''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:1342250579,1342250580,1342250581,1342250582
OD:1209
Start:2012-09-04T10:36:09.000000 TAI (1725446169000000)
Duration:1329.0 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 B2Ared102R1102.000146.000101.450146.650420.14Noprime
-blue2B2A--50.64473.327420.14Yes, partlyparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.2
SPG pipeline products creation date:2017-01-17T12:46:57.359000 TAI (1863348417359000)
Mission configuration:MC_H100ASTR_P70ASTR_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 1342250581
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  1.85" 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.